Schools and Colleges

Students on campus may have encountered a change in their visual surroundings recently when crossing Smith Plaza or walking by the McKinnon Center for Management. On the north side of Zimmerman Library, a whimsical large-scale sculpture titled Stone,...

Anna Nogar, associate professor of Hispanic Southwest Studies in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at The University of New Mexico, became interested in the intriguing story of a 17th century cloistered Spanish nun in her undergrad years 20 years...

Living in the “new normal” is going to take new ideas, new products, and new entrepreneurs. And the Rainforest Pitch Competition is where to find them. The event will be an all-virtual this fall, but the prizes will be real!   UNM’s Innovation Academy...

The Department of Education awarded the University of New Mexico Los Alamos (UNM-LA) branch campus more than $2.3 million in funding under the Developing Hispanic-Serving Institutions Program to help build strong STEM academic and career pathways for...

The day after a rare snowstorm hit the state in early September with snow, cold, and gusts up to 70 mph, The University of New Mexico student Jenna McCullough received an email with a report of dead birds at the Tijeras ranger station. It was her first...

Campus faculty and administrative leaders are exploring ways to improve mandatory Title IX reporting policies at The University of New Mexico. An upcoming panel discussion will look at UNM and national efforts to improve support to those who experience...

His enthusiasm and colorful words often fill the seats of vacant lecture halls - now those words have University of New Mexico Professor Len Kravitz recognized by a premiere organization in exercise science, the American College of Sports Medicine...

A new report on biological collections from The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine points to the need for sustainability, digitization, recruitment of a diverse workforce, and infrastructure upgrades to meet the challenges now...

In 2015, professors Blair Wolf and Chris Witt from The University of New Mexico Biology department traveled to Peru to examine how hummingbirds survived the extreme Andes Mountains temperatures. Witt received a National Science Foundation grant to...

There are only a few weeks left until Election Day in November but there is still time to register to vote and to get a mail-in ballot for those who prefer not to vote at a polling place. Student turnout has been on the rise nationwide and this year’s...