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The University of New Mexico Provost/Vice President for Academic Affairs announced its annual award winners to several staff members and an outstanding work group for extraordinary service. The Provost Committee for Staff awarded the 2022 Outstanding...

The University of New Mexico’s English Department is launching its Graduate Certificate in Technical and Professional Communication (GCERT TPC) this month. Now open to applicants, the 15-credit certificate is designed to prepare community members who...

University of New Mexico Professor Hugh Witemeyer died after a short illness on. Born June 10, 1939, Witemeyer died on May 1, 2022, a little over a month short of his 83rd birthday.   He is survived his wife of 35 years, Barbara Ellen Watkins...

Starting this weekend, the Millicent Rogers Museum in Taos will present Following the Manito Trail–a cultural heritage exhibition that shares the largely untold histories of nine Hispanic New Mexican families from Taos County with public audiences.  The...

English Professor and Associate Dean of Graduate Studies Jesse Alemán has been named the 2022 Willa Cather Distinguished Lecturer at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Sponsored by the Cather Project, the UNL English Department, and endowment funds...

University of New Mexico English Assistant Professor Nahir Otaño Gracia was recently awarded the 2022 Article Prize for her article Towards a decentered Global North Atlantic: Blackness in Saga af Tristram ok Ísodd.

U.S Poet Laureate Joy Harjo, an alumna of The University of New Mexico, will be the featured speaker at the 10th annual Rudolfo and Patricia Anaya Lecture on the Literature of the Southwest sponsored by the UNM English Department. The event is Tuesday,...

The basic definition for the Spanish language word querencia is a metaphysical concept taken from the verb querer, which means "to want” or “to love." But the reality of querencia is more complicated, more poetic and sentimental, seated in deep emotions...

J Gourdin, a senior student success specialist at The University of New Mexico African American Student Services, will present poems they created in a spoken word presentation for the City of Albuquerque Juneteenth celebration this weekend. The holiday...

The University of New Mexico’s College of Arts and Sciences recently announced its new Regents’ Professors for the Annual Years 2022-2024. Regents’ Professor is a special title bestowed on selected full professors who, in the judgment of the dean, and...