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The once-thriving Tijeras Pueblo was situated at the junction of two canyons, one north-south and one east-west, within easy reach of a number of different ecoregions, as well as on a boundary between two distinct culture areas, the Pueblo to the west...

On Monday, April 19, 2021 – nearly three months following his inauguration as the 46th President of the United States – Joe Biden issued a memo directing the nation’s two largest immigration enforcement agencies, Customs and Border Protection, and...

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 University of New Mexico Department of Anthropology celebrates Hispanic Heritage Month, September 15 through October 15, 2021. The department website features a page full of resources for Hispanic Heritage Month, including its history, information on Hispanic heritage programming this month, events and Hispanic scholars and their work...

Lobos are invited to join others across the country and the National Constitution Center for a Constitution Day Celebration. Constitution Day, also known as Citizenship Day, is an American holiday honoring the day 39 delegates to the Constitutional...

As part of Hispanic Heritage Month, University Communication and Marketing (UCAM) will publish a series of stories highlighting immigration issues and concerns. The series is titled Immigration: A Look at the Issues. To help set the background for the...

When Felisa Smith, professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at The University of New Mexico, explains what her new book is about, she quotes Churchill and Shakespeare. The book, Mammalian Paleoecology: Using the Past to...

Research recently published by adjunct assistant professor Cyler Conrad from the Department of Anthropology at The University of New Mexico examines the importance of turkeys to the Ancestral Pueblo people and how they have managed the birds for more than...

After 25 years at the University of Utah, The University of New Mexico's Center for Stable Isotopes has been given a unique opportunity to develop future leaders in science from across the country – and around the world. Started by Professors Jim...

UNM Postdoctoral Fellow of Anthropology April Kamp-Whittaker has been awarded the prestigious NSF SPARC Grant and an American Philosophical Society Franklin Research Grant. Kamp-Whittaker is using the NSF SPARC Grant to develop a ArcGIS StoryMap...