Schools and Colleges

UNM-Taos has increased enrollment for so many consecutive semesters, it seemed inevitable to sustain such dramatic numbers. It was beginning to look like 2013 might be that long-overdue time of reckoning. All across the nation, colleges and ...

If all goes well more than 4,000 students are headed toward graduation at UNM this spring. But if you are a senior how do you know you have the critical analytical skills employers say they are looking for? 

Launching Black History Month, the University of New Mexico Africana Studies recently hosted a brunch in the Student Union Building featuring keystone speaker Sybrina Fulton, the mother of slain Florida teen Trayvon Martin. Before the event that took ...

The debate over the age of the Grand Canyon has carried on for more than 140 years with several different scenarios bandied about over the decades. Some scientists say the canyon is some 70 million years old, while others believe it is much younger – l

As the spring semester gets underway at the University of New Mexico, the State Legislature is reviewing the parameters of the Legislative Lottery Scholarship. Students in higher education across New Mexico are keenly interested in the impending ...

Higher education came before the House Appropriations and Finance Committee this afternoon, in what can best be described as the "Tale of Two Formulas" or the "Battle of the Funding Formula."  

The exhibition, “Business of Childhood,” features a treasure trove of toys and the books that explain the business behind them. All grace the cases at the entrance to Parish Memorial Library, UNM’ s business and economics library. Nancy Bennett, ...

Student Special Events hosts "Red Party," a celebration of UNM’s cherry-silver theme with all things red - food, drinks, lighting and red attire - on Wednesday, Feb. 19 from 8 - 11 p.m. in the Student Union Building.  This evening celebration of ...

Deans, administrators and interested faculty members are beginning to think about what UNM does and how it relates to long term economic goals for the university. 

The discovery of 4.5 million year-old Ardipithecus ramidus in Ethiopia and its detailed analysis sheds significant light on the question of when our early ancestors began to walk on two legs. C. Owen Lovejoy, professor of anthropology at Kent State Uni