Schools and Colleges

Big Brothers Big Sisters is launching a new mentoring program, mentor2.0, currently working to place mentors with ninth grade students at South Valley Academy. The goal is to match every incoming freshman at the school with a mentor.Mentor2.0 is a twist ...

After a nationwide search, four finalists have been selected for the position of Dean, Honors and University Colleges. The finalists include: Keith Garbutt, dean of the honors College, West Virginia University; Catherine (Kate) Krause, interim dean, ...

This week, New Mexico in Focus dissects the 2013 Legislature's two biggest bills, the budget and the capital outlay bill. They also look at notable vetoes and signatures by Gov. Susanna Martinez.New Mexico in Focus airs Friday, April 12 at 7 p.m. on ...

Regents at the University of New Mexico approved an innovative tuition model designed to promote student success, support faculty and academic initiatives, and align the University's budget with state funding formula requirements. It also provides ...

The University of New Mexico hosts the New Mexico Shared Knowledge Conference Tuesday-Thursday, April 16-18 in the UNM Student Union Building. The conference is a student-planned and organized state-wide event for students, faculty, staff and community ...

Norma Valenzuela, post doctoral fellow in the departments of Spanish and Portuguese and Chicano/Chicana Studies, presents, "The Sea, The Devil, and the Tutti Frutti Woman: Toward a U.S. Latina Transnational Imaginary in Frances Negrón-Muntaner, Lourdes ...

Developing cancer therapies that have minimal side-effects depends upon finding and killing only the cancer cells, leaving the healthy cells alone. To selectively kill cancer cells, a cross-institution team of researchers has developed a technique that ...

Afro-Dominican writer Loida Maritza Perez is the guest speaker at a talk, "Geographies of Home and Reflections on the Afro-Dominican Experience during the Haitian Massacre of 1937" on Tuesday, April 16, from 4-5:30 p.m. in Ortega Hall 335. Her ...

Margaret E. MontoyaUniversity of New Mexico School of Law Professor Margaret E. Montoya created one of the essays included in the National Park Service's "American Latinos and the Making of the United States: A Theme Study," which recognizes Latino ...

The film, "My Village, My Lobster," will be featured on Friday, April 12, at 3 p.m. in the Student Union Building Theater. The screening is free and open to the public."My Village, My Lobster" is a one-hour documentary film that tells the powerful and ...