Photo by Shawn Miller, Library of Congress

Critically-acclaimed poet and former UNM student and faculty member Joy Harjo is the new United States Poet Laureate – the first Native American to hold the position.  “It’s not just me carrying this title, it has to do with my family, my people, this...

Two researchers at The University of New Mexico recently received an award of more than $580,000 from the Army Research Office for a project named Supersymmetry in Optics: Beyond Traditional Supersymmetric Quantum Mechanics, an eye-watering title to the...

This week on New Mexico in Focus, senior producer Matt Grubs has a serious conversation with Sen. Tom Udall about the very real possibility the United States may go to war with Iran. Sen. Udall has been outspoken in opposing what he calls a rush to war....

Researchers at the University of New Mexico School of Engineering are partnering with a popular state attraction to collect data. On June 12, they installed two wireless sensors on top of Sandia Peak in collaboration with Sandia Peak Tramway. Fernando...

Students from the UNM-Gallup TRIO programs recently attended the Martin Luther King Jr. 2019 Youth Leadership Conference in Albuquerque. Students who are participants in the TRIO Lobo Academy summer bridge program, TRIO Student Support Services, and TRIO...

The UNM Center for Regional Studies will host visiting scholars Vanessa Fonseca-Chavez, right, and Tracy Brown as they carry out research projects this summer through the center’s Scholar-in-Residence initiative. Fonseca-Chávez is an assistant professor of English at Arizona State University. Brown is a professor of anthropology in the Department of Sociology, Anthropology and Social Work at Central Michigan University.