When Natalie Stopka, a 2023 MFA graduate of The University of New Mexico, walks into her garden in Yonkers, New York, she’s not just looking for inspiration, she’s harvesting her next palette.

After five hotly-contested preliminary rounds last week, the LoboBites finalists have been announced. The graduate students listed below will compete Thursday, Nov. 13 for a chance to win up to $1,000 in scholarship prizes at UNM's premier graduate...

UNM-Valencia faculty member Tammi Duncan-Teller will receive the 2025 Two-Year College Biology Teacher Award from the National Association of Biology Teachers (NABT).

John Russell sits in the car built by the 2004 LOBOMotorsports team.

From left to right: John Russell, director of LoboMotorsports, stands with students Benjamin Gannon, Victoria Udall, and Jose Garcia, and donor Jim King at a Mechanical Engineering Scholar and Donor Luncheon, last spring.

John Russell, wearing the blue jacket, grew the program from a one-semester course in automotive design into a three-semester senior design capstone program.

A team from the late 1990s constructs the frame of an FSAE car out of wood.

John Russell, wearing the red shirt on the left, has run the FormulaSAE program at UNM since 1998.

After more than 30 years with The University of New Mexico School of Engineering, John Russell, director of the LOBOMotorsports Formula SAE (FSAE) program and professor of mechanical engineering, will retire in May 2026. A $1 million gift from Jim and...