The New Mexico women’s basketball team will have a step up in competition next season. Several big names including Texas, Arkansas, Colorado, Stanford, Miami and Texas Tech fill the Lobos’ nonconference schedule.
Places build up history over time, just as much as they change over time. When looking at old photographs of the University, maybe it’s hard to imagine that the images even depict the same place at all.
Any time is a good time to be full of pride. Albuquerque Pride will host its 37th annual PrideFest this Saturday, the biggest celebration of LGBTQ rights in New Mexico.
The summer semester marches on, and $14 summer movies continue to blockbust (with the exception of “After Earth,” which just bust). But worry not, because even if you spent the last of your couch-cushion quarters on a “had-to-see-it” summer flick, The Weekly Free is here to feed your culture fix while you save up for round two.
Two weeks ago, local sketch artist Brandt Peters launched his first project on Kickstarter – two hours later, donators blew past his goal of $6500.
Robert George Frank sat on a chair in his office in Scholes Hall on a cloudy Friday afternoon. He had just been asked what the best thing about leading UNM is. Perhaps puzzled, his forehead furrowed a little.
The beginning of June marked the end of the first year of the administration of President Robert Frank, the first three-time UNM alumnus to become the University’s president.
A year after UNM President Robert Frank was appointed to office, the University and legislators have yet to find a solution that will preserve the Lottery Scholarship for future students.
UNM can now follow its president on Twitter. UNM President Robert Frank said he manages his own Twitter account to reach out to the campus community.
“Dear obese Ph.D. applicants: if you didn’t have the willpower to stop eating carbs, you won’t have the willpower to do a dissertation #truth.” This hateful, hurtful and deeply inaccurate statement is the work of UNM professor Geoffrey Miller.
Editor, Just like the front of a box of crayons, the GOP has once again shown their true colors. As legislation to prevent student loan interest rates from automatically doubling on July 1 goes down the tubes, the Republican chair of the House Education and Workforce Committee acknowledges that President Obama must submit to a GOP deal or take the blame for interest rates doubling.
Free Art Friday is an effort by hundreds of artists to re-acquaint urban dwellers with serendipity by scattering free-to-take artwork throughout cities across the globe.
On paper, this might have been the best season in New Mexico baseball history. The Lobos earned their highest national ranking in team history
Bang! Pow! Biff! This weekend is the much-lauded Albuquerque Comic Expo, where you can meet dozens of celebrities among throngs of fans, all looking for ways to spend their money on the latest nerd memorabilia.
Comic book nerds, film buffs, anime fans, video gamers and more will all come together under one roof this weekend to celebrate all things geeky.
It must be summer. The highs are reaching 99 and the lows don’t exist. So, in the interest of keeping everybody cool, I have compiled a short list of things one can do to avoid overheating in the desert this summer.
Three UNM athletes will compete in their home countries’ track and field championships this week. Triple jumper Floyd Ross and long jumper Alesha Walker, both recent UNM graduates, will travel to Drake Stadium in Des Moines, Iowa, and participate in the USA Outdoor Track & Field Championships.
This is the third year in a row that UNM has been included on “The Princeton Review’s Guide to 322 Green Colleges,” which focuses on institutions that have shown a commitment to sustainability and the environment. The listing reflects the ongoing efforts of the University and its faculty, staff and students in creating a more energy efficient and greener place of learning.
UNM has developed LoboAchieve, an online advisement program that will allow instructors, advisers and students themselves to actively monitor progress toward the students’ academic degrees. The program is set to go live for all students Aug. 1.
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