When Michael Dougher arrived in New Mexico, he was only coming for an assistant professor position at UNM. Little did he know he would stay for more than three decades.
This week, Downtown became the arena for a showdown between pro-choice New Mexicans and an out-of-town pro-life group.
The first week of school is always a stressful event. As students scramble about to piece together a permanent semester schedule, buying textbooks often falls to the wayside. Allow this article to be a healthy reminder that not only should you buy textbooks for the semester, but you can do so in a cost-effective manner.
ASUNM elected Tyler Crawley as the president pro tempore at its emergency senate meeting Wednesday night. Crawley is one of six returning senators to ASUNM and has previously served as the group’s finance chair.
A new vice-chair comes to one of the Associated Students of the University of New Mexico’s senate committees as it gears up for the fall semester.
This semester, UNM’s student government will work to improve its student outreach.
On July 31, a police officer noticed a large break in a glass window at Woodward Hall. According to the police report, after removing the blinds and entering the officer observed loose computer cables on the floor.
For another year, UNM’s newest campus will continue to receive more taxpayer money. UNM West will continue to receive money from Rio Rancho, as city residents voted against a cut to the city’s higher education tax Tuesday in a special election.
UNM is working to improve veterans’ welfare on campus and in New Mexico. The University’s College of Nursing has been selected as one of six colleges to help train nurses to care for veterans via the Veterans Affairs Nursing Academic Partnership.
UNM students can expect a boost to the city’s entrepreneurial and startup scenes near UNM with the initiation of Innovate ABQ. In January, UNM President Robert Frank, along with other University officials, visited the University of Florida at Gainesville to survey its Innovation Square
Members of the UNM chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha, an intercollegiate fraternity for African-American students, practice stepping near Mesa Vista Hall on Monday.
UNM recently accepted millions of dollars to study diabetes. The National Institutes of Health and the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases awarded a $2.8 million grant to the UNM Health Sciences Center earlier this month.
What campus issue do you want to see the UNM administration address this school year?
A new needs-based microlending program at UNM will allow students to pay back their loans by doing well in school. UNM will collaborate with the New Mexico Educators Federal Credit Union on a program called “Powering Success: Micro Aid for Educational Achievement,”
UNM awarded more diplomas this year than in each of the past 24 years. According to a document from the office of the provost, the University’s six-year graduation rate, which is at 47.3 percent, is its highest since it first released numbers in 1989.
In less than two months, Albuquerque will have to decide whether to keep its current leader or to select a new one.
As the fall semester begins, UNM continues to push for more commercial spaces on south campus. At a Board of Directors of Lobo Development meeting held Friday morning, Amy Coburn, director of design and development for the Lobo Development Corporation, said UNM has hired Dekker/Perich/Sabatini, Bohannan Huston, Inc.
David Whitten stood beside an autoclave, a gray, box-shaped machine that looked like a top-load washing machine, in a laboratory in the Centennial Engineering Building Friday morning.
After more than a month of investigation, UNM has censured a controversial psychology professor for a fat-shaming post on Twitter.
UNM is working to improve campus safety in response to concerns from the African American community regarding hate crimes on campus.
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