It wasn’t raining Saturday morning, but rainbows were everywhere. Thousands gathered along Central Avenue on Saturday to celebrate the city’s annual PrideFest.
UNM is ready to go face to face with the owner of the south campus lots the University hopes to develop.
The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday morning voted 5-4 to overturn the Defense of Marriage Act passed in 1996. Many have taken to Twitter to show their support for the court’s decision.
After signing an agreement with online course provider Coursera last month, UNM is in the process of developing more online classes for students.
For Gene Henley, the road to success is not a straight line. “How many ways can I go from Albuquerque to Santa Fe?” he said. “I could drive, take a plane, ride a hot air balloon. I could even ride a pogo stick backwards and be the first man to do so.”
A vuvuzela echoed in front of the Bookstore Thursday night as UNM students gathered in solidarity with recent protests in Brazil.
In an effort to prove its commitment to transparency and to its code of ethics, UNM continues to develop its newly established Compliance Office.
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.
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.
In a presentation at a Board of Regents meeting Tuesday morning, Andrew Cullen, associate vice president of the Office of Planning and Budget Analysis, said the University has an outstanding balance of $575.7 million with regard to its projects’ bonds. He said the University expects to pay the outstanding balance by 2036, although future projects might still result to more debt in the future.
A mountain bike leaned on Kate Krause’s desk in her office in Mesa Vista Hall on Friday morning. Krause said when she had a smaller workload, she and her husband loved to go hiking in the mountains.
UNM libraries look to turn a new page as they search for a solution to their mounting problems of overcrowded bookshelves and fewer students checking out books.
UNM’s Health Sciences Center has developed a new strategic plan to accommodate future changes in the state’s health care sector. According to a presentation made by Vice Chancellor for Research Richard Larson at a UNMH Board of Directors meeting on Friday, the HSC aims to “make more progress in health and health equity than any other state by 2020.”
Austin Evans is one of five UNM students who will get to spend the fall semester in Washington D.C. as a congressional intern.
The Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity building sits vacant after the University revoked the fraternity’s charter on May 24 for violations of the UNM Student Code of Conduct. SAE has until Wednesday to appeal the revocation to the dean of students. But if the appeal is denied, what will happen to the vacant fraternity building?
Seattle-based company Tomato Assault made a stop in Albuquerque on Saturday and hosted a food fight involving about 40,000 tomatoes and 200 people. The event, which one of the organizers described as “meaningless fun for a meaningful cause,”
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