The Center for Academic Program Support, a free campus tutoring service, is improving freshmen retention rates and raising grade point averages for its users, according to the center's usage reports from last year.
UNM student Lorenzo Jon Ireland says that his surroundings, Harlem Renaissance poet Langston Hughes and rapper KRS-One inspire him to write poetry
Senior Lorin Yannarell, left, talks with senior Scott Larrichio, a member of THC of UNM outside Zimmerman Library Thursday. The group was seeking support in its campaign to legalize marijuana.
Five members of the New Mexico Disaster Medical Assistance Team headed to Salt Lake City to provide medical care for the 2002 Winter Olympics. The team departed from Albuquerque on Thursday and will return Feb 25.
While UNM maintains one of the most high profile and extensive Latin American and Iberian research collections in the world, staff members are working to make sure people on campus know it exists.
Lee Vigil, who owns the burrito stand by Mitchell Hall with his wife, Stella, says he knew she was the one the first time he laid eyes on her.
Researchers at the UNM Institute for Social Research are members of a newly formed workgroup focused on helping to control gun violence in Bernalillo County.
The ASUNM Steering and Rules Committee passed amendments that would more clearly define the penalty for illegally stuffing advertisements in a publication and clarify rules regarding conflicts of interest in court cases during its Wednesday meeting.
UNM students questioned the government's role in the war on terrorism and the campaign's cost during a discussion sponsored by African American Student Services Wednesday.
University administrators told the Board of Regents Tuesday that they were hopeful about UNM's legislative funding but added that next year's budget remained impossible to predict.
Families and health professionals gathered at First Choice Clinic Tuesday to fight a legislative movement to cut state Medicaid funding that they say would hurt New Mexico children.
El Centro de la Raza is sponsoring a lecture series focusing on indigenous cultures in Central and South America that begins tonight in the center's Mesa Vista Hall conference room.
Numerous UNM students say they will do anything to avoid having to use the restrooms in Mitchell Hall, but the relatively new facilities in Dane Smith Hall got high marks for cleanliness and design.
Weekly social hours, camping trips and garage giveaways are just some of what the University offers to help settle international students into their new lives at UNM.
The key to building and maintaining a successful program is recruiting good players and the UNM football team hopes this year's newcomers will help fill in some more pieces of the puzzle.
The Senate Finance Committee voted on Sunday to send another state budget to Gov. Gary Johnson. Republicans warned he wouldn't like it any better than the first.
Northern Arizona University's Matt Harper cheers after scoring on UNM in the Outpost ice skating rink Saturday. The Lobos rallied for a 5-4 win, splitting the weekend series with the Lumberjacks.
UNM graduate student Willie Richardson, who operates the Peace Corps recruitment office on campus, says the program offers exposure for countries that otherwise get no attention from the rest of the world.
Campus residents can eat gumbo, throw beads and solve a murder mystery during tonight's "Lundi Gras" celebration, sponsored by the Residence Hall Association.
Students interested in delving beyond coursework into their fields of study can choose from an array of academic organizations catering to just about every branch of study at UNM.
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