New Mexico's First Lady, Dee Johnson, says the number of babies and young children exposed to poisons is on the rise, which prompted the governor to declare March "New Mexico Poison Awareness Month."
Here are your choices for college spring break. You could spend the whole time lying on the beach with friends. Or you could work the midnight shift feeding people, standing on your feet for eight hours every day.
State Roswell shooter has history of mental illness ROSWELL, N.M. (AP) - Roswell's fire chief and a 3-year-old boy remained in a Texas hospital Tuesday - three days after they survived a shooting spree that left three other people dead.
Budget-brushers rejoice. Dental hygiene students at the University need clinical practice and dirty mouths - reliable ones.
The recent decision to return the grade point average requirement for the UNM Bridge Scholarship to 2.5 could result in an enrollment increase of nearly 250 freshmen in fall 2001, University officials say.
Professor William Julius Wilson, a prominent social science professor from Harvard University, will be speaking about the causes of racial tension Thursday at 3:30 p.m. in the Kiva Lecture Hall.
Middle school student teacher Luke Cordova says that keeping his pupils focused on academics during a time when they are becoming aware of their social lives is tough.
Gubernatorial candidate Bill Richardson pledged to support programs at UNM's Health Sciences Center during a tour of north campus Monday, calling the institution a strong economic building block that has been overlooked.
The goal is 21 smokeless days and nights for UNM staff and students who signed up for a Smoke Stoppers class on Monday.
UNM community leaders are concerned for the University's future and were saddened to hear that President Bill Gordon will retire this summer.
The drive to maintain a strong, positive vision for UNM's future ultimately nudged President Bill Gordon out the door after 24 years at the University and four in its top job.
The UNM baseball team ended its longest homestand of the season in impressive fashion with a sweep of the University of Utah after defeating the Utes 13-12 Sunday.
The UNM Agora Crisis Center will be receiving 5 percent of all Wild Oats Market's sales today from the company's three Albuquerque locations.
Middle and high school students patiently stood by colorful, homemade three-panel displays, waiting to show off their science fair projects to the public Saturday at Johnson Gym.
Members of the New Mexico Green Party, which lost its major party status after the 2000 presidential elections, say they plan to regain it - not in the courts, but by "taking it to the people."
This summer I will complete my fourth year as UNM President and my twenty-fourth year as a member of the UNM community. After long and careful consideration, I have come to the conclusion that this is a good time for me to step down from the presidency and to close out my career at UNM. To that end, I have informed Regent Willard of my intention to retire from the University during the summer of 2002.
On the heels of UNM President Bill Gordon's retirement announcement Thursday, speculation and concern are abundant over who should take his place.
With expenses like tuition, housing and books, college students don't usually have the money it takes to travel around the world.
David W. Bernstein, professor and head of the music department at Mills College, Oakland, Calif. will be interviewed for the Fine Arts dean position today at UNM. Bernstein is the first of five candidates to be interviewed for the position and each presentation will be in the Rodey Auditorium from 10-10:45 a.m.
Embattled Congressman Gary Condit lost his bid for an eighth term, indelibly tainted by his involvement with a 24-year-old former intern who vanished in Washington, D.C., last spring.
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