The ASUNM election commission's voter outreach program is continuing as planned despite the Presidential Appointments Committee's unexpected rejection of interim election commissioner Julianita Maestas last week.
First-year students in the UNM School of Medicine paid tribute to 24 people who donated their bodies for use in anatomy classes during a Sunday memorial service at Alumni Chapel.
Opposition forces claimed to have broken the back of the Taliban military Sunday after a weekend of fierce fighting that left the Islamic regime bracing for an attack on the capital city of Kabul.
UNM ranks fifth as a high-impact university in materials science, according to the Institute for Scientific Information, which used an index to measure the number of times a paper from the University was cited by other researchers.
In the face of apathy and strong pro-war sentiments, protesters continue to sponsor demonstrations Fridays on or near campus.
State leaders urged people to support the military and denounced anti-war sentiment at UNM and other college campuses during a "Rally for America" on Lower Johnson Field Sunday.
A program coordinator warns it's no James Bond 101, but has high expectations for a new, rigorous intelligence studies program being proposed at UNM.
The UNM Dramatic Writing Program is presenting Words Afire: The Edmund New Works Festival Friday.
In an effort to empower the community to speak against war in Afghanistan and seek peaceful solutions to terrorism, several organizations are sponsoring a teach-in tonight in Dane Smith Hall.
The City Council recently implemented a $35,000 pilot program to pay the overtime salaries for a core squad of police officers responding to parties where underage drinking is suspected.
When UNM freshman Kevin Johns died two weeks ago as a result of alcohol poisoning, he became another example of college students battling socially accepted yet excessive alcohol-related behavior.
A state representative who sponsored a bill that allows people to carry concealed weapons traced its labyrinthine path from committee to the governor's desk during a UNM College Republicans meeting Wednesday.
In the event of a bioterrorist attack using a deadly and contagious disease such as smallpox, public health officials want to be able to close roads and airports, herd people into stadiums, and, if necessary, quarantine entire infected cities.
UNM student organizations had a bumper crop of ASUNM Senate candidates to choose from during this semester's endorsement forum Tuesday.
The 18 states involved in the landmark Microsoft antitrust case reached a split decision Tuesday as nine accepted the settlement between the software giant and the Justice Department, and the others vowed to press on for tougher sanctions.
Former UNM student Ben Tucker was prepared to defend himself in district court today against charges of inciting a riot in connection with a Sept. 21 anti-war protest that began outside the University bookstore.
Katie Sierra, a 15-year-old sophomore at Sissonvile High School in West Virginia, was told by circuit judge James Stacy that she could not form an anarchy club or wear T-shirts opposing bombing of Afghanistan, according to the Nov. 2 Albuquerque Journal.
Paul Steele, a professor of corrections sociology at UNM, says he has visited prisons, walked the corridors of psychiatric wards, sat in electric chairs and stood in gas chambers in an attempt to gain an understanding of his field.
A group of UNM professors and a nationally-known economist will discuss free trade and current U.S. economic policy on campus today.
A four-year dispute between the campus police union and the University's Human Resources office continues, as their latest round of court-ordered mediation ended at impasse in late October.
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