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The University of New Mexico (UNM) is a public
Public

Public, adj, is of or pertaining to the people; relating to, or affecting, a nation, state, or community; opposed to Private sector; as, the public treasury, a road or lake....
 university
University

A university is an institution of higher education and research, which grants academic degrees in a variety of subjects. A university provides both undergraduate education and postgraduate education....
 in Albuquerque
Albuquerque, New Mexico

Albuquerque is the largest List of cities in the United States in the US state of New Mexico, United States. It is the county seat of Bernalillo County, New Mexico and is situated in the central part of the state, straddling the Rio Grande....
, New Mexico
New Mexico

New Mexico is a U. S. State located in the Southwestern United States of the United States. Inhabited by Native Americans in the United States populations for many centuries, it has also has been part of the Spanish Empire viceroyalty of New Spain, part of Mexico, and a U.S....
, USA. It was founded in 1889. It offers multiple bachelor's, master's, doctoral, and professional degree programs in all areas of the arts, sciences, and engineering. Its Albuquerque campus currently spreads over 600 acre
Acre

The acre is a Units of measurement of area in a number of different systems, including the Imperial unit#Measures of area and United States customary units#Units of area systems....
s (2.4 km²), and there are branch campus
Campus

A campus is traditionally the land on which a college or university and related institutional buildings are situated. Usually a campus includes library, lecture halls, residence halls and park-like settings....
es in Gallup
Gallup, New Mexico

Gallup is a city in McKinley County, New Mexico, New Mexico, United States. The population was 20,209 at the 2000 United States Census. It is the county seat of McKinley County, New Mexico....
, Los Alamos
Los Alamos, New Mexico

Los Alamos is a townsite and census-designated place in Los Alamos County, New Mexico, New Mexico, United States. The population of the CDP was 11,909 at the United States Census, 2000....
, Taos
Taos, New Mexico

Taos is a town in Taos County, New Mexico in the north-central region of New Mexico. In New Mexico, a municipality may call itself a village, town, or city ....
, and in Valencia County
Valencia County, New Mexico

Valencia County is a county located in the U.S. state of New Mexico. As of 2006, the population was 70,389. The county seat is Los Lunas, New Mexico....
.

main campus is located in central Albuquerque between Central Avenue on the south, Girard Boulevard on the east, Lomas Boulevard on the north, and University Boulevard on the west.






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The University of New Mexico (UNM) is a public
Public

Public, adj, is of or pertaining to the people; relating to, or affecting, a nation, state, or community; opposed to Private sector; as, the public treasury, a road or lake....
 university
University

A university is an institution of higher education and research, which grants academic degrees in a variety of subjects. A university provides both undergraduate education and postgraduate education....
 in Albuquerque
Albuquerque, New Mexico

Albuquerque is the largest List of cities in the United States in the US state of New Mexico, United States. It is the county seat of Bernalillo County, New Mexico and is situated in the central part of the state, straddling the Rio Grande....
, New Mexico
New Mexico

New Mexico is a U. S. State located in the Southwestern United States of the United States. Inhabited by Native Americans in the United States populations for many centuries, it has also has been part of the Spanish Empire viceroyalty of New Spain, part of Mexico, and a U.S....
, USA. It was founded in 1889. It offers multiple bachelor's, master's, doctoral, and professional degree programs in all areas of the arts, sciences, and engineering. Its Albuquerque campus currently spreads over 600 acre
Acre

The acre is a Units of measurement of area in a number of different systems, including the Imperial unit#Measures of area and United States customary units#Units of area systems....
s (2.4 km²), and there are branch campus
Campus

A campus is traditionally the land on which a college or university and related institutional buildings are situated. Usually a campus includes library, lecture halls, residence halls and park-like settings....
es in Gallup
Gallup, New Mexico

Gallup is a city in McKinley County, New Mexico, New Mexico, United States. The population was 20,209 at the 2000 United States Census. It is the county seat of McKinley County, New Mexico....
, Los Alamos
Los Alamos, New Mexico

Los Alamos is a townsite and census-designated place in Los Alamos County, New Mexico, New Mexico, United States. The population of the CDP was 11,909 at the United States Census, 2000....
, Taos
Taos, New Mexico

Taos is a town in Taos County, New Mexico in the north-central region of New Mexico. In New Mexico, a municipality may call itself a village, town, or city ....
, and in Valencia County
Valencia County, New Mexico

Valencia County is a county located in the U.S. state of New Mexico. As of 2006, the population was 70,389. The county seat is Los Lunas, New Mexico....
.

Campus

Unm, Mesa Vista Hall
The main campus is located in central Albuquerque between Central Avenue on the south, Girard Boulevard on the east, Lomas Boulevard on the north, and University Boulevard on the west. The North Campus, which includes the medical and law schools, is located on the north side of Lomas. The South campus is centered around the intersection of University Boulevard and Avenida César Chavez and includes most of UNM's athletic facilities.

The UNM campus is noted for its unique Pueblo Revival architectural style, introduced when the university's third president, William G. Tight
William G. Tight

William G. Tight was an United States geomorphology who became president of the University of New Mexico .Tight was one of the first to decipher the glacial drainage histories of the Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Ohio, Virginia and West Virginia area, specifically the long gone Teays River system and Glacial Lake Tight ....
, plastered over the Victorian-style Hodgin Hall to create a monument to Pueblo Indian culture. Vilified for his primitivism, Tight soon found himself removed from office. History would eventually vindicate him, however, as his vision found new life under the regime of university architect John Gaw Meem
John Gaw Meem

John Gaw Meem IV was an USA architect based in Santa Fe, New Mexico, New Mexico. He is best known for his instrumental role in the development and popularization of the Pueblo Revival style....
. Meem, a famed Santa Fe
Santa Fe, New Mexico

Santa Fe is the Capital of the U.S. state of New Mexico. It is the List of cities in New Mexico and is the county seat of . Santa Fe had a population of 62,203 at the United States Census, 2000; the estimate for July 1, 2006, is 72,056....
 architect, designed many university buildings in the pueblo style, including Zimmerman Library and Scholes Hall, and is credited with imbuing the campus with its distinctive Southwestern feel.

In recent years, UNM has undergone a comprehensive overhaul of many of its main campus buildings, including a $5.8 million renovation of the historic Communication and Journalism building. In addition to its remodeling efforts, UNM has added several new buildings to the campus such as the $42 million Centennial Engineering Center and a 108,000-square-foot Architecture and Planning building.

Academics


The University of New Mexico offers more than 215 degree and certificate programs, including 94 baccalaureate, 71 masters and 37 doctoral degrees.

The University of New Mexico School of Engineering is ranked 14th in the Princeton Review
The Princeton Review

The Princeton Review is an United States educational preparation company. It offers test preparation for standardized aptitude tests such as the SAT and advice regarding college admissions....
 Top 20 Graduate Engineering Programs. The Princeton Review also ranks the University of New Mexico at 14th in the nation for worst professors and 1st in the nation for least accessible professors.

For the 13th consecutive year, US News & World Report ranked the UNM School of Medicine in the top 15 primary care-oriented medical schools in the country. In its "America's Best Graduate Schools" issue for 2006, the UNM Health Sciences Center's curriculum received the following rankings: 5th in Rural Medicine, 3rd in Nursing Midwifery, 5th in Family Medicine, 6th in Primary Care, 5th in Community Health, 15th in Family Nurse Practitioner, and 23rd in Occupational Therapy. The University of New Mexico School of Law
University of New Mexico School of Law

The University of New Mexico School of Law, located in Albuquerque, New Mexico, is the only law school in the state of New Mexico. Approximately 350 students attend the school, with approximately 115 enrolled in the first-year class....
 is currently ranked 68th in the country and has steadily climbed in the USNews rankings. The Clinical Law program in particular is one of the best in the country according to US News & World Report, coming in at #5 nationwide. Also according to US News ranking the school is the 5th best graduate school in photography.

The University of New Mexico Model United Nations team is one of the top ranked teams in the country. They have won Multiple Awards at several different competitions, most notably the Harvard World Model United Competition in Geneva, Switzerland and Puebla, Mexico. They have also competed and won awards at the St. Mary's University Model Organization of American States Conference.

Athletics

Unm Lobo Logo
The school's athletic teams (known as the Lobos
Lobo (New Mexico Mascot)

The Lobo is the official mascot of the University of New Mexico. Lobo, the Spanish language word for "wolf," was suggested by George S. Bryan, a sophomore at UNM, in 1920....
) compete in the Mountain West Conference
Mountain West Conference

The Mountain West Conference , the youngest of the college athletic conferences affiliated with the National Collegiate Athletic Association?s Division I FBS , officially began operations in July 1999 in sports....
. The Lobo mascots are named Lobo Louie and Lobo Lucy. The official school colors are cherry and silver.

UNM maintains strong athletic rivalries with New Mexico State University
New Mexico State University

New Mexico State University, or NMSU, is a land-grant university that has its main campus in Las Cruces, New Mexico, New Mexico. The school was founded in 1888 as the Las Cruces College, an agricultural college, and in 1889 the school became "New Mexico College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts." It received its present name, New Mexico State...
. The UNM-NMSU rivalry is represented by the Rio Grande Rivalry
Rio Grande Rivalry

The Rio Grande Rivalry is an annual points-based intercollegiate athletics competition between the University of New Mexico and New Mexico State University....
, a series based on points awarded to the winners of head to head competitions between the two universities in every sport. A rotating trophy is granting to the winning university for a period of one year, until the award presentation the following year. The rivalry is celebrated at UNM by the Red Rally, a large bonfire that takes place the Thursday before the UNM-NMSU football game.

The Lobo basketball
New Mexico Lobo Basketball

The University of New Mexico Lobos men's basketball team represents the University of New Mexico in the Mountain West Conference in the NCAA Division I....
 team is famous for its venue, University Arena
University Arena

University Arena, more commonly known as The Pit, is a basketball only arena in Albuquerque, New Mexico on E Arena Dr SE @ Avenida Cesar Chavez & University Blvd SE with a capacity of 18,018....
, better known as "The Pit." The Pit may be best known as the site of the 1983 NCAA basketball championship, in which North Carolina State University
North Carolina State University

North Carolina State University at Raleigh is a public university, coeducational, extensive research university located in Raleigh, North Carolina, United States....
, coached by Jim Valvano
Jim Valvano

James Thomas Anthony Valvano , nicknamed Jimmy V, was an United States college basketball coach.While the head coach at North Carolina State University, he won the 1983 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament against high odds....
, upset the University of Houston
University of Houston

The University of Houston is a public, coeducational, research university located in Houston. It is the flagship institution and the central administrative headquarters of the University of Houston System—a state system of higher education which governs four separate universities and two multi-institution teaching centers....
. The Lobo football
New Mexico Lobo Football

The New Mexico Lobos football team is the interscholastic college football team at the University of New Mexico. The Lobos compete as a member of the Mountain West Conference....
 team plays at University Stadium, which is located across the street from the Pit.

The UNM football team has been to four bowl games in the past five years, visiting the Las Vegas Bowl
Las Vegas Bowl

The Las Vegas Bowl is an NCAA-sanctioned Division I-A post-season college football bowl game that has been played annually at 40,000-seat Sam Boyd Stadium in Las Vegas, Nevada since 1992....
 in 2002 and 2003 and the Emerald Bowl
Emerald Bowl

The Emerald Bowl is a post-season college football bowl game certified by the National Collegiate Athletic Association that has been played annually at 40,800-seat AT&T Park in San Francisco, California, since 2002....
 in 2004. Placekicker Katie Hnida
Katie Hnida

Katharine Anne Hnida, better known as Katie Hnida , on August 30, 2003, became the first woman to score in a National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I-A American football game....
 made history in the 2003 Las Vegas Bowl when she became the first woman to play in a NCAA Division I-A game, attempting but missing an extra point in the Lobos's 27-13 loss to UCLA
University of California, Los Angeles

The University of California, Los Angeles is a public research university located in Westwood, Los Angeles, California, California, United States....
. She later attempted and made two extra points in UNM's 72-8 victory over Texas State. New Mexico also lost its 2003 and 2004 bowl games, making its record in bowl games 2-8-1. The football team went to the first year of the New Mexico Bowl
New Mexico Bowl

The New Mexico Bowl is a NCAA sanctioned post-season bowl game played at University Stadium, Albuquerque on the campus of the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, New Mexico....
 in 2006 and lost to San Jose State University
San José State University

San Jos? State University is the founding campus of what became the California State University system. The sprawling 154-acre campus in the center of Silicon Valley has an enrollment of about 30,000 students and provides more graduates working in the high tech region than any other college or university....
, 20-12. In 2007 the Lobos finished the regular season 8-4 and were invited to the New Mexico Bowl for the second straight season. The Lobos shut out the favored Nevada Wolfpack 23-0 to win their first bowl game since the 1961 Aviation Bowl
Aviation Bowl

The Aviation Bowl was a post-season college football bowl game played at Welcome Stadium in Dayton, Ohio, on December 9, 1961. The University of New Mexico and Western Michigan University met in front of just over 3,500 fans....
.

The UNM Women's Basketball team has won the Mountain West championship for four of the past five years, and have gone to the NCAA Tournament for the past six consecutive years.

Both University Stadium and University Arena
University Arena

University Arena, more commonly known as The Pit, is a basketball only arena in Albuquerque, New Mexico on E Arena Dr SE @ Avenida Cesar Chavez & University Blvd SE with a capacity of 18,018....
 commenced intensive renovation projects in the first quarter of 2009.

Media

UNM owns and operates KUNM-FM
KUNM-FM

KUNM is a public radio radio station broadcasting on FM broadcasting 89.9 MHz from high atop Sandia Crest, with broadcasts originating from the third floor of O?ate Hall, on the campus of the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, New Mexico....
, one of two National Public Radio stations in Albuquerque. In 2008, KUNM-FM
KUNM-FM

KUNM is a public radio radio station broadcasting on FM broadcasting 89.9 MHz from high atop Sandia Crest, with broadcasts originating from the third floor of O?ate Hall, on the campus of the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, New Mexico....
 won 16 Associated Press awards, including Station of the Year. UNM also owns and operates the University of New Mexico Press, its publishing arm established in 1929. With Albuquerque Public Schools
Albuquerque Public Schools

Albuquerque Public Schools is a school district based in Albuquerque, New Mexico.Founded in 1891, the Albuquerque Public School District is the largest of 89 public school districts in the State of New Mexico....
, UNM also operates KNME-TV
KNME

KNME is a television station based in Albuquerque, New Mexico. It is a Public Broadcasting Service station, and broadcasts on channels 5, 9 and 35 that produces documentaries, shorts and weekly television series....
, Albuquerque's public television station. In 2008, KNME-TV
KNME

KNME is a television station based in Albuquerque, New Mexico. It is a Public Broadcasting Service station, and broadcasts on channels 5, 9 and 35 that produces documentaries, shorts and weekly television series....
 celebrated its 50 year anniversary. It currently broadcasts in High Definition Digital on two channels, english and spanish. The Daily Lobo is UNM's student-run daily newspaper and is an award-winning publication serving the metro area.

Notable people


Alumni

  • Edward Abbey
    Edward Abbey

    Edward Paul Abbey was an United States author and essayist noted for his advocacy of natural environment issues and criticism of public land policies....
     (1927-1989), author of The Monkey Wrench Gang
    The Monkey Wrench Gang

    The Monkey Wrench Gang is a novel written by United States author Edward Abbey , published in 1975.Easily Abbey's most famous fiction work, the novel concerns the use of sabotage to protest Natural environment damaging activities in the American Southwest, and was so influential that the term "monkeywrenching" has come to mean, besides...
     and other fictional works based in the Southwest
  • Rudolfo Anaya
    Rudolfo Anaya

    Rudolfo Anaya is a Mexican American author....
    , author of Bless Me, Ultima
    Bless Me, Ultima

    Bless Me, Ultima is a novel by Rudolfo Anaya, published in 1972. It is part of a trilogy along with Heart of Aztlan and Tortuga . It is included in the list of most commonly challenged books in the U.S....
     and other books of fiction based in New Mexico
  • , PhD & MSc Petroleum Engineering, Minister of Oil
    Petroleum

    Petroleum or crude oil is a naturally occurring, flammable liquid found in rock formations in the Earth consisting of a complex mixture of hydrocarbons of various molecular weights, plus other organic compounds....
    , Republic of Iraq
    Iraq

    Iraq , officially the Republic of Iraq , is a country in Western Asia spanning most of the northwestern end of the Zagros Mountains, the eastern part of the Syrian Desert and the northern part of the Arabian Desert....
     (April 2005 - January 2006)
  • John Willard Baker
    John Baker (runner)

    John Willard Baker was a runner for the University of New Mexico where he received his degree in physical education. After he graduated he became the first physical education teacher at John Baker Elementary in Albuquerque, New Mexico, New Mexico when it opened....
     (1944-1970) Lobo's WAC Mile Champion & two time Cross-Country Championship, Coach, Television movie A Shining Season
  • , president, California Polytechnic State University
    California Polytechnic State University

    California Polytechnic State University, also officially recognized as Cal Poly, is a nationally ranked, highly selective public university located in San Luis Obispo, California, United States....
  • Hank Baskett
    Hank Baskett

    Henry Randall Baskett III is an American football wide receiver for the Philadelphia Eagles of the National Football League. He was signed by the Minnesota Vikings as an undrafted free agent in 2006....
    , wide receiver for the Philadelphia Eagles
    Philadelphia Eagles

    The Philadelphia Eagles are a professional American football team based in Philadelphia. They are members of the NFC East of the National Football Conference in the National Football League ....
  • Andrew Boyens
    Andrew Boyens

    Andrew Boyens is a New Zealand soccer defender who currently plays for Red Bull New York of Major League Soccer....
    , MLS
    Major League Soccer

    Major League Soccer is the top-flight professional soccer league based in the United States, overseen by the United States Soccer Federation. The league is comprised of 15 teams, 14 in the U.S....
     Professional Soccer Player- New York Red Bulls Defender
  • Rich Bradford
    Rich Bradford

    Richard Bradford is the defensive line Coach for the Chicago Force of the Independent Women's Football League. He played college football at the University of New Mexico, where he was a finalist for the Outland Trophy, given to the nation's top Lineman in 1984....
    , Nose Tackle 1981-1985 Outland Trophy Finalist
  • Timothy Braun
    Timothy Braun

    Timothy Braun is an United States author. His work includes plays, essays, short stories, and criticism. Described by novelist Monique Truong as ?American Baroque" Braun's plays have been produced at The Asylum , Ensemble Studio Theater , The Flea , Hyde Park , The Loft , The Ohio , Ontological-Hysteric Theater , The Neighborhood Playhous...
    , writer and playwright
  • Stoney Case
    Stoney Case

    Stoney Jarrod Case is a quarterback in the Arena Football League, and a former National Football League quarterback with four teams....
    , NFL Quarterback
  • Robin Cole
    Robin Cole

    Robin Cole is a former professional American football player who played linebacker for twelve seasons for the Pittsburgh Steelers. He was elected to the Pro Bowl in 1984....
    , Pittsburgh Steelers
    Pittsburgh Steelers

    The Pittsburgh Steelers are a professional American football team based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania. They are currently a member of the AFC North of the American Football Conference in the National Football League) ....
     linebacker
    Linebacker

    File:Glennon_under_center_ACC_championship.jpgA Linebacker is a position in American football and Canadian football that was invented by football coach Fielding Yost of the University of Michigan....
  • Ryan Cook
    Ryan Cook

    Ryan Cook is a Collingwood Magpies footballer in the Australian Football League.He is a lively midfielder/half-forward who kicked three goals and had 19 disposals to be one of the Dandenong Stingrays' best in their losing TAC Cup Grand Final against Gippsland Power....
    , offensive lineman for the Minnesota Vikings
    Minnesota Vikings

    The Minnesota Vikings are a professional American football team based out of Minneapolis, Minnesota. The Vikings compete in the NFC North of the National Football Conference in the National Football League ....
  • Michael Cooper
    Michael Cooper

    Michael Jerome Cooper is a retired United States professional basketball player, and currently the head coach of the Women's National Basketball Association's Los Angeles Sparks....
    , former NBA
    National Basketball Association

    The National Basketball Association is North America's premier professional men's basketball league, composed of thirty teams: twenty-nine in the United States and one in Canada....
     basketball
    Basketball

    Basketball is a team sport in which two teams of five active players each try to score points against one another by propelling a basketball through a 10 feet  high hoop under organized rules....
     player for the Los Angeles Lakers, 1987 NBA Defensive Player of the Year, 5 time NBA Champion, Current coach of the Los Angeles Sparks of the WNBA
  • Robert Creeley
    Robert Creeley

    Robert Creeley was an American poet and author of more than sixty books. He is usually associated with the Black Mountain poets, though his verse aesthetic diverged from that school's....
    , American poet, affiliated with the Black Mountain poets
    Black Mountain poets

    The Black Mountain poets, sometimes called projectivist poets, were a group of mid 20th century Poetry of the United States avant-garde or postmodern poets centered on Black Mountain College....
  • Mel Daniels
    Mel Daniels

    Melvin Joe Daniels is a retired American professional basketball player.A 6' 9" center , he played for the University of New Mexico New Mexico Lobo Basketball team from 1964-67....
    , former ABA
    American Basketball Association

    The American Basketball Association was a professional basketball league founded in 1967. The ABA ceased to exist with the ABA-NBA merger in 1976....
     player; Director of Player Personnel for the Indiana Pacers
    Indiana Pacers

    The Indiana Pacers are a professional basketball team that plays in the National Basketball Association . The team is based in the state's capital and largest city, Indianapolis, Indiana, located in the center of the state....
    , NBA
  • Preston Dennard
    Preston Dennard

    Preston Jackson Dennard is a former professional American football wide receiver in the National Football League for the Los Angeles Rams, the Buffalo Bills and the Green Bay Packers....
    , wide receiver, Los Angeles Rams 1978 - 1983, Buffalo Bills 1984, Green Bay Packers 1985
  • Danny Granger
    Danny Granger

    Danny Granger Jr. was born on April 20, 1983 in New Orleans, Louisiana to Danny and Janice Granger. He is an United States professional basketball player for the N.B.A.'s Indiana Pacers....
    , Indiana Pacers
    Indiana Pacers

    The Indiana Pacers are a professional basketball team that plays in the National Basketball Association . The team is based in the state's capital and largest city, Indianapolis, Indiana, located in the center of the state....
  • Pat Henry
    Pat Henry

    Pat Henry is the current track & field coach at Texas A&M University. He is also the former track & field coach at Louisiana State University where he won 27 national championships....
    , legendary track & field coach
  • Tony Hillerman
    Tony Hillerman

    Tony Hillerman was an award-winning United States author of detective novels and non-fiction works best known for his Navajo Tribal Police mystery novels....
    , bestselling author, notable for his detective novels that revolve around the fictional Joe Leaphorn
    Joe Leaphorn

    Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn is a fictional character created by American Mystery fiction writer Tony Hillerman, one of two officers of the Navajo Tribal Police that feature in a number of novels....
     and Jim Chee
    Jim Chee

    Jim Chee is one of two Navajo Tribal Police detectives in a series of Mystery fiction novels by Tony Hillerman. Unlike his superior Joe Leaphorn, the "Legendary Lieutenant", Chee wants to be a staunch believer in traditional Navajo culture; indeed, he is studying to be a traditional healer at the same time that he is a police officer....
  • Katie Hnida
    Katie Hnida

    Katharine Anne Hnida, better known as Katie Hnida , on August 30, 2003, became the first woman to score in a National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I-A American football game....
    , first woman to score in an NCAA Division I-A football
    American football

    American football, known in the United States and Canada simply as football, is a competitive team sport known for mixing strategy with physical play....
     game
  • David Iglesias
    David Iglesias (attorney)

    David Claudio Iglesias is an United States Attorney at law from Albuquerque, New Mexico.He was appointed by President George W. Bush as the United States Attorney for the United States District Court for the District of New Mexico in August 2001 and confirmed by the United States Senate in October 2001....
    , a key figure in the Dismissal of U.S. attorneys controversy
    Dismissal of U.S. attorneys controversy

    The dismissal of U.S. Attorneys controversy is a United States political scandal initiated by the unprecedented midterm dismissal of seven United States Attorneys on December 7, 2006 by the Presidency of George W....
  • Eliot A. Jardines
    Eliot A. Jardines

    Eliot A. Jardines was the first Assistant Deputy Director of National Intelligence for Open Source in the United States.Assuming his position on 5 December 2005, he was responsible for developing strategic direction, establishing policy and managing fiscal resources for open source exploitation as well as document and media exploitation fo...
    , BA, Political Science & Latin American Studies; Assistant Deputy Director of National Intelligence for Open source intelligence
    Open source intelligence

    Open Source Intelligence is an information processing discipline that involves finding, selecting, and acquiring information from publicly available sources and analyzing it to produce actionable Intelligence ....
     2005-present
  • , author and biographer of Washington Irving
    Washington Irving

    Washington Irving was an United States author, essays, biography and history of the early 19th century. He was best known for his short story "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" and "Rip Van Winkle", both of which appear in his book The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon His historical works include biographies of George Washington, Oliver Goldsmi...
  • Cissy King
    Cissy King

    Cissy King is an American-born singer and dancer best known as a featured performer on The Lawrence Welk Show television program.Her father was a geologist employed by an oil company....
    , singer and dancer, The Lawrence Welk Show
    The Lawrence Welk Show

    The Lawrence Welk Show is a musical variety show hosted by big band leader Lawrence Welk. The original episodes were aired in either a local, network, or syndicated capacity for more than 30 years; rerun episodes are still being broadcast in the United States for the most part by PBS stations in the form of new programs each of which inc...
  • Onawa Lacy
    Onawa Lacy

    Onawa Lynn Lacy is a beauty queen from Gamerco, New Mexico who has competed in the Miss USA pageant.Lacy won the Miss New Mexico USA 2006 title in a state pageant held in Las Cruces, New Mexico in October 2005....
    , Miss New Mexico USA
    Miss New Mexico USA

    The Miss New Mexico USA competition is the pageant that selects the representative for the state of New Mexico in the Miss USA pageant.New Mexico has had moderate success at Miss USA, and has placed three times in the past ten years....
     2006
  • Rocky Long
    Rocky Long

    Rocky Long is the defensive coordinator of the San Diego State Aztecs college football team. Long was previously the head coach at the University of New Mexico, having resigned that position in November 2008....
    , Lobo QB
    Quarterback

    Quarterback is a position in American football and Canadian football. Quarterbacks are members of the offensive team and line up directly behind the center , in the middle of the Lineman ....
    , 1969-71; UNM Head Football
    American football

    American football, known in the United States and Canada simply as football, is a competitive team sport known for mixing strategy with physical play....
     Coach
    Coach (sport)

    In sports, a coach or manager is an individual involved in the direction, instruction and training of the operations of a sports team or of individual sportsperson....
    , 1998-2008
  • Luc Longley
    Luc Longley

    Lucien James "Luc" Longley is a retired Australian professional basketball player, who was the first Australian to play in the National Basketball Association....
    , former NBA player
  • , J.D. 1973, New Mexico Supreme Court
    New Mexico Supreme Court

    The New Mexico Supreme Court is the highest court in the U.S. state of New Mexico....
     Justice
  • Penny Marshall
    Penny Marshall

    Penny Marshall is an American actress, producer and director.After playing several small roles for television, she was cast as Laverne DeFazio in the sitcom Laverne and Shirley....
    , actress (left after two years)
  • Barrett Martin
    Barrett Martin

    Barrett Martin was the drummer for the Seattle, Washington group the Screaming Trees as well as the supergroup Mad Season. A multi-instrumentalist and producer, he was also a session musician in Los Angeles for several years in the 1990s and has played on or produced over 50 albums to date....
    , American drummer and composer
  • Terance Mathis
    Terance Mathis

    Terance Mathis was a Pro Bowl wide receiver in the National Football League. Drafted in 1990 NFL Draft by the New York Jets, he played the majority of his career with the Atlanta Falcons....
    , former Lobos All-American football standout and Pro Bowl wide receiver in the NFL
  • Lawrence T. Morgan
    Lawrence T. Morgan

    Lawrence T. Morgan is the current Speaker of the Navajo Tribal Council.He was first elected in January 2003 by then the 20th Navajo Nation Council....
    , the current Speaker of the Navajo Nation Tribal Council
    Navajo Tribal Council

    Navajo Tribal Council is the legislative branch of the Navajo Nation government. It has 88 elected members from the 110 chapters that make up the Navajo Nation....
  • Winslow Oliver
    Winslow Oliver

    Winslow Paul Oliver is a former American football running back in the National Football League for the Carolina Panthers and the Atlanta Falcons....
    , Carolina Panthers & Atlanta Falcons
  • Don Perkins
    Don Perkins

    Donald Anthony Perkins is a former American football Halfback who spent eight seasons with the National Football League's Dallas Cowboys....
    , Running Back for the Dallas Cowboys
    Dallas Cowboys

    The Dallas Cowboys are a professional American football team in the National Football Conference East Division of the National Football Conference in the National Football League ....
     1961-68
  • Antoine Predock
    Antoine Predock

    Antoine Predock is an American architect based in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Antoine Predock is the Principal of Antoine Predock Architect PC. The studio was established in 1967....
    , Architect
    Architect

    An architect is trained and licenced in planning and designing buildings, and participates in supervising the construction of a building. Etymologically, architect derives from the Latin architectus, itself derived from the Greek arkhitekton , i.e....
  • Robert S. Scott
    Robert S. Scott

    Colonel Robert Sheldon Scott was a soldier of the United States Army who was awarded the Medal of Honor for actions during World War II. He was born in Washington, D....
    , World War II Medal of Honor recipient
  • Elyse Sewell
    Elyse Sewell

    Elyse Marie Sewell, is an United States Model based in Hong Kong. A native of Albuquerque, New Mexico, Sewell obtained a Bachelor of Arts in Spanish and a Bachelor of Science in Biology from the University of New Mexico....
    , second runner-up on Cycle 1 of America's Next Top Model
    America's Next Top Model

    America's Next Top Model is a reality television show in which a number of women compete for the title of America's Next Top Model and a chance to start their career in the Model industry....
  • Clifton Snider
    Clifton Snider

    Clifton Mark Snider is an American poet, novelist, literary critic, scholar, and educator. He has a B.A. and an M.A. from California State University, Long Beach, and a Ph.D....
    , poet, novelist, literary critic
  • Kenny Thomas, drafted by Houston Rockets
    Houston Rockets

    The Houston Rockets are an Major North American professional sports teams basketball team based in Houston, Texas. The team plays in the Southwest Division of the Western Conference in National Basketball Association ....
    , traded to Philadelphia 76ers
    Philadelphia 76ers

    The Philadelphia 76ers are Major North American professional sports teams basketball team based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. They play in the National Basketball Association ....
     and then Sacramento Kings
    Sacramento Kings

    The Sacramento Kings are a professional basketball team based in Sacramento, California. The Kings are members of the National Basketball Association ....
  • Brian Urlacher
    Brian Urlacher

    Brian Keith Urlacher is an American football player for the Chicago Bears of the National Football League. Urlacher, an alumnus of the University of New Mexico, is a six-time Pro Bowl player and has established himself as one of the NFL's most productive linebackers....
    , linebacker
    Linebacker

    File:Glennon_under_center_ACC_championship.jpgA Linebacker is a position in American football and Canadian football that was invented by football coach Fielding Yost of the University of Michigan....
    , Chicago Bears
    Chicago Bears

    The Chicago Bears are a professional American football team based in Chicago, Illinois. They are members of the NFC North Division of the National Football Conference in the National Football League ....


Faculty

  • Norman Bay
    Norman Bay

    Norman C. Bay is a former United States Attorney for the U.S. Attorney for the District of New Mexico. Bay was the first Chinese-American United States Attorney....
    , a law professor, holds the honor of being the first Chinese-American U.S. District Attorney
  • Bradley Ellingboe
    Bradley Ellingboe

    Bradley Ellingboe was born in Farmington, Minnesota, on April 16 1958. Since 1985 he has been on the faculty of the University of New Mexico, where he is Professor of Music and Director of Choral Activities....
    , a Professor of Music and composer, knighted by King Harald of Norway for his work on Norwegian composer Edvard Grieg
  • Murray Gell-Mann
    Murray Gell-Mann

    Murray Gell-Mann is an United States physicist who received the 1969 Nobel Prize in physics for his work on the theory of particle physicss.Among his many accomplishments, he formulated the quark model of hadronic resonances, and identified the SU flavor symmetry of the light quarks, extending isospin to include strange quark, which he als...
    , who won a Nobel Prize
    Nobel Prize

    The Nobel Prize , established in the 1895 will of Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel; it was first awarded in Nobel Prize in Physics, Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, Nobel Prize in Literature, and Nobel Peace Prize in 1901....
     in physics in 1969 for his work on the theory of elementary particles, is currently a Professor in the Physics and Astronomy Department of the University
  • Edgar Lee Hewett
    Edgar Lee Hewett

    Edgar Lee Hewett, D.Sc., was an archaeologist/anthropologist active in work on the Native Americans in the United States communities of New Mexico and the southwestern United States, and most famous for his role in bringing about the Antiquities Act, a pioneering piece of legislation for the conservation movement....
    , pioneering anthropologist of the American Southwest and driving force behind the Antiquities Act
    Antiquities Act

    The Antiquities Act of 1906, officially An Act for the Preservation of American Antiquities , is an Act of Congress passed by the United States Congress and signed into law by Theodore Roosevelt on June 8, 1906 giving the President of the United States authority to restrict the use of particular public land owned by the federal governme...
     that created most of the country's national monuments
    U.S. National Monument

    A National Monument in the United States is a protected area that is similar to a United States Park Service except that the President of the United States can quickly declare an area of the United States to be a National Monument without the approval of United States Congress....
    , founded the University's anthropology
    Anthropology

    Anthropology is the study of humans and humanity in its totality. Anthropology has origins in the natural sciences, and the humanities. In Great Britain it was originally divided into physical anthropology and cultural anthropology, which itself was divided into archaeology, technology, ethnology and sociology ....
     department, one of the world's best
  • Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio
    Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio

    Jean-Marie Gustave Le Cl?zio writing under the pen name J. M. G. Le Cl?zio, is a France author and Nobel Prize in Literature. The author of over forty works, he was awarded the 1963 prix Renaudot for his novel Le Proc?s-Verbal....
    , 2008 recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, visiting faculty of modern and classical languages at UNM, 1977-78 and 1984-85, and visiting faculty in the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, 1992-93, when he also held the PNM Endowed Chair
  • Everett Rogers
    Everett Rogers

    Everett M. Rogers , communications scholar, pioneer of diffusion of innovations theory, writer, and teacher. He is best known for his 'diffusion of innovations' theory and introducing the term 'early adopter.'...
    , founder of diffusion of innovations
    Diffusion of innovations

    Diffusion of innovation is a theory of how, why, and at what rate new ideas and technology spread through cultures. Everett Rogers introduced it in his 1962 book, Diffusion of Innovations, writing that "Diffusion is the process by which an innovation is communicated through certain channels over time among the members of a social system."...
     theory and he moved to the University in 1995 to set up a doctoral program in communications, named Regents' Professor, the highest title the university bestows
  • Terry Yates
    Terry Yates

    Terry Lamon Yates was an United States biologist and academic who is credited with discovering the source of the hantavirus in the American Southwest in 1993....
    , a biology
    Biology

    Biology is a branch of the natural sciences concerned with the study of living organisms and their interaction with each other and their environment ....
     and pathology
    Pathology

    Pathology is the study and diagnosis of disease through examination of Organ , tissue , bodily fluids and whole bodies . The term also encompasses the related science study of disease processes, called General pathology....
     professor who is credited with discovering the source of the hantavirus
    Hantavirus

    Hantaviruses belong to the Bunyaviridae family of viruses. There Bunyaviridae family is divided into 5 genera: Orthobunyavirus, Nairovirus, Phlebovirus, Tospovirus, and Hantavirus....
     in 1993


Points of interest

  • Maxwell Museum of Anthropology
    Maxwell Museum of Anthropology

    The Maxwell Museum of Anthropology is an anthropology museum located on the University of New Mexico campus in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The museum was founded in 1932 as the Museum of Anthropology of the University of New Mexico, becoming the first public museum in Albuquerque....
  • University of New Mexico Arboretum
    University of New Mexico Arboretum

    The 'University of New Mexico Arboretum' is an arboretum extending throughout the University of New Mexico campus in Albuquerque, New Mexico.The arboretum contains some 320 species of woody plants, including Albizia julibrissin, Buxus microphylla japonica, Campsis radicans, Cercis canadensis, Chilopsis linearis, Cotoneas...
  • University Arena
    University Arena

    University Arena, more commonly known as The Pit, is a basketball only arena in Albuquerque, New Mexico on E Arena Dr SE @ Avenida Cesar Chavez & University Blvd SE with a capacity of 18,018....
  • University Stadium
  • UNM Cancer Research Building
    UNM Cancer Research Building

    The UNM Cancer Research and Treatment Center is a research facility located on the University of New Mexico North Campus, and part of the University of New Mexico Hospital complex....
  • Estufa
    Estufa

    The Estufa is a historic structure on the University of New Mexico campus in Albuquerque, New Mexico. It was built between 1906 and 1908 as a meeting room for the local social Fraternities and sororities Alpha Alpha Alpha, which in 1915 became the Beta Delta chapter of Pi Kappa Alpha....


Organizations

  • Service action network
    Service action network

    The Service Action Network was created in March 2007 by students at the University of New Mexico.The goal of the Service Action Network is to unite the various service agencies at the University of New Mexico, in order to expand opportunities for service and increase community engagement....
  • UNM Capoeira Club


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  • , University-affiliated radio station
  • , UNM's student-run newspaper