University of New Mexico
The University of New Mexico is a public
university in
Albuquerque, New Mexico. It was founded in 1889, and today offers multiple bachelor's, master's, doctoral, and professional degree programs. While offering degrees in all areas of the arts, sciences, and engineering, it is considered to be the liberal arts school of the three universities on the New Mexico stretch of I-25. Its Albuquerque campus currently spreads over 600 acres , and there are branch
campuses in
Gallup, Los Alamos,
Taos, and Valencia County.
Encyclopedia
The
University of New Mexico is a public
university in
Albuquerque, New Mexico. It was founded in 1889, and today offers multiple bachelor's, master's, doctoral, and professional degree programs. While offering degrees in all areas of the arts, sciences, and engineering, it is considered to be the liberal arts school of the three universities on the New Mexico stretch of I-25. Its Albuquerque campus currently spreads over 600 acres , and there are branch
campuses in
Gallup, Los Alamos,
Taos, and Valencia County.
Statistics as of 2004
- The mean student age is 27.4.
- The median student age is 23.6.
- UNM and UNM Hospital together employ 20,210 people.
- There are 114,767 alumni worldwide.
Campus
The main UNM campus is located between Central Avenue, Girard Boulevard, Lomas Boulevard, and University Boulevard, in central Albuquerque. 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 Tight, plastered over the Victorian-style Hodgin Hall to create a monument to Pueblo Indian culture. Villified 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. Meem, a famed Santa Fe 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.
Academics
The Anderson Schools of Management @ UNM are listed as one of the top ten business schools for Hispanics in
Hispanic Business Magazine. Anderson's Management of Technology MBA program is ranked #6 in the world.
The University of New Mexico is ranked 5th out of the top 100 federally funded institutions in regard to the impact of materials science papers over the years 1996-2000 by the Institute for Scientific Information
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: 2nd in Rural Medicine, 3rd in Nursing Midwifery, 5th in Family Medicine, 6th in Primary Care, 15th in Community Health, 15th in Family Nurse Practitioner and 23rd in Occupational Therapy
Athletics
The school's athletic teams compete in the
Mountain West Conference. The Lobo mascots are named Louie and Lucy Lobo. The official school colors are cherry and silver.
UNM maintains strong athletic rivalries with
New Mexico State University.The UNM-NMSU rivalry is called the Battle of
I-25.
The
Lobo basketball team is famous for its venue,University Arena, 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 coached by Jim Valvano upset the
University of Houston. The Lobo football team plays at University Stadium, which is located across the street from the Pit.
The UNM football team has been to three bowl games in the past four years, visiting the
Las Vegas Bowl in 2002 and 2003 and the
Emerald Bowl in 2004. Placekicker
Katie Hnida 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. 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.
Media
UNM owns and operates KUNM-FM, one of two
National Public Radio stations in Albuquerque. With the Albuquerque Public Schools, UNM also operates
KNME-TV, Albuquerque's public television station. The Daily Lobo is UNM's student-run daily
newspaper.
Notable Alumni
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- , PhD & MSc Petroleum Engineering, Minister of Oil, Republic of Iraq
- Warren J. Baker, PhD, Civ Eng 1966, , California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
- Michael Cooper, former NBA basketball player
- Robert Creeley
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, American poet, affiliated with the Black Mountain poets
- Mel Daniels, former ABA player; Director of Player Personnel for the Indiana Pacers, NBA
- Tony Hillerman, Master's in English
- Katie Hnida, first woman to score in an NCAA Division I-A football game
- Eliot A. Jardines, BA, Political Science & Latin American Studies; Assistant Deputy Director of National Intelligence for Open source intelligence 2005-present
- Cissy King, singer and dancer, The Lawrence Welk Show
- Onawa Lacy, Miss New Mexico USA 2006
- Rocky Long, Lobo QB, 1969-71; UNM Head Football Coach, 1998-present
- Luc Longley, former NBA player
- Honorable Petra Jimenez Maes, J.D. 1973, New Mexico Supreme Court Justice
- Joe Maloof, former Lobos football player and president of Maloof Companies, which owns the NBA's Sacramento Kings, WNBA's Sacramento Monarchs, and The Palms hotel/casino in Las Vegas
- Winslow Oliver, Carolina Panthers & Atlanta Falcons
- Kenny Thomas, drafted by Houston Rockets, traded to Philadelphia 76ers and Sacramento Kings
- Brian Urlacher, Chicago Bears linebacker
- Rick Maese, columnist, Baltimore Sun is the newspaper of record [i] for Baltimore, Maryland [i], with a daily press run of 247,19 ...
. - Danny Granger, Indiana Pacers
- Stoney Case, NFL Quarterback
- Scott, Robert S, WWII Medal of Honor winner
Notable staff
- Murray Gell-Mann, who won a Nobel Prize 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.
- Everett Rogers, was founder of diffusion of innovations theory and he moved to the University in 1995 to set up a doctoral program in communications. Rogers was named Regents' Professor, the highest title the university bestows. He has since died.
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, a Law professor, holds the honor of being the first
Chinese-American U.S. District Attorney.
Pictures of campus
Points of interest
- University of New Mexico Arboretum
- University Arena
- UNM Cancer Research Building
External links
- official website
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- , UNM's student-run newspaper
