Distinguished and Young Alums to be recognized The UNM Honors College will host a Homecoming and Open House on Saturday, September 21, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., featuring a family-friendly atmosphere with an art exhibition at Spectra Gallery, crafts for kids, and a silent auction to benefit...

Spectra Gallery, housed in the Honors College at The University of New Mexico, is hosting an art exhibition titled "In Memoriam" by acclaimed image-based artist and educator Ashley Czajkowski. The exhibition, part of the Honors Forum, will be on display from August 12 to December 13. It will be...

Limina, formerly known as Best Student Essays (BSE), stands as the premier nonfiction student review at the University of New Mexico. Published annually, it invites submissions from both undergraduate and graduate students across all disciplines. Limina welcomes a diverse range of nonfiction...

Congratulations to Honors student Ian Hutchinson who has been awarded both the 2024 UNM Deborah Rifenbary Memorial Globally-Engaged Research Undergraduate Student Award and an Undergraduate International Studies and Foreign Language Field Research Awards for research that he has undertaken in...

The New Mexico Basic Needs Consortium was one of 141 new commitments from stakeholders nationwide who stepped up as part of the White House Challenge to End Hunger and Build Healthy Communities announced recently by the Biden-Harris administration. The commitments include health systems,...

We are thrilled to announce that Myrriah Gómez, an associate professor of the UNM Honors College, has been honored with the 2023 Southwest Book Award for her remarkable work, Nuclear Nuevo México!  The University of Arizona Press published Gómez's groundbreaking book. Nuclear Nuevo México...

A cohort of faculty from across campus and from various disciplines started the interdisciplinary design certificate for undergraduates. The Certificate in Interdisciplinary Design provides students with an interdisciplinary community of scholars doing research, teaching, and service at the...

FACULTY EMERITUS  Rosalie Otero, UNM honors faculty emeritus and former director was awarded the National Collegiate Honors Council's 2023 Founders Award during the recent Annual Conference in Chicago. Read more about Rosalie's national recognition.  Link to this...

Juliana Byrd, now a senior studying biochemistry, participated in this Honors course in spring 2023. During the final project students were given the opportunity to make a piece of art related to the themes of climate change and environmental justice. Byrd decided to craft a bench made of...

  A recent University of New Mexico graduate was featured in a photo essay about affirmative action published by The New York Times. Andrew Michael Joseph, who graduated in May with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Honors Art Studio and a minor in Honors Interdisciplinary Liberal Arts, was one of...

Spenser Willden, an honors interdisciplinary liberal arts and English creative writing major at the University of New Mexico, has shared his positive experience with the UNM Honors College. Willden, originally from Roswell, N.M., praised the Honors College's supportive faculty, creative course...

University of New Mexico undergraduate students work closely with faculty mentors to conduct innovative and exciting research.  Each spring, this research is celebrated at the annual Undergraduate Research Opportunity Conference (UROC). UROC is a professional research conference reserved solely...

ust a week before the excitement of commencement at The University of New Mexico, graduating senior Cassandra Huneau stood in front of an audience at the College Basic Needs in New Mexico Data Sharing Symposium and related her encounters with hunger and housing insecurity. The audience included...

You’ll find plenty of public servants in Washington D.C., defending various cases for their prospective state. You won't, however, find one as young, passionate and innovative as UNM senior Nic Estrada. The New Mexico native is graduating this spring with a Bachelor’s of Arts in Political...

University of New Mexico senior Blake Hautzinger had heard the jokes about eating a lot of ramen in college. But they didn’t seem the type who would need to worry: The child of college educated parents who paid for tuition and fees to subsidize a scholarship, whose GPA never dipped below 3.5,...