ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico, June 17 -- The University of New Mexico posted the following news: * * * Advancing UNM through the next 10 years: new challenges, new leaders * In the spring of 2025, it was clear across academia that President Donald Trump's election meant big changes in grant funding and research across the board. Executive orders set new and confusing rules that changed the direction of federal agencies that faculty rely on for research funding. Some orders slashing agency budgets were put in place and later changed by the admi more PR

SANTA FE, New Mexico, June 18 -- WildEarth Guardians posted the following news release: * * * Conservation Groups Request More Time, Information about Massive Mining Project on Public Lands near Helena The project sits entirely within the Little Blackfoot River watershed, directly affecting Ophir Creek, Carpenter Creek, and Snowshoe Creek. - HELENA, Mont. - Conservation groups this week submitted a letter to the Helena Ranger District of the U.S. Forest Service decrying a large new proposed mining exploration project, primarily on public l more PR

ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico, June 18 -- The University of New Mexico posted the following news: * * * Facility Services announces organizational update * Over the past year, UNM's Facility Services has undergone a reorganization to strengthen alignment across operations, improve communication, and enhance service to the campus community. This effort has resulted in a more clearly defined structure with five primary areas of focus: Building and Landscape Services, Technical Services, Facilities Customer Services, Facilities Design and Constructi more PR

GALLUP, New Mexico, June 19 -- The University of New Mexico's Gallup campus issued the following news: * * * Kee appointed UNM-Gallup interim dean of instruction Longtime faculty member and former division chair steps into role during period of leadership transition By Richard Reyes Joe Kee, an associate professor of Navajo language and government as well as a former division chair, has been appointed the interim dean of instruction at The University of New Mexico-Gallup. UNM-Gallup Dean of Instruction John Zimmerman announced Kee's appoi more PR

SANTA FE, New Mexico, June 18 -- WildEarth Guardians posted the following news release on June 16, 2026: * * * Lawsuit Launched to Challenge Massive Logging Project in Montana's Bitterroot National Forest The Bitterroot Front Project authorizes extensive commercial logging, road building, prescribed burning, herbicides and other industrial activities that will significantly damage the forest. - MISSOULA, Mont.-- Local and national conservation groups today filed a notice of their intent to sue the U.S. Forest Service and U.S. Fish and Wild more PR

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pennsylvania, June 17 -- Pennsylvania State University posted the following Q&A involving Erika Machtinger, associate professor of entomology in the College of Agricultural Sciences: * * * Q&A: Does the New World screwworm pose a threat to Pennsylvania? * Over the past two weeks, there have been 12 reports out of Texas and New Mexico of new cases of the New World screwworm -a parasitic fly once declared eradicated in the U.S. Female screwworms lay their eggs in the wounds of mammals, which then serve as a food source for  more PR

ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico, June 18 -- The University of New Mexico posted the following news: * * * UNM biology faculty hosted the fifth consecutive neuroscience workshop * For the fifth consecutive year, University of New Mexico Biology Professor Mubarak Hussain Syed, also known as the FlyGuy, together with Matthew Clark, assistant professor of biology at Bucknell University; Veronica Evans, associate professor of biology at San Juan College; Maciah Shendo; and community partners Pueblo Brain Science, hosted the annual Neuroscience Workshop. more PR