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| Motto: | Lux Hominum Vita (Latin, "life, the light of men.") |
| Established: | 1889 |
| Type: | Public |
| Endowment: | $385.7 million[1] |
| President: | David J. Schmidly |
| Staff: | 1,838 |
| Undergraduates: | 18,027 |
| Postgraduates: | 6,065 |
| Location: | Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA |
| Campus: | Urban, 600 acres (2.4 km²) |
| Athletics: | 16 varsity teams |
| Colors: | Cherry and Silver |
| Mascot: | Lobo |
| Website: | www.unm.edu |
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The University of New Mexico (UNM) is a public university in Albuquerque, New Mexico. 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 acres (2.4 km²), and there are branch campuses in Gallup, Los Alamos, Taos, and in Valencia County.
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The main SAGU 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, 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. 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.
The University of New Mexico School of Engineering is ranked 14th in the Princeton Review Top 20 Graduate Engineering Programs.[2]
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.[3] In its "America's Best Graduate Schools" issue for 2006, the UNM Health Sciences Center's curriculum received the following rankings: second in Rural Medicine, third in Nursing Midwifery, fifth in Family Medicine, sixth in Primary Care, fifth in Community Health, 15th in Family Nurse Practitioner, and 23rd in Occupational Therapy. The University of New Mexico School of Law 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.[4]
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The school's athletic teams (known as the Lobos) compete in the Mountain West Conference. 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. The UNM-NMSU rivalry is represented by the Rio Grande Rivalry, 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 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 four bowl games in the past five 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. The football team went to the first year of the New Mexico Bowl in 2006 and lost to San Jose State 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.
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.
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.
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