If life is like a box of chocolates, college advisement might be like a box of Girl Scout cookies. This month, JJ Conn, senior academic advisor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, will present a session on how hobbies can inform your work as an advisor during the NACADA 2025 Annual Conference to be held Oct. 26-29 in Las Vegas.

The session titled, “Bet! And I'll Raise You a Thin Mint: How Personal Passions Can Ante Up Your Advising,” will connect Conn’s six years as a Girl Scout troop leader to her career as an academic a…

The School of Engineering is proud to announce Pavithra Prabhakar as the Cleve Moler and MathWorks Endowed Chair in Mathematical and Engineering Software.

The inaugural chairship honors the mid-1970s origins of MATLAB and the UNM Department of Computer Science. Cleve Moler was a professor in the Mathematics Department when he began developing MATLAB, a programming and numeric computing platform, to help his students access linear algebra libraries without writing advanced code. Led by the efforts of a group of mathematics facult…

The Association of Pedestrian and Bicycle Professionals (APBP) Awards honor individuals who have demonstrated excellence, leadership, and innovation in the bicycle and pedestrian profession, as well as APBP chapters that have significantly contributed to the organization by fostering local engagement, professional growth, and visibility.

The 2025 Lifetime Achievement Award, four Professional of the Year Awards, and one Chapter Award were presented during the final day of APBP’s 2025 Virtual Summit: A Path to Progress, Sept. 25 - 26, 2025. The…