University of New Mexico

Finally. After many contentious years, the American Psychiatric Assn. has unleashed DSM-5, the fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. If you know one thing about the DSM, it’s probably that this book is...

Pam De La O's office at Amy Biehl Community School at Rancho Viejo is almost minimalistic in style. With one exception -- a stack of disheveled papers and binders sitting on a shelf near her desk -- it is a neatly organized office, one that reflects the...

Calling Piedra Vista softball a dynasty doesn't even begin to explain the dominance the Lady Panthers have demonstrated in 4A softball over the last decade. No. 1 Piedra Vista defeated No. 4 Aztec 5-2 at the University of New Mexico softball field in...

John Donald Robb (1892-1989) served for 16 years, through 1957, on the music faculty of the University of New Mexico -- and for all but one of those years as its dean of the College of Fine Arts. He earned particular note for his work exploring the state'...

Even bad luck takes a day off. In the case of the St. Michael's baseball team, all it needed from its one-sided relationship with postseason misfortune was a quick breather. It finally came in the form of a late-inning rally during Thursday afternoon'...

As districts cope with tightening budgets and testing schedules, field trips often fall by the wayside. But a new generation of field trips may make it easier to integrate curriculum and even assessment into real-world local settings students can explore....

Retired World Bank administrator Anne B. Thomas will be the guest speaker at the League of Women Voters annual meeting Tuesday, May 21, at 7:30 p.m. at Otterbein United Methodist Church on the corner of East Franklin and Locust streets in Hagerstown. The...

Saturday will stick with Mayfield senior Kacee Ramos for a very long time. Graduation day is always a lifetime event, but Ramos is a senior class president and also the No. 1 qualifier (12.1 seconds) in the girls 100 meter run on Saturday at the...

Newborns arrive in this world somewhat half-baked or, in the more measured words of evolutionary anthropologist Wanda Trevathan of the University of New Mexico, "a little unfinished, if you will." Parents declare them beautiful, these wailing bundles of...

Archaeologist Patricia McAnany was knee-deep in an excavation trench in Belize in 1995 when she uncovered a disturbing truth: Anthropologists, government officials, artifact collectors and the tourism industry all had profited from more than a century...

At The University of New Mexico, hopeful news out of its College of Education. Reform is afoot, starting at the best place, the beginning -- focusing on the training of future teachers. Last week, administrators announced a multimillion-dollar effort to...

For the second time in little more than 12 hours, Dolores Huerta Preparatory High School senior Michael Aguilar will parade across the stage at the Colorado State Fairgrounds Southwest Motors Events Center to receive a diploma. Aguilar, 18, received a...