Daily Lobo 4/13/2026

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Attorneys claim

By Paloma Chapa @paloma_chapa88

On Wednesday, April 8, attorneys Julio Romero and Kelly Sanchez sent a letter to University of New Mexico leadership addressing alleged inaccuracies and “mischaracterizations” of their client by former UNM Law School Dean Sergio Pareja in a letter he sent to UNM leadership on March 31. Romero, Sanchez and the ACLU represented a former law student who raised due process violations against the law school after meeting with Vice Dean Steven Homer on Nov. 19, 2024, regarding what the client alleged was retaliatory

client mischaracterized by former Law School Dean Client alleges due process violations in disciplinary action

allegations of misconduct made against her by another law student.

Romero and Sanchez wrote that the law school received audio of the Nov. 19 meeting with the student and Homer over the disciplinary violation that captured Homer “prematurely interrogating the student and telling the student he had already decided the student’s truthfulness,” before giving her an opportunity to select between a formal or informal investigation.

The law school policy handbook states that the associate dean is to inform a student of the allegations before giving them the option of either going through an informal investigation, conducted by the

Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, or a formal investigation, where a “disciplinary committee” will investigate and decide the matter.

On April 16, 2025, a New Mexico Civil Rights Act Notice sent by Romero and Sanchez to UNM leadership and the law school stated the school could not legally proceed with a disciplinary hearing related to the allegations while the matter was actively pending on appeal before the Board of Regents, according to the letter.

The greater law firm of Martinez, Hart, Sanchez and Romero, along with the ACLU, filed a temporary restraining order against the UNM School of Law in April 2025 to

Experts warn against permitted killing of Mexican wolves

By Leila Chapa & Paloma Chapa

@lchapa06

& @paloma_chapa88

On Feb. 24, the United States Fish and Wildlife Service released a now-expired document authorizing

designated individuals in Catron county to kill a Mexican wolf on private land or “in the act of biting, killing, or wounding livestock on Federal land.” Some experts warn the permitted killings fail to save cattle and could threaten the endangered species.

The permit’s duration spanned

from Feb. 19 through April 4, or until a wolf was taken, stating that it be done “as quickly and humanely as possible.” No wolves were reported to have been killed under the permit, according to New Mexico Conservation Lead for WildEarth Guardians Leia Barnett.

Senior Conservation Advocate with the Center for Biological Diversity and author of the book “Predatory Bureaucracy” Michael Robinson said persecution of the Mexican grey wolf by the federal government has historically occurred on behalf of the livestock industry.

“Primarily, it’s been through direct shooting by government officials,” Robinson said. “(Mexican grey wolves) came to the point of near extinction not just because of inadequate protections, but because of deliberate persecution by the U.S. government.”

In 1915, Congress appropriated funding to hire hundreds of wolf trappers, hunters and poisoners as full-time salaried employees to see Wolves page 10

prohibit the school from proceeding with a disciplinary hearing until a “fair equitable process” was in place after the earlier unresolved due process violations.

Pareja wrote in his letter that “nobody’s Due Process rights were violated” and the client “obviously wanted all disciplinary proceedings related to the complaint to stop, which is the obvious purpose of their pleading.” Romero and Sanchez wrote that his statements were “inaccurate and inconsistent.”

Romero and Sanchez wrote in their letter that between December 2024 and April 2025, they asked to meet with law school dean Camille Carey and then-Associate Dean

Steven Homer to address the law student’s due process concerns, but were repeatedly rejected.

“The issues arose from direct procedural and substantive due process violations on UNM School of Law’s own disciplinary procedures. Court intervention was only sought after Camille Carey convened the disciplinary hearing to act despite knowing the student’s challenge to remove Steven Homer on grounds of bias was actively pending before the UNM Board of Regents,” the Romero and Sanchez letter reads.

The restraining order was settled the day before Carey was courtordered to testify before a state

Eagan era begins for women’s basketball

By Wyatt S. Padilla @wyattspadilla

The University of New Mexico welcomed its seventh women’s basketball coach on Wednesday, April 8, at an introductory press conference that saw Amy Eagan assume the role as a decade of Mike Bradbury officially ended.

Eagan faces the task of retaining the players on the roster, transfer hunting for new additions and staff building, all to build a roster for next season that can compete for a Mountain West title.

Eagan has experience competing at the top and the success that

follows, with an overall coaching record of 329-191 that spans across five different stops. Under her belt of 17 seasons, she has six conference titles, five NCAA DII Tournament appearances and a DII National Runner-up trophy. Most recently, she was the head coach at Lindenwood University where she led the Lions into their D1 transition. In her first season, the Lions went 7-21, and by year three, her team went 25-8 and split the Ohio Valley Regular Season title with Western Illinois. Lindenwood also finished at number 96 in the NET, which was ahead of 10 of 12 Mountain West

programs, 20th in 2-point field goal percentage and seventh in 3-point field goal percentage.

Eagan was welcomed by donors, current UNM players, administration, UNM women’s basketball alumni and other program leaders including men’s basketball Head Coach Eric Olen, football Head Coach Jason Eck and others. As she donned the cherry blazer that so many have worn before her, she was hit with the feeling of finding home, Eagan said.

“If you have ever walked into a room and immediately knew you were home, you know exactly how I feel,” Eagan said during the press conference.

Eagan has already put together some of her staff since getting to The Pit. She brought some of her staff from Lindenwood with her, as her Associate Head Coach Jordan Mellott — who has been with her for six years, and runs her offense — will join her. Lindsay Ward will be an assistant coach and Makayla Wallace will serve as director of operations.

As for the Lobos who were a part of last year’s team, only three have announced they will be returning, as Laila Abdurraqib, Kaia Foster and Drew Jordan have committed to return for the Eagan era. Five Lobos have entered the transfer portal,

including two of the Lobos starters, Joana Magalhães and Destinee Hooks, who were key players for UNM over the past two years. Both centers Jessie Joaquim and Emma Nujjuma, as well as freshman Tyler Jones, have all entered the portal. Eagan will now begin her tenure in Albuquerque by sharpening the Lobos’ teeth in a newly-shaped Mountain West with a college landscape that continues to get more volatile.

Wyatt S. Padilla is a beat reporter for the Daily Lobo. He can be reached at sports@dailylobo.com or on X @wyattspadilla

Sustainability office looks to engage students

By Addison Fulton @DailyLobo

The University of New Mexico is a campus shaded by trees and underscored by a commitment to a more sustainable future. One of its guiding forces in this mission is the UNM Office of Sustainability.

Sustainability Engagement Coordinator Alejandría Lyons said the work of the office is largely two-fold, dealing on one side with University operations, changing the policies and practices of institutions to reflect sustainability goals. The other aspect is more student-facing, including “embedding sustainability culture at UNM,” Lyons said.

“We help with the sustainability aspects such as food waste, such as recycling, use more sustainable practices and be in partnership to make UNM a greener campus, so on the whole, that’s what the Office of Sustainability does,” Lyons said.

In October 2025, the Office of Sustainability released their fiveyear plan, titled the “Sustainability Strategic Plan 2025-2030.” The plan details specific goals for the University, including requirements for new buildings constructed to be electric, cultivation of pollinatorfriendly plants and the reduction of food waste.

The 2025-30 plan is a subsect of the 2040 Plan put forth by President Garnett Stokes, which acts in favor of sustainability alongside other long-term University goals.

“I think it gives that goal that’s within the 2040 plan more teeth and a way to bring people together. I think when it comes to large climate

plans or things like the Paris Accord, it’s kind of like ‘Who’s in charge of this?’” Lyons said. “And our office is there to kind of, I wouldn’t say be a watchdog, but like to be that cofacilitator, do the connective tissue, to make sure people are making those connections.”

As Stokes retires from the University, the Office of Sustainability hopes for collaboration with Stokes’ successor, Lyons said.

“We hope that the incoming administration for the president is somebody who would still be a champion of sustainability, still holds that goal really high in all of their messaging,” Lyons said.

Lyons said she’s noticed an uptick in student involvement with sustainability efforts in the current political climate.

“What I have seen is more students want to get involved. They want to create more efforts,” she said. “I think a lot of folks want to put their hands in the pie of sustainability. But we need a way so that those efforts carry forward after students graduate. So in a way, it’s the national stuff (that) has given pressure to students to want to be involved.”

The Office of Sustainability is hosting a calendar of events for Earth Month, including Campus Clean-ups of North and Main Campus on April 22 and April 24, and a Spring Garden Party on April 30.

Lyons also said that with UNM students interested in sustainability, small victories can have large impacts.

“Don’t give up hope. Having come from my own journey of

working in the nonprofit sphere, it felt like we were fighting such a huge, nebulous fight,” Lyons said. ”But I have felt more calm in this position because it feels like I’m working towards something that can be accomplished in my lifetime. It’s not necessarily the ending of oil and gas, but it is something — if we draw the boundaries around you and them, and we look specifically about how we can make an individual impact, that has helped me in this place.”

Addison Fulton is the culture editor for the Daily Lobo. She can be reached at culture@dailylobo. com or on X @dailylobo

Protesters rally, Trump threatens death of Iran’s ‘whole civilization’

By Paloma Chapa @paloma_chapa88

On Tuesday, April 7, protesters gathered at the corner of Central Avenue and University Boulevard in response to President Donald Trump’s threats to wipe out the Iranian civilization if the country didn’t reopen the Strait of Hormuz by his 8 p.m. deadline.

“A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again. I don’t want that to happen, but it probably will. However, now that we have Complete and Total Regime Change, where different, smarter, and less radicalized minds prevail, maybe something revolutionarily wonderful can happen, WHO KNOWS? We will find out tonight, one of the most important moments in the long and complex history of the World. 47 years of extortion, corruption, and death, will finally end. God Bless the Great People of Iran!” Trump wrote on Truth Social.

The war between Iran and the U.S. had been ongoing for six weeks before the two countries agreed on a two-week ceasefire less than two hours before the deadline, according to CBS News.

On Sunday, Trump wrote in a Truth Social post that, in conjunction with other allied countries, he would order the U.S. Navy to blockade the Strait of Hormuz over Iran’s refusal to give up its nuclear materials and claims that they had laid mines through the water crossing used in international trade, particularly oil.

Later that afternoon, U.S. Central Command said they would begin a blockade of Iranian ports and coastal areas at 10 a.m. EST on

Monday, but allow vessels not traveling to Iranian ports to sail through the Strait of Hormuz.

Some protesters said they felt scared when they first read the news of Trump’s threats. Cristiana Sandoval said she was worried about the future of her children.

“It’s a little bit terrifying for what’s going to happen for the future or even tomorrow,” Sandoval said.

“Honestly, like today, I’m grateful being able to even protest.”

Alyssa Lucero said she was skeptical of the two-week ceasefire.

“We saw how the ceasefire went with Israel and Palestine, and so, it’s really hard to trust a man who lies to his citizens every single day,” Lucero said.

Multiple temporary ceasefires have been enacted during the Israel-Hamas War, most recently in October 2025. Since the agreement, Israel has on more than one occasion resumed strikes in retaliation to what they claim are violations of the provisions of the ceasefire, including refusal to hand over the remains of hostages and the shooting of an Israeli soldier, the latter of which has been disavowed by Hamas leadership, according to the Associated Press.

High school student Rebecca Nez came to the protest with a sign that read “No one is free until we are all free.”

“What’s going on in Iran, I feel so sad about what’s happening,” Nez said. “It’s just sickening how insensitive the president is right now, how the people he is bringing into government are just following after him.”

University of New Mexico graduate student Yoma Wilson said

he thinks it’s “scary” that Trump can “admit to plan war crimes,” but feels hopeful that people are standing up to him.

“I just hope it’s not just as superficial as anti-Trump-ness,” Wilson said. “That’s not going to just happen with a blue wave or the Democrats winning. It really needs to come from the bottom up, and we need to organize, and seeing protests like this gives me a lot of hope.”

Paloma Chapa is the multimedia editor for the Daily Lobo. She can be reached at multimedia@ dailylobo.com or on X @paloma_ chapa88

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Baseball

Lobos sweep Aztecs out of first place

By Elizabeth Bolke & Marley Herndon

@DailyLobo & @DailyLobo

In a series between two of the top teams in the Mountain West, the Lobos came out on top by sweeping the three-game set and taking first place in the Mountain West standings.

After losing to Texas Tech University earlier in the week, the University of New Mexico was able to win three straight against the San Diego State University Aztecs on April 10-12.

Game one of the series was an absolute thrill ride. Starting pitcher Cristian Mogen was looking for a bounce-back start after a rough outing his last time in Las Vegas, and he delivered in a big way. He

gave the Lobos a quality start, going 7 innings, allowing 3 runs and striking out 11 while walking just 1 runner.

“(In) Mogen’s last start he was not himself. He was highly motivated to go out there today and throw strikes and today he was extremely dominant,” Head Coach Tod Brown said.

The Lobo’s only issue was that 3 runs was all their offense had. The game knotted at 3-3 heading into the bottom of the ninth inning, and the Lobos had a chance to win it. It looked very promising as the first two men reached but center fielder Khalil Walker bounced into a double play. This complicated things, but the winning run was still 90-feet away for right fielder Anthony Diaz. The Lobos would’ve taken any base hit, but Diaz came through with a walk-off home run, ending the game

Lobos lose key contributor to transfer portal

By Jaden McKelvey-Francis @jadenmckelvey

At the end of the 2024-25 basketball season, the University of New Mexico men’s basketball faced a mass upheaval, losing every single player and coach for the 2025-26 roster.

This offseason will have slightly more continuity, though not by much. After the NCAA Transfer Portal opened on Tuesday, April 7, only one player has announced his intention to remain with the Lobos while seven players have declared they will enter the portal. In his first year as head coach, Eric Olen took the Lobos to the semifinals of the National Invitational Tournament and finished the season with a 2611 record.

Returning:

Guard Uriah Tenette

The freshman guard was the Lobos’ fourth leading scorer this season, averaging 10.6 points per game. He spent most of the season as the Lobos sixth man, starting eight games this season.

Entering Portal:

Guard Jake Hall

The Lobos’ leading scorer plans to enter the transfer portal with a Do Not Contact Tag, meaning teams and coaches can’t initiate contact with him, according to the Albuquerque Journal. Hall averaged 16.4 PPG, was the Mountain West Conference’s Freshman of the Year and named All-Conference first team.

Forward Tomislav Buljan

The 23-year-old Croatian freshman has committed to play for the University of Maryland

Terrapins next season. Buljan averaged a double-double this season with 10.3 rebounds and 13.1 PPG. He made the All-Conference Second Team.

Forward Antonio Chol

Chol started 32 games this season and plans to enter the transfer portal, according to League Ready. The Junior averaged 7.7 PPG and 2.9 RPG.

Center JT Rock

The sophomore averaged 6.2 PPG and shot nearly 40% from beyond the arc this season.

Guard Timéo Pons

The frenchman appeared in 13 games, averaging 2.6 PPG and had a career high of 11 points against New Mexico Highlands University.

Guard Kevin Patton, Jr.

Patton, Jr. appeared in nine games this season and averaged 2.6 PPG. He is entering the transfer portal, according to the Albuquerque Journal.

Guard Kallai Patton

The younger brother of Patton, Jr., the freshman, did not appear in a game this year. He is entering the transfer portal, according to the Albuquerque Journal.

The Lobos are also losing guards Deyton Albury, Tajavis Miller and Luke Haupt and forward Milos Vicentic to graduation.

Olen will have plenty of roster spots to fill this offseason if he hopes to build upon his first year as the Lobos’ head coach.

Jaden McKelvey-Francis is the editor-in-chief of the Daily Lobo. He can be reached at editorinchief@dailylobo.com or on X @jadenmckelvey

with the Lobos winning 5-3.

“I saw the slider up and turned on it. It felt great to come through for the team in a big spot,” Diaz said.

Game two was a complete rout. Starting Pitcher Ryan Castillo spun an absolute gem, going the distance, pitching a complete game. His final line was 9 innings pitched, allowing just 3 runs and striking out 8 and walking 1. The Lobo offense did plenty in game two as they went on to win 11-3.

Game three was an absolute slugfest. This back-and-forth affair saw San Diego State catcher Zach Justice start the scoring with the first of three Aztec home runs featured in the game. This was the first time San Diego drew first blood in the series, but like the Lobo offense did so many times, they responded with a run of their own.

“That’s what winning teams do, when the other team scores you have to answer back somehow. That’s what we did today and that’s how you win games,” Brown said. The back-and-forth nature of this game continued but it would be Lobo designated hitter Gene Trujillo who had the final word. In the eighth inning, with the Lobos up 9-8 with two men on base, Trujillo sent a ball over the right field fence to give UNM some important insurance runs. That bomb proved to be the dagger in this 12-8 Lobo win. Relief pitcher Talor Grubbs had an uneventful ninth inning and the Lobos had a sweep of the San Diego State Aztecs.

“We played some great baseball this weekend and being in first place feels great. It’s nice to see that we’re hitting (our) stride right now,”

Trujillo said.

With the series sweep, the Lobos move into first place in the Mountain West and have a date with second-place University of Nevada on Friday, April 17 at Santa Ana Star field, but first the Lobos will go on the road for a rematch against New Mexico State University on Tuesday, April 14.

“We’d like to get New Mexico State back, we lost to them last time and on Wednesday we’ll start focusing on Nevada,” Brown said.

Elizabeth Bolke is a freelance reporter for the Daily Lobo. She can be reached at sports@dailylobo. com or on X @Dailylobo

Marley Herndon is a beat reporter for the Daily Lobo. He can be reached at sports@dailylobo. com or on X @Dailylobo

Opinion

Fantastic Five: NHL Power Rankings

By Simon Reseigh @simon_reseigh

We’ve entered the final stretch of the NHL season, where playoff dreams come true and others come to a screeching halt. Several teams have already punched their tickets to the postseason, but the race for the Eastern and Western Conference wild-card spots is shaping up to be a photo finish.

Here are the picks for this week’s top five teams in the NHL.

5. Buffalo Sabres

Buffalo has snapped its 14-year playoff absence and is now battling for the Atlantic Division crown.

Center Tage Thompson’s 38 goals and defenseman Rasmus Dahlin’s 51 assists have powered a breakout season that few saw coming.

With just a handful of games left, the Sabres are right in the thick of a three-team race, and every point matters.

4. Minnesota Wild Minnesota came into the season

with sky-high expectations and has lived up to the hype.

Left wing Kirill Kaprizov’s 43 goals and left wing Matt Boldy’s 41 have turned the Wild into one of the league’s most dangerous offenses. Add in the acquisition of defenseman Quinn Hughes and this team looks built for a deep playoff push.

A first-round matchup with Dallas feels inevitable, and if it happens, expect a physical, hard-fought series with home ice being the difference.

3. Tampa Bay Lightning

Right wing Nikita Kucherov’s 42 goals and goaltender Andrei Vasilevskiy’s dominant season in net have Tampa Bay sitting atop a loaded Atlantic Division. Vasilevskiy leads the league in wins and remains one of the most reliable playoff goaltenders in hockey.

Tampa Bay is not just chasing another Cup, it is looking to remind everyone it never really left.

2. Carolina Hurricanes Carolina has been the model of consistency in the Eastern Conference, but this year feels different.

With multiple deep playoff runs in recent seasons, the Hurricanes are now focused on finally breaking through. Center Seth Jarvis leads the way offensively, while goaltender Brandon Bussi has emerged as one of the season’s biggest surprises. Carolina enters the postseason as a legitimate favorite, but it still has something to prove.

1. Colorado Avalanche

The Avalanche have been a buzzsaw all season.

Colorado was the first team to clinch a playoff spot and is closing in on clinching the Western Conference’s top seed. Center Nathan MacKinnon leads the league with 51 goals, while goaltender Scott Wedgewood has quietly anchored the net with elite numbers.

The Avalanche are not just the best team in the West, they look like the team to beat, period.

Simon Reseigh is a freelance reporter for the Daily Lobo. He can be reached at sports@dailylobo. com or on X @simon_reseigh

By Rodney Prunty @rprunty05

After the previous entry in this beloved series “Life Is Strange: Double Exposure” failed to deliver, Deck Nine Games needed to make sure the next installment steered the franchise back on track. On March 26, “Life Is Strange: Reunion” was released, becoming the seventh installment in the series. While having some minor flaws, “Reunion” largely accomplishes their goal.

“Reunion” picks up where “Double Exposure” left off with fanfavorite protagonist Max Caulfield, but unlike “Double Exposure,” she’s not alone, as they pair her up with her partner in time Chloe Price.

Actress Hannah Telle returns to voice Max, and once again does an incredible job. Chloe is not voiced by her original voice actress Ashly Burch, instead

being voiced by Rhianna DeVries, who voiced Chloe in the prequel to the first game “Life Is Strange: Before the Storm.” The Life Is Strange community was split on the decision on who voiced the character; while DeVries is good as Chloe, Burch is great.

Regardless of the controversy, DeVries still delivers in her return to the character.

“Reunion” has two playable protagonists in Max and Chloe, something no other “Life Is Strange” has done before. When players are playing as Max, they can use her rewind power once again, as Max regained the power after the events of “Double Exposure.” When players are controlling Chloe, they can use her back-talk mechanic introduced in “Before the Storm.”

The game begins when a fire breaks out at Caledon University. Max stumbles upon the fire and,

seeing its chaos and destruction, decides to jump into a photo from three days before the fire starts to prevent it.

During the first day, Max reunites with Chloe and the rest of the story unfolds from there. Chloe’s role in the story makes sense no matter which choice you made at the end of the first game, since Max merged the timelines at the end of “Double Exposure.” While this does negate the player’s choice at the end of the first game, which I am not a fan of, I feel it is executed the best way it could’ve been for the story to work. Max and Chloe are easily the best characters in the game as their chemistry is electric. When the two are not together, they still shine and hold their own in their individual scenes. Max’s best friend Moses Murphey returns again, and outside of the main protagonist, is the next best character in the game. Moses’

role in the game is similar to his role in “Double Exposure,” which works given our familiarity with the character in that game.

Two characters who get a bigger role in “Reunion” are Loretta and Reggie. Originally, they weren’t the most compelling characters, but with more screen time given to the pair, they turn into solid side characters. However, not every character from the previous game works in “Reunion,” as Amanda, Vinh, Lucas and Safi are all middle of the road. Because the other characters mentioned get the majority of the screen time, these middle of the road characters don’t bog down the game.

The music in the game is great and serves as callbacks to the original game, including “Spanish Sahara” by Foals and “Piano Fire” by Sparklehorse and PJ Harvey.

The other songs, including

“Embers in The Sky” by Holly Humberstone and “Isolation” by Daughter, help put together a solid soundtrack.

There are three different endings to the game, and while two of the endings are better than one, the game ends on a beautiful note. After the player’s final choice, the game cuts to a montage of the first game, “Before the Storm” and “Double Exposure,” showing how far Max and Chloe have come.

While I believe the series should’ve stayed an anthology, this is a beautiful conclusion for these iconic characters, making “Life Is Strange: Reunion” a 8/10.

Rodney Prunty is the sports editor for the Daily Lobo. He can be reached at sports@dailylobo.com or on X @rprunty05

Exhibit showcases students’ expressions of nature, culture

By Leila Chapa @lchapa06

Students from two different classes,

“Introduction to Art and Ecology” and “Biodiversity, Creative Practice, Justice,” explored nature journaling as a practice of visual and literary skills, culminating in a showcase beginning last week.

The exhibit, titled Nature Journaling as Environmental Pedagogy, featured spreads of pages from students’ nature journals that they worked on over the semester.

Subhankar Banerjee, the University of New Mexico professor of both classes and founder and director of the Center for Environmental Arts and Humanities, said that he felt the exercise was necessary in a time where students are living in “the

digital space.”

“To have an alternative outlet to engage, not only as a class project, but for their own life, and their own journey of learning at UNM,” Banerjee said.

Each student was given a basic sketchbook and a handful of colored pencils to begin their work.

The exhibition opened on April 10 at the UNM Fine Arts and Design Library, where journal pages are still displaying students’ work on the wall.

Banerjee said that unlike when he joined UNM 10 years ago, he observed that student’s attention spans and engagement has declined.

“Teens, as well as young adults, are spending increasingly more time on the internet,” Banerjee said. “If indeed this little exercise has helped them to engage with the physical,

biological world and their daily experience, and in turn they have expressed that so powerfully and beautifully, meaningfully, critically, on their simple nature journal pages, it’s encouraging in this very moment when a lot of teachers and a lot of students are struggling whether it’s with attention span or so on.”

The nature journal exhibit combines many specific themes, with the intro class focusing on walking, seeing, listening, smelling, touching and tasting and the biodiversity class highlighting overlooked species, multi-species coexistence kinship, caretaking and justice, Banerjee said.

UNM junior Amber Lucero contributed to the exhibit.

“I did one of them on a trip to the Bosque, and what I was hearing while I was there, it was a windy day. I wrote

about the reeds hitting against each other and then the sound of dead leaves as I walked around,” Lucero said. “Taking the time to really write down or think about what you’re actually hearing and experiencing, it has value in the finished product.”

Banerjee shared the experience of master’s student Lila Steffan, who explored the experience of a moth in her art studio.

“She just saw this dead moth in her studio and that sparked a much deeper exploration into moths, trying to understand who this moth is and clearly that moth was a neighbor sharing the same studio, the moth had already passed away and she honored the moth,” Banerjee said.

The exhibit places nature journaling within an academic setting, stating that nature journaling began as early

as the 16th century as an essential practice of naturalists that would inform both their scientific studies and artistic explorations, but they only focus on nature, without getting into elements like cultural, social, political and economic.

Banerjee aims to combine nature and culture, he said.

“How do we revitalize nature journaling which has a deep centuries old history into the current moment and make it relevant for university level education, so it becomes pedagogy at a university, where we are bringing in these cultural elements in nature,” Banerjee said.

Leila Chapa is the social media and photo editor for the Daily Lobo. She can be reached at socialmedia@ dailylobo.com or on X @lchapa06

HAPS

Monday

Birthright of Albuquerque

Providing love, support, and hope to woman both before an after childbirth.

birthright.org/albuquerque

New Volunteers Always Welcome

10AM-1PM; 3228 Candelaria Rd NE

Career Services

K-12 Teacher Virtual Job Fair (505) 277- 2531

Location: Virtual on Handshake

Time: 4:00pm- 6:00pm

Date: Wednesday, April 22

Chicana & Chicano Studies

Curanderismo Traditional Medicine

without Borders Summer Institute

In person: June 1-12, 2026

Online: June 23- July 9, 2026

The Entertainment Guide

Quirky Used Books & More

Books, Puzzles, Stickers, Mugs, Etc.

11 AM - 6 PM | 120 Jefferson St NE

Last Monday poetry with Indiana Poet Tyler Fredrick

Tuesday

Birthright of Albuquerque

Providing love, support, and hope to woman both before and after childbirth. birthright.org/albuquerque

New Volunteers Always Welcome

10AM-1PM; 3228 Candelaria Rd NE

Career Services

K-12 Teacher Virtual Job Fair (505) 277- 2531

Location: Virtual on Handshake Time: 4:00pm- 6:00pm

Date: Wednesday, April 22

St. Thomas of Canterbury

Episcopal Church

425 University Blvd. NE Albuquerque NM 87120

Part of the community of the University of New Mexico for 65 years. Our Service is at 10am with music and Wednesdays at 12:05pm.

Website: canterburyabq.org

Game Night D & D Gaming

Fridays 6:30 pm Please join us if you can. Everyone is welcome!

Chicana & Chicano Studies

Curanderismo Traditional Medicine

without Borders Summer Institute

In person: June 1-12, 2026

Online: June 23- July 9, 2026

Quirky Used Books & More

More than 24,000 Used Books 11 AM - 6 PM 120 Jefferson St NE

Wednesday

Birthright of Albuquerque

Providing love, support, and hope to woman both before and after childbirth. birthright.org/albuquerque

New Volunteers Always Welcome 10AM-1PM; 3228 Candelaria Rd NE

K-12

Career Services

Teacher Virtual Job Fair (505) 277- 2531

Location: Virtual on Handshake Time: 4:00pm- 6:00pm

Date: Wednesday, April 22

Chicana & Chicano Studies

Curanderismo Traditional Medicine

without Borders Summer Institute

In person: June 1-12, 2026

Online: June 23- July 9, 2026

Quirky Used Books & More

Books, Puzzles, Stickers, Mugs, Etc. 11 AM - 6 PM

120 Jefferson St NE

St.Thomas of Canterbury

Episcopal Church Service is at 12:05 PM

Everyone is welcome! 425 University Blvd NE

Thursday

Curanderismo Traditional

Medicine without Borders Summer Institute

In person: June 1-12, 2026

Online: June 23- July 9, 2026

‘Project Hail Mary’ makes unique twist on alien subgenre

By Paulina Acosta-Marta @DailyLobo

When the world is full of darkness and existential threat, how can science fiction adapt? When Earth can be more frightening than space, how can we tell captivating stories that take place beyond our world? You go the other way; you make them heartwarming. That’s exactly what Phil Lord and Chris Miller did.

“Project Hail Mary” is a sci-fi film based on the novel of the same title, released in March 2026, starring Ryan Gosling and directed by Lord and Miller.

The movie starts with Grace, played by Gosling, waking up in space and having no recollection of how he got there. After discovering he’s on a mission to save Earth from a sun-consuming microbe, Grace must overcome odds, finding a best friend along the way.

“Project Hail Mary” has a unique take on the sci-fi genre, as instead of showing invading aliens like in “Independence Day” or saviors of humanity like in “Arrival,” the human main protagonist and his spacefound alien friend have to work

Law from page 1 district court judge about the alleged due process violations, according to the letter, contradicting Pareja’s statement that the settlement was reached the same morning that the law school’s investigative committee was to conduct their hearing.

Second-year law student Kaitlyn Urenda Harrison also wrote a letter in response to Pareja’s March 31 letter to address his suspicion that the primary author of the student open letter Pareja was originally responding to

together and join forces to save their respective species.

The tone of the movie is also less serious, with the main character’s witty personality and often funny responses, well portrayed by the naturally charming Gosling, which adds a comedic flair to the more serious theme.

The thought-out world-building of the science and of the alien’s culture and biology is also something to note. For example, the alien, called Rocky by Grace, is shown living in an environment filled with ammonia, with oxygen being toxic for him. Instances like this make the sci-fi feel more realistic, helping the audience immerse themselves in the created world.

Another unique take has to do with the main character himself.

Instead of following the traditional “stoic superhero” archetype, Grace is a much more relatable person with flaws. When the scientists and most of the prepared astronauts are accidentally killed in an explosion, Grace is the only scientist remaining who can save the world.

The movie dives into complex situations, as Grace is sedated and forced to make it on the one-

was not a student.

“I very much wanted him to know this is being done by students, but they are just so afraid of retaliation that they are operating anonymously,”

Harrison said.

She said she saw Pareja’s letter as disregarding letters sent by prominent state legal organizations.

“The New Mexico Hispanic Bar (Association), the ACLU and a very prominent law firm in the state are all saying, ‘this is not correct, you’re

way mission, but having to face a situation that is out of his hands, Grace finds the strength and courage to save humanity.

You would think he would want to be part of the Earth’s heroes, but he cowers down, as the mission also makes it clear that it is a one-way trip. This allows the main character to develop and grow throughout the story. It is very exciting to see a main character that shows real and raw emotions, as the audience can relate to the fact that having to leave your life in order to save the world can be a tough decision to make.

It is very comforting to watch Grace and Rocky’s relationship unfold. Both have similar experiences, their crew members die, and they are forced to be alone. Rocky the alien is not endearing

saying this incorrectly,’ and being able to display their talents, and their skills, are now being buffed off like ‘that doesn’t really count, you shouldn’t really listen to them, it’s just a small fraction,’” Harrison said.

Harrison said she won’t stop putting pressure until she sees a change in leadership at the law school.

“I will never stop advocating, regardless of the pushback from an institution that I’m trying to graduate

just because of his pure-hearted personality, but also because he was the first one to make contact with Grace, even when Grace was scared and tried to escape him at first.

This is a beautiful lesson; sometimes in our own lives we have to deal with loneliness, but if we are brave enough to make the first move, we open ourselves to new adventures, relationships and experiences that we otherwise wouldn’t have known if we had never tried.

It is refreshing to see more emotionally impactful sci-fi films being made, because it shows that just because it deals with a more realistic world-building, it doesn’t mean that the characters and the plot have to be very “left-brained.”

Having an emotional story with

from,” Harrison said.

In a statement to the Daily Lobo, UNM Communication Director Steve Carr wrote that he received Harrison’s letter but did not receive the letter from Romero and Sanchez.

Carr wrote that he could “have no further comment at this time” besides an April 10 statement previously sent to the Daily Lobo.

“The UNM School of Law is carefully reviewing the concerns that have been raised. Again, we remain

flawed humans that teach valuable lessons only makes the fictional world richer and unforgettable.

This larger-than-life odyssey is worth watching on the big screen. Even though at face value it seems like a charismatic and inspiring movie, it has a profound message for our current times: being openminded to understand and get along with someone different than you and with a different perspective in life, which is important for community building, and even as far as having to save humanity.

Paulina Acosta-Marta is a freelance photographer for the Daily Lobo. She can be reached at culture@dailylobo.com or on X @ dailylobo

firmly committed to advancing the School of Law’s mission and to supporting the students and communities it serves across New Mexico,” the UNM statement reads.

Paloma Chapa is the multimedia editor for the Daily Lobo. She can be reached at multimedia@dailylobo. com or on X @paloma_chapa88

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By Maria Fernandez @DailyLobo

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exterminate Mexican grey wolves and other predators on behalf of the livestock industry, Robinson said. Appropriations continued for every year thereafter, and Mexican grey wolf populations in the western United States declined to the point that by the 1930s there were no wild breeding couples in the Southwest, Robinson said.

In 1945, the last likely U.S.-born wolf in the western United States was killed in southern Colorado, Robinson said. Five years later, USFWS sent salaried personnel and poison to Mexico to show officials there how to exterminate wolves, according to the Wolf Conservation Center.

“It was in order to prevent wolves from coming up from Mexico into the United States,” Robinson said. “It was also to benefit U.S. citizens who owned extensive land and livestock holdings in Mexico.”

After Congress passed the Endangered Species Act in 1973, it was no longer policy to exterminate animals that were seen as adverse to human interests, and there were

seven wolves in captivity, three of which were brought from Mexico whose descendants were bred in captivity, preventing extinction and enabling reintroduction beginning in 1998.

“The fact that we have wildlife now came about specifically because people saw the consequences of no regulation and the general societal ethos of not being concerned for the future and for wildlife persistence,” Robinson said.

Barnett said that issuing “lethal take” permits are ultimately not a solution to wolves preying upon livestock, and criticized the permit’s policies.

“Why does it make sense that once any wolf has been killed, that’s somehow going to solve the problem when they don’t actually know which wolf it is that’s depredating?”

Barnett said. “There has been a lot of research that demonstrates that when you kill a wolf, you can destabilize the pack and actually lead to more depredations, so what we really need to see more of is meaningful coexistence measures

taken by the livestock industry to coexist with native carnivores.”

Barnett said she thinks lethal removal should not be used as a management tool for an endangered species, but that because Mexican grey wolves are listed under the 10-J rule under the Endangered Species Act, agencies are allowed to conduct lethal management.

“The agencies want to retain the ability to kill native carnivores in the event that the livestock industry is claiming that they’re dealing with depredations,” Barnett said. “It’s basically entirely a tool to be used in service of cattle.”

In a statement to the Daily Lobo, USFWS Mexican Wolf Public Affairs Specialist Aislinn Maestas wrote that there are currently no active lethal removal permits for Mexican wolves.

“In accordance with our regulations and recovery permit, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service can issue permits allowing for the lethal removal of Mexican wolves to address chronic livestock depredations,” the statement reads.

In a statement to the Daily Lobo, New Mexico Wild Communications Manager Shaya Torres wrote that since March 16, their organization has gathered 755 public comments urging federal officials to “prioritize science-based, nonlethal conflictprevention strategies.”

Today, the Mexican grey wolf population has increased to around 300. Despite their increased numbers, Robinson said Mexican grey wolf populations have experienced a loss of genetic diversity, which has adverse symptoms including shorter life spans, low reproductive success, illness and birth defects, threatening their survival.

“Loss of genetic diversity is a one-way ratchet towards extinction, unless it can be reversed,” Robinson said.

He said reversal would require that captive Mexican grey wolves are successfully released, and allowed to mate with northern gray wolves in the wild.

Last August, a 3-month-old female pup was shot from the air after the

USFWS authorized U. S. Department of Agriculture personnel to lethally remove one wolf at Dillon Mountain in eastern New Mexico, according to the Center for Biological Diversity.

“We made a profound mistake as a society in dedicating so much resources and government to deliberately exterminating (wolves), and putting them back is a way to right an old wrong,” Robinson said. “They’re beautiful animals, they’re social animals, they’re intelligent animals and we should appreciate them for all they are.”

Leila Chapa is the social media and photo editor for the Daily Lobo. She can be reached at socialmedia@dailylobo.com or on X @lchapa06

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Monday-Sunday, April 6- April 12, 2026

MONDAY

Campus Events

Cereal-ously Ready to Register

7:00am – 12:00pm

Honors College Forum

Students will have the opportunity to get support on the day Honors College registration opens. Hang out, have some cereal-ously good cereal while registering for your next semester. With the support of staff and an Honors advisor.

Manicure Monday

WRC, Group Room

2:30 – 4:00pm

Attend for a DIY manicure. Hang out, relax, meet new people, and do a little self care. Nail polish is provided. Children are welcome.

Stress Reduction Yoga

SUB Room 1045

5:15 – 6:15pm Hosted by Student Health and Counseling.

Workshops00

Abroad 101 Info Session

Mesa Vista Hall, Room 2120

3:30 – 4:30pm Group sessions will review all the mandatory information you need to know before applying to study abroad.

Meetings

Disabled Student Union Meeting

Women’s Resource Center Group Room

10:30am – 12:00pm

Chinese Club Study Session

LLC, Ortega, Room 124

1:00 – 3:00pm Conversation group follows.

Counseling Skills Support Group

Manzanita Counseling Center

2:00 – 4:00pm

Guided discussions and practical tools in a supportive, confidential space to practice self-care, improve time management, reduce stress, navigate life transitions, strengthen relationships and communication.

Honors Student Association

General Meeting

Honors College Forum

5:30 – 7:30pm Art & Music

Double Reed Studio Recital

Keller Hall

7:00 – 8:30pm Featuring the students of Professor Denise Turner and Dr. Jillian Kouzel. Penelope Teixeira

Keller Hall

8:00 – 9:15pm Graduate cello recital.

Lectures & Readings

Thesis/Dissertation Presentation

Logan Room 125

8:30 – 9:30am

Antonia Young, Psychology, presents “Mixed Methods Moderation Analysis of Historical Trauma, Enculturation, and Drinking among Southwest Indigenous Young Adults.”

Thesis/Dissertation Presentation

Anthropology Room 248

10:00 – 11:00am Nicollette Appel, Anthropology, presents “Disparities Between Chronological and Biological Age: A Biocultural Analysis of Aging in Contemporary Populations.”

Director’s Lectureship Seminar

Series UNMCCC Auditorium 11:30am – 1:00pm

Dr. William A. Calo, Pennsylvania State University, presents “From Research to HPV Cancer Prevention: Turning What We Know to What We Do.”

Thesis/Dissertation Presentation

Domenici North Wing Room 3710 1:00 – 2:00pm Marissa Westenskow, Biomedical Science Graduate Program, presents “Molecular Dissection Of Microrna-150-5p Upregulation By Prenatal Alcohol Exposure.”

Thesis/Dissertation Presentation

Parish Library

1:00 – 2:00pm Paris Baldante, English, presents “Aerial View.”

CSWR Graduate Fellow Panel and Display Panel Water Room

1:30 – 3:30pm In Process: Graduate Students Activating Archives, Art, and Community Knowledge.

Discovery Series: AI Benefits Panel Honors College Forum

4:00 – 5:00pm Student Panel on the Benefits of AI.

TUESDAY

Campus Events

Recovery in Academia

SHAC Workshop Room 16

12:30 – 1:30pm Skills based support for mental health and substance abuse.

Events are free unless otherwise noted!

Bingo Night in the Library Zimmerman Library Ford Room 254 6:00 – 7:00pm Hosted by the INLP and LRE.

Lectures & Readings

Thesis/Dissertation Presentation Castetter Hall 107 9:00 – 10:00am Katelyn Driscoll, Biology, presents “Reassembling Riparian Ecosystems: Stream Restoration Effects on Vegetation, Arthropods, and Aquatic-Terrestrial Connectivity.”

Thesis/Dissertation Presentation Center for Environmental Research, Informatics, & the Arts Room 337 10:00 – 11:00am Shayne Halter, Biology, presents “Energy Management and Water Balance in Migrating Hummingbirds.”

Thesis/Dissertation Presentation PAIS Room 1010

10:00 – 11:00am

Miles Kelsey, Earth & Planetary Sciences, presents “Quantifying CO2 and CH4 Fluxes in a semi-arid floodplain - Assessing drivers of magnitude and timing.”

Thesis/Dissertation Presentation PAIS Room 1010

10:00 – 11:00am

Sarah Shrum, Biology, presents “From Cranes to Clinics: Genomic epidemiology of pathogens at the human-animal interface.”

Nuclear, Particle, Astroparticle and Cosmology (NUPAC) Seminars PAIS Room 3205

2:00 – 3:00pm Wilber Dominguez, UNM, presents.

Thesis/Dissertation Presentation Center for Environmental Research, Informatics, & the Arts Room 337

2:00 – 3:00pm Joseph Ferreri, Electrical Computer Engineering, presents “Evaluating Intracavity Electromagnetic Field Probes and Sources: Implications for Shielding Effectiveness Testing.” , presents “Forests and Thistles.”

Meetings

Bosque Linguistics Association LLC, Ortega Room 120 4:00 – 5:00pm Study session. Help with coursework, exam prep, any linguistics questions, or just want to hang out.

Art & Music

Double Reed Studio Recital

Keller Hall 7:00 – 8:30pm

Featuring the students of Professor Denise Turner and Dr. Jillian Kouzel.

Workshops

Delivering Presentations Zimmerman Library Room 254 and Zoom 12:30 – 1:30pm Attend this interactive workshop to learn about what it takes to orally deliver both oral and poster presentations effectively and with confidence. This session will help presenters in the personal preparation, comfort with presenting, and the constructive feedback process. The daily e-mail calendar will have the Zoom link.

Lab safety matters! 3:30 – 4:30pm Zoom Series that will prepare you for lab work, or make you a more valuable lab mate. The daily e-mail calendar will have the Zoom link.

Sports & Recreation

UNM Baseball vs Texas Tech Lobo Baseball Field 2:00 – 4:00pm Tickets are free for students but must be acquired online.

WEDNESDAY

Campus Events

Crafternoon Women’s Resource Center 12:00 – 2:30pm

ASUNM Full Senate Meeting SUB, Lobo A/B 6:00 – 8:00pm Lectures & Readings

Biology Brown Bag Seminar Castetter Hall Room 100 12:00 – 1:00pm Dr. Ellen Wohl, Colorado State University, presents.

STEAM Webinar 12:00 – 1:00pm

“Mechanisms of Advanced and Energy-Efficient Wastewater Treatment.”

Thesis/Dissertation Presentation Ortega Hall Room 124 3:00 – 4:00pm Mia Del Rosario, Spanish Portuguese, presents “Al-Manfiyun exiliados: Descendant Voices of the Lebanese Diaspora in Mexican Literature.”

Thesis/Dissertation Presentation PAIS Room 2540 4:00 – 5:00pm Andrew Forbes, Physics Astronomy, presents “A Quantum Phase Space Description of Local Noise in Atomic Ensembles.”

Workshops

STEAM & COPH Presents: Writing

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celebration of diverse cultures, mesmerizing performances, and mouthwatering global cuisine.

Spring Cuddle a Canine Zimmerman Library Cactus Garden

11:00am – 1:00pm This long-standing University Libraries event offers students, faculty and staff a chance to relax, de-stress and connect with therapy dogs and their dedicated owners from the Southwest Canine Corps of Volunteers.

Tea Time with Andy AISS 1119 Mesta Vista Hall

12:00 – 1:30pm Take a break, grab a snack, & come hang with the AISS Director.

Senior Send-Off

Hodgin Hall Alumni Center

12:00 – 4:00pm New graduates, get ready for your next chapter at UNM Alumni’s Senior Send-Off. This free event is packed with resources to set you up for success.

Provost-Deans Conversation Series Honors College Forum

3:30 – 5:00pm Honors college event.

Open Table Connections Dinner and Dialogue Luther House

5:00 – 7:00pm Free weekly meal, along with text study, prayer, spiritual practices, public theology intentional community and advocacy for justice and peace.

Lectures & Readings

OSE Seminar

PAIS Room 2540

12:30 – 1:45pm

Dr. Jason Jones, University of

Arizona, presents.

Thesis/Dissertation Presentation

Castetter Hall Room 100

12:30 – 1:30pm

Emily Reynebeau, Biology, presents “Persistent Diversity In An Isolated Ecosystem.”

CART Astrophysics Seminar

PAIS Room 3205

2:00 – 3:00pm Joyce Guzik, LANL, presents.

Philosophy Colloquium

3:00 – 4:00pm Rebecca Comay, University of Toronto, presents.

O’Neil Lecture

Mitchell Hall Room 122

3:30 – 4:30pm

Rebecca Comay, University of Toronto, presents “Endgame of Art, Endgame of Politics: Hegel’s Aesthetics.”

Biology Seminar

Castetter Hall Room 100

3:30 – 5:00pm Dr. Marcy Litvak, UNM, presents.

Department of Chemistry & Chemical Biology Seminar

Clark Hall Room 201

4:00 – 5:00pm

Dr. Frank Neese, Max Planck Institut für Kohlenforschung, presents “How to Combine High-Level Spectroscopy with Quantum Chemistry to Study Reaction Mechanisms.”

Artist Talk

ARTSLab

5:00 – 7:00pm

Erika Blumenfeld (b. 1971, USA) is an artist, researcher, and writer whose transdisciplinary practice explores our material and poetic kinship with the natural world and cosmos.

Global Events Lecture

Albuquerque Country Club

6:00 – 7:00pm

John J. Mearsheimer, University of Chicago, presents “The Program: US Foreign Policy in a Multipolar World.”

Art & Music

Rinaldo Keller Hall

7:30 – 9:00pm Directed by Dr. Olga Perez Flora and conducted by Dr. Kristin Ditlow, with the musicians of the UNM Opera Theatre and UNM Opera Orchestra. . Tickets start at $11.50.

Meetings

Disabled Student Union Meeting Women’s Resource Center Group Room 12:30 – 2:00pm Family & Friends Cancer Support Group CCC Education Wing 4:00 – 5:30pm A journaling support group for anyone who has a loved one with cancer, a loved one who has survived cancer, and/or a loved one who has died from cancer.

Workshops

STEAM & COPH Presents: Writing Accountability Groups

Zoom 1:00 – 2:00pm Join Dr. Dolores Guest and Dr. Martha Grimes for one to two hours of focused, independent writing. Each writing group time is designed to support your individual goal achievement.The daily e-mail calendar will have the Zoom link.

FRIDAY

Campus Events

Undergraduate Research

Opportunities Conference SUB Ballroom 9:00am – 4:00pm

See the amazing student research students are doing.

The Hitchcock-Kelly Fund for Human and Indigenous Peoples’ Rights Graduate Student Symposium Hibben Center 105 12:00 – 5:00pm

The projects include annual support of student-related research and applied activities to advance and bring attention to human rights and Indigenous peoples’ rights. The symposium will feature graduate students who have received funding from the Hitchcock-Kelly Fund to present their research.

Lectures & Readings

The Hitchcock-Kelly Fund for Human and Indigenous Peoples’ Rights Graduate Student Symposium Hibben Center 105 12:00 – 5:00pm The symposium will feature graduate students who have received funding from the Hitchcock-Kelly Fund to present their research.

CMBD Seminar Series Fitz Hall Room 303

12:00 – 1:00pm

The Cellular and Molecular Basis of Disease (CMBD) Series is the Health Sciences Center’s most prestigious seminar series and is meant to enhance biomedical science education by hosting high-profile scientists to speak on current topics in biomedical research.

Economic Seminar Economics Department Room 1002 2:00 – 3:00pm

Dr. Eric Edwards, University of California, presents.

O’Neil Lecture Mitchell Hall Room 122

3:30 – 4:30pm Rebecca Comay, University of Toronto, presents “Lumpentragedy: The Eighteenth Brumaire.” Physics and Astronomy Colloquium PAIS Room 1100 3:30 – 4:30pm David Hayes, University of Maryland, presents.

Department of Chemistry & Chemical Biology Seminar Castetter Hall Room 101

4:00 – 5:00pm Sergei Ivanov, Los Alamos National Laboratory, presents “Colloidal Synthesis of Complex Nanostructures: Control and Structural Insight.”

Meetings

Nahuatl Club Weekly Meeting

Latin American and Iberian Institute Room 107

3:30 – 5:00pm Nahuatl variant presentation. Everyone is welcome. No previous experience with the language is required.

Japanese Language And Culture Club SUB Sandia 5:00 – 6:00pm

Art & Music

Peace Dæmon Opening Reception Tamarind Institute 5:00 – 7:00pm Yoma Wilson, UNM, presents.

Rinaldo Keller Hall

7:30 – 9:00pm

Directed by Dr. Olga Perez Flora and conducted by Dr. Kristin Ditlow, with the musicians of the UNM Opera Theatre and UNM Opera Orchestra. . Tickets start at $11.50.

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healthnut buddy Nick, Anna discovers that true happiness is more than sixpack abs.

Cherry Reel Film Festival Popejoy Hall

6:00 – 8:30pm The 11th Annual Cherry Reel Film Festival is the UNM student film festival connecting student filmmakers with film professionals in New Mexico. This event will showcase approximately 30 films and awarding five.

SATURDAY

ABQ

10:00am – 5:30pm

and galleries.

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Spring Demo Show Regener Hall Auditorium Room 103

12:00 – 1:00pm Live physics demonstrations presented by members of UNM’s Society of Physics Students and faculty, illustrating basic physics principles for all ages.

Holi Celebrations

Johnson Field 1:00 – 4:00pm Global education office event.

Foldlab: Studio Ghibli Night 4:00 – 6:30pm ARTSLab

Join FoldLab, the student origami club, for an evening of art, boba, and paper folding.

Theater & Film

New Mexico Philharmonic Popejoy Hall

6:00 – 7:00pm Classics 6: French Meanderings. Tickets start at $41.50.

The Three Sopranos Popejoy Hall

6:00 – 7:00pm An evening of passion, power, and unforgettable voices. Join the NMPhil for The Three Sopranos, a spectacular showcase of operatic brilliance and orchestral drama. Featuring the dazzling vocal talents, this program brings beloved arias and ensembles to life in an unforgettable night at the symphony. . Tickets start at $41.50.

Art & Music

Rinaldo Keller Hall

7:30 – 9:00pm

Directed by Dr. Olga Perez Flora and conducted by Dr. Kristin Ditlow, with the musicians of the UNM Opera Theatre and UNM Opera Orchestra. Tickets start at $11.50.

Sports & Recreation

UNM Women’s Softball vs Fresno State Lobo Softball Field

2:00 – 4:00pm Tickets are free for students but must be acquired online.

UNM Baseball vs Nevada Lobo Baseball Field

2:00 – 4:00pm Tickets are free for students but must be acquired online.

SUNDAY

Theater & Film

The Screwtape Letters Popejoy Hall 3:00 – 4:30pm Witness a fast-paced, tour-de-force performance in this acclaimed adaptation of C.S. Lewis’ satiric masterpiece. Tickets start at $78.

Art & Music

Rinaldo Keller Hall 7:30 – 9:00pm

Directed by Dr. Olga Perez Flora and conducted by Dr. Kristin Ditlow, with the musicians of the UNM Opera Theatre and UNM Opera Orchestra. Tickets start at $11.50.

UNM Women’s Softball vs Fresno

2:00 – 4:00pm Tickets are free for students but must be acquired online.

UNM Baseball vs Nevada Lobo Baseball Field

2:00 – 4:00pm

Tickets are free for students but must be acquired online.

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Ruiqi Xu MFA Thesis John Sommers Gallery April 6 – 17, 2026 Ruiqi Xu, UNM, presents.

An Anthology of Arroyo Logics ni de aquí, ni de allá

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April 3 – 24, 2026

MFA Thesis Exhibition by Daniela del Mar.

Peace Dæmon

April 13 – 27, 2026

Tamarid Institue Yoma Wilson, UNM, presents.

Metal Rules!

Through May 2, 2026

INHABIT Galerie; 4436 Corrales Rd

MFA Thesis. Participating

Artists: Bailey Anderson, Bruna D’Alessandro, Welly Fletcher, Shirley Klinghoffer, Stephanie Lerma, Iulia Octavia, Karen Yank.

Seeds of Compromise

AC2 Gallery 301 Mountain Rd NE

April 11 – May 11, 2026

MFA Thesis Exhibition by Saul Ramirez.

Sachika Goel MFA Thesis

Open Space Visitor Center

April 10 – July 30, 2026

Sachika Goel, UNM, presents.

One Earth, One Kin

Spectra Art Gallery, Honors College Through Spring 2026

The exhibit showcases connection and kinship with the earth through the eyes of student artists. Pieces by Arwen Lynch-Poe, Caitlyn Bizzell, Leo Brocker, Loui Burton, Maria Paez, Noheya Behay, and Phaera Fields.

Ancestors

Maxwell Museum of Anthropology

Permanent Exhibit

Ancestors will lead you through those aspects of modern humanity that makes us unique and successful, tracing the path of evolution through the past four million years.

People of the Southwest

Maxwell Museum of Anthropology

Permanent Exhibit

This exhibition celebrates the cultural history of the Southwest, especially the close relationship southwestern people have had with the land around them.

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