WASHINGTON, Dec. 23 (TNSFR) -- The Harvard University Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, has completed an inventory of Native American human remains and associated funerary objects and determined cultural affiliation with multiple Tribal Nations in Arizona and New Mexico. The action is being carried out under the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act and involves ancestral remains representing at least 148 individuals, along with 30 associated  more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 22 -- Sen. Ben Ray Lujan, D-New Mexico, issued the following news release: * * * Lujan Applauds Committee Passage of Legislation toProvide Greater Cooperation between the Federal Government and Land Grant Communities * Washington, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator Ben Ray Lujan (D-N.M.) applauded the passage of the New Mexico Land Grant-Mercedes Historical or Traditional Use Cooperation and Coordination Act in the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. This legislation w  more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 22 -- Sen. Ben Ray Lujan, D-New Mexico, issued the following news release: * * * Lujan Statement on Trump Administration's Failure to Release All Epstein Files * Washington, D.C. - U.S. Senator Ben Ray Lujan (D-N.M.) issued the following statement after the Department of Justice refused to release the full Epstein files: "Today is the deadline for the Trump administration and the Department of Justice to release all of the documents related to the Epstein files. The DOJ wa  more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 22 -- Sen. Ben Ray Lujan, D-New Mexico, issued the following news release: * * * Lujan, Schiff, Colleagues Blast FCC Efforts to Strip Broadband Price Transparency Labels for Consumers, Demand Reversal * Washington, D.C. U.S. Senators Ben Ray Lujan (D-N.M.), Ranking Member of the Senate Commerce Committee's Subcommittee on Telecommunications and Media, and Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) led six senators to urge Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Brendan Carr to reverse   more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 22 -- Sen. Ben Ray Lujan, D-New Mexico, issued the following news release: * * * Lujan: Fighting for New Mexicans in 2025 * Lujan Saved Over $7.4 Million for New Mexicans, Closed 1,204 Constituent Cases in 2025 VIDEO : A Message From Senator Lujan to New Mexicans Washington, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator Ben Ray Lujan (D-N.M.) highlighted legislative victories, constituent services successes, and efforts to push back against extreme policies that hurt New Mexicans in 2025.   more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 22 -- Sen. Ben Ray Lujan, D-New Mexico, issued the following news release: * * * N.M. Delegation Calls on Trump Administration to Support State's Application for Federal Rural Health Transformation Program Funding * Washington, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senators Ben Ray Lujan (D-N.M) and Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), along with U.S. Representatives Teresa Leger Fernandez (D-N.M.), Melanie Stansbury (D-N.M.), and Gabe Vasquez (D-N.M.), sent a letter to the Centers for Medicare & Medicai  more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 22 -- Sen. Ben Ray Lujan, D-New Mexico, issued the following news release: * * * N.M. Delegation Condemns Trump's Plan to Cut Veterans Health Administration Positions * WASHINGTON U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), a member of the U.S. Senate Military Construction and Veterans Affairs Appropriations Subcommittee, U.S. Senator Ben Ray Lujan (D-N.M.), and U.S. Representatives Teresa Leger Fernandez (D-N.M.), Melanie Stansbury (D-N.M.), and Gabe Vasquez (D-N.M.) released th  more

ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico, Dec. 22 -- The University of New Mexico posted the following news: * * * New Mexico in Focus 2025 Rewind: Ruidoso Floods; Healing a Burn Scar * New Mexico in Focus revisits some of its most impactful field reports of the year, highlighting communities responding to disaster, recovery and change. Host Nash Jones travels to the Mescalero Apache Reservation for a community feedback meeting organized by the New Mexico Public Education Department. In the segment, which   more

LAS CRUCES, New Mexico, Dec. 22 -- New Mexico State University issued the following news release: * * * NM Produced Water Research Consortium at NMSU expands community education, outreach * The New Mexico Produced Water Research Consortium is expanding its statewide outreach efforts to help communities better understand produced water, water scarcity and the science shaping future water decisions in New Mexico. The Consortium is a collaborative effort between New Mexico State University and   more

OXFORD, England, Dec. 22 -- Oxford Economics, a corporate, financial and government decision-makers and thought leaders adviser, issued the following consulting report on December 22, 2025, entitled "The socioeconomic impacts of Urenco USA's National Enrichment Facility, Eunice, New Mexico." Here are excerpts: * * * The report focuses on the socioeconomic contribution of UUSA's National Enrichment Facility in Eunice, New Mexico in 2024. It provides an assessment of the economic contribution  more

SANTA FE, New Mexico, Dec. 22 [Category: Political] -- Santa Fe Institute posted the following news release: * * * Review: Allocation, Distribution, and Policy by Bowles and Chen * Review by SFI External Professor Suresh Naidu (Columbia University) Over the past 40 years, the field of microeconomics has gone through a revolution in real-world applications, yet the theoretical models taught in Ph.D. coursework have been slow to catch up. In a new textbook, SFI Professor Sam Bowles and Weik  more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 23 (TNSFR) -- The U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service, Salinas Pueblo Missions National Monument, Mountainair, New Mexico, has announced its intent to repatriate a Native American cultural item following a determination made under the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act. After completing a review of museum records, inventories, and consultations, the monument identified a single unassociated funerary object in its custody that is culturally   more

SANTA FE, New Mexico, Dec. 22 [Category: Political] -- Santa Fe Institute posted the following news release: * * * SFI launches Synthetic Imagination series * Written by SFI Research Fellow Anthony Eagan Since the origins of modern philosophy and poetry, imagination has been a technical term for the human ability to cognize in images and thought combinations that reconfigure our memories or immediate experience. Gaston Bachelard puts this well in his book Air and Dreams when he writes, "W  more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 23 (TNSFR) -- The U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service, Tonto National Forest, Phoenix, Arizona, has completed a comprehensive inventory of Native American human remains and associated funerary objects recovered from multiple archaeological sites within Gila and Maricopa counties in Arizona. Following this review, the forest determined that the remains and objects are culturally affiliated with several present-day Tribal Nations in Arizona and New Mexico, clearing the w  more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 23 -- Sen. Martin Heinrich, D-New Mexico, ranking member of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, issued the following news release on Dec. 22, 2025: * * * Trump's Assault on Wind Energy Leaves Permitting Reform Dead in the Water Today, U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), Ranking Member of the U.S. Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, and U.S. Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.), Ranking Member of the Environment and Public Works Committee (EPW), iss  more

ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico, Dec. 22 -- The University of New Mexico posted the following news: * * * UNM art MFA alum Kerry Cottle builds a career blending material and meaning * Kerry Cottle is emerging as a rising voice in contemporary painting, with exhibitions across California and a practice shaped by hands-on experimentation and sustainable materials. After graduating from The University of New Mexico's College of Fine Arts with her MFA in 2022, Cottle relocated to Sacramento, Calif. wh  more

ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico, Dec. 22 -- The University of New Mexico posted the following news: * * * UNM Professor Chris Cornelius inducted into National Academy University of New Mexico architecture professor Chris Cornelius was honored with induction into the National Academy, the leading honorary society for visual arts and architecture in the United States. "This is a first for the School of Architecture and Planning, and a first for UNM," Dean Robert Gonzalez said. "We are continuously im  more