El Son de la Gila Mariachi Conference Brings High School Musicians to WNMU
SILVER CITY, NM – The sound of mariachi music could be heard throughout the western part of the Western New Mexico University campus June 4-6, as the university hosted El Son de la Gila, its annual mariachi conference. Drawing students and their mariachi directors from across the southwest, the conference provided an opportunity for high […]
Six WNMU Faculty and Staff to Retire
SILVER CITY, NM—The Western New Mexico University community congratulates six of its own who are retiring from the university. Professor of English Language and Literature Deborah Heller has been with the university since 1992. In addition to teaching at the undergraduate and graduate levels, she has also served as Director of Writing Across the Curriculum […]
New Mexico Family Inducted into the WNMU College of Education Hall of Fame
SILVER CITY, NM—When Jesús and María Luisa Quiñones immigrated from Santa Bárbara, Chihuahua to Grant County, New Mexico with their three eldest children, they probably could not imagine the contributions their family would make to the field of education in the United State. This spring, however, the Quiñones family was inducted into the Western New […]