HOUSE MEMORIAL 49

57th legislature - STATE OF NEW MEXICO - second session, 2026

INTRODUCED BY

Dayan Hochman-Vigil

 

 

 

 

 

A MEMORIAL

DECLARING FEBRUARY 4, 2026 "UNM DAY" IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.

 

     WHEREAS, the university of New Mexico was founded in 1889 and is the state's flagship university; and

     WHEREAS, the university of New Mexico currently serves more than twenty-eight thousand students across all of its campuses and employs tens of thousands of New Mexico residents, including employees of the university of New Mexico hospital; and

     WHEREAS, in 2025, more than five thousand students received degrees from the university of New Mexico's main and branch campuses, including approximately three thousand four hundred bachelor's degrees, more than nine hundred master's degrees, one hundred eight juris doctorates and ninety-seven medical doctorates; and

     WHEREAS, the university of New Mexico awarded more than one hundred ninety-one million dollars ($191,000,000) in scholarships in the 2024-2025 academic year; and

     WHEREAS, there are more than two hundred thousand active alumni, with lobos in every state, including one hundred twenty-four thousand in New Mexico; and

     WHEREAS, since 1996, the university of New Mexico has disclosed two thousand six hundred sixty-one new inventions and filed one thousand nine hundred thirty-five patent applications, and in 2024, the last full year of reporting, the university of New Mexico filed for seventy patents, with thirty-three patents issued; and

     WHEREAS, the university of New Mexico health sciences center is the state's largest integrated health care treatment, research and educational organization, with national recognition for primary care, rural medicine, family medicine, nursing and midwifery, and is home to the state's only national-cancer-institute-designated comprehensive cancer center; and

     WHEREAS, the university of New Mexico hospital is the only level one trauma center for the state and sees approximately one million patient visits per year; and

     WHEREAS, the university of New Mexico, as the state of New Mexico's premier Carnegie-designated "Research 1" institution, provides a research-driven education where faculty members engage in investigation and scholarship that create new knowledge, which brings sustained wealth to New Mexico's economy; and

     WHEREAS, the university of New Mexico is a community of unique perspectives that embraces peoples' differences and celebrates a culture of contrast rather than a contrast of cultures; and

     WHEREAS, the university of New Mexico is the university for New Mexico;

     NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE STATE OF NEW MEXICO that February 4, 2026 be declared "UNM Day" in the house of representatives in recognition of the university of New Mexico's service and dedication to the residents of New Mexico; and

     BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a copy of this memorial be transmitted to the president of the university of New Mexico.

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