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+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 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
+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
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-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
+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
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+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
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+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,
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 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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