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The University of New Mexico’s website said until last week that the campus “boasts an outstanding faculty that includes a Nobel Laureate, two MacArthur Foundation fellows, 35 Fulbright scholars and several members of national academies.” But the Nobel laureate and MacArthur “genius grant” fellows haven’t taught in many years and are all dead, the Albuquerque Journal reported. The university removed those references once the newspaper inquired about them. But they’d already been cited recently by other news outlets regarding New Mexico’s academic standing.
A university spokesperson told the Journal that the marketing department made an unfortunate, unintentional error and plans on making a new, regularly updated webpage for faculty accomplishments.
Murray Gell-Mann won a Nobel Prize in physics in 1969, left New Mexico in the '00s and died in May. MacArthur fellows Beaumont Newhall, an art historian, and Alfonso Ortiz, a cultural anthropologist, both died in the 1990s.
