Eighth-grader Zach Auster won first place in the Academy Spelling Bee earlier this week, competing against 27 sixth, seventh, and eighth grade students to win the title. The winning word was “gravigrade.” Hannah Park ’22 earned a second place finish. The first and second place winners were declared in eleven rounds. It took another eight rounds to determine […]

Twelve Albuquerque Academy band students have been selected to participate in the All-State Music festival in January. The students and bands are: Symphonic Band Kobie Boslough ’16, Oboe Paul Devine ’17, Trombone Matt Goff ’16, Oboe Hugh Jenkins ’16, Clarinet Annie Spahn ’17, Clarinet Ann Thompson ’18, Horn Concert Orchestra Jeremy Wesevich ’18, Piccolo Concert […]

Three Albuquerque Academy seniors were recently honored as Outstanding Youth in Philanthropy by the Association of Fundraising Professionals. Samsara Duravasula ‘16, Shannon Fonseca ‘16, and Elizabeth Moeser ‘16 were presented the award at the annual National Philanthropy Day luncheon on November 4, 2015. They were selected for the award because of their volunteer efforts in our community, but especially […]

Ten Albuquerque Academy students have been selected to participate in the All-State Music Festival Orchestra in January. The students selected are: Henry Berry ’18, Nathaniel Byram ’18, Rachel Jones ’18, Anna Lee ’18, Jenny Lee ’17, Holly Liu ’16, Molly McCarthy ’17, Sage Min ’19, Maya Taylor ’18, and Lauren White ’18.

History faculty member Rich Field’s book, From the Sands of the Arena: Ancient World Trivia for the 21st Century, was recently published. From questions that make us slap our foreheads to questions that leave us staring off, the trivia questions in this book form a mosaic of the ancient Greek and Roman world. The book is […]

The College Board recently announced 23 Albuquerque Academy students in the Class of 2016 have been named 2015-16 National Hispanic Recognition Program (NHRP) Scholars. The College Board’s NHRP identifies academically outstanding Hispanic/Latino high school students. Each year, about 5,000 Hispanic/Latino students are selected from a pool of over 250,000 who take the Preliminary SAT/NMSQT. These […]

English department faculty member John Knapp was published in this year’s edition of the scholarly journal 1650–1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era (AMS Press, 2015). His article, titled “Akenside’s Hymn to the Naiads and the Turn from the Ode,” covers the topic of 18th-century lyric poetry. There will be a copy of the article in […]

Albuquerque Academy’s Classical Guitar Quartet was recently invited to perform at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. According to Performing Arts faculty member Mickey Jones, the invitation came from the head of the conservatory guitar program, David Tannenbaum, who has admired Academy students very much over the years for their obvious talents, intellectual rigor, and willingness […]

For the fifth year in a row, more students from Albuquerque Academy than from any other program in New Mexico were selected to participate in the All-State Guitar Ensemble. Along with the most overall students, Academy students earned three of the top four spots in the ensemble. The students participating are: Ryan Benavides ’19, Andrew Chu ’16, Richard Dargan […]

The National Merit® Scholarship Corporation announced last week that 27 Albuquerque Academy seniors have been named Semifinalists in the 2016 National Merit Scholarship Program. This spring these students will have an opportunity to continue in the competition for some 7,400 National Merit Scholarships worth more than $32 million. Commenting on this announcement, Albuquerque Academy’s Head […]