Links to past events have already been taken down.
But yes Google did recruit at UNM last year.
Everything in science, engineering and computer science is done in connection with LANL and SNL. Many (Most?) physical science, engineering and comp sci faculty hold joint appointments/joint contracts at one of the National Labs. Just the way the university runs. Just because any project has LANL or SNL added on to it as a sponsor means next to nothing.
NM can be a fairly schizophrenic place to live. On the one hand, NM has the highest per capita number of STEM PhDs in the nation. On the other, outside of ABQ-Los Alamos corridor, NM is poor and rural with a struggling public education system.
UNM enrolls a large portion of the offspring of those STEM PhDs so there is decent pool of high achieving students.
However, over 50% of UNM students receive Pell grants. (The median income for a family of 4 in NM is just over $36K/year.) 1/3 of UNM freshman–particularly those coming from low resource public high schools outside of I-25 corridor-- require remedial coursework in math, writing or both.
So UNM’s student enrollment reflects the state–a pool of strong, high achieving students with a pool of economically and educational disadvantaged students.
UNM declining enrollment reflects that fact even with the Lottery Scholarship program college is just too expensive for many NM families. (The Lottery requires all students today for their first semester of college OOP. In subsequent years, the lottery pays~ 70% of tuition (varies by legislative fiat year-to-year) and zero toward fees. Plus students still need to have about $11k/year for room & board.) Also NM’s major industries (oil & gas production, farming & ranching, tourism) do not require a college education. In recent years the booming energy economy and tourism industry have employed many young adults who might otherwise have gone to college.