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Research shows more bikes equal safer roads for all

By Kim Delker June 26, 2019

Contrary to conventional wisdom, cities where there are higher percentages of bicyclists are actually safer for all road users than cities where fewer citizens are biking, according to a study by a University of New Mexico researcher. The study,...

UNM paves the road into the future for Quantum Information Science

By Natalie Rogers June 24, 2019

Imagine a future of cyber-transactions with unbreakable encryption. Thermometers that never need calibration. Near-absolute measurements of time. Medications customized at the molecular level. These advances are imaginable because of new support for...

Volunteers needed to help welcome students to campus

June 24, 2019

UNM Residence Life and Student Housing is hosting its annual Operation Lobo Move-In from August 13 to 17 and is looking for volunteers to help welcome over 2,000 residents to campus. Anyone interested can click on this link to sign-up. Volunteers can...

Regents' Professor awarded Stanford fellowship

By Rachel Whitt June 24, 2019

A UNM Regents’ Professor will be spending a year at Stanford, furthering her research on lost memories of refugees and the politics of commemoration. Eleni Bastéa, UNM Regents’ Professor of Architecture, won a prestigious External Faculty Fellowship at...

UNM scientists discover new antiviral roles for olfactory neurons in fish

June 24, 2019

There are thousands upon thousands of viruses in our various environments affecting our everyday life in a variety of ways. Many of those viruses infect humans by entering and exploiting the nasal route. Scientists at The University of New Mexico are...

Research institute brings young scholars from around the U.S. to UNM

By Kim Delker June 23, 2019

The University of New Mexico School of Engineering is again partnering with Sandia National Laboratories’ Nonlinear Mechanics and Dynamics (NOMAD) Summer Research Institute. The summer program, which brings together graduate students and researchers...

Community internship collaboration seeks business mentors

By Nancy Coombs June 21, 2019

The University of New Mexico-Los Alamos (UNM-LA) announced recently the continuation of the Community Internship Collaboration (CIC) program in the Fall 2019 semester. UNM-LA is seeking local business partners to expand the range of internships available to...

$Math faculty member awarded fellowship at Cornell$

Math faculty member awarded fellowship at Cornell

By Rachel Whitt June 21, 2019

A University of New Mexico associate professor is trading the adobe pueblo architecture and high desert beauty of UNM for the brick Romanesque Revival style and green grounds of Cornell University. Anna Skripka, an associate professor in the Department...

UNM’s Solar Splash team finishes fourth overall in national contest

By Kim Delker June 21, 2019

The University of New Mexico’s Solar Splash team finished in fourth place overall in the national Solar Splash contest in Springfield, Ohio, in addition to winning other awards. Solar Splash was held June 11-15, with 17 solar-powered boat teams from...

UNM alumna named nation's 23rd Poet Laureate

By Rachel Whitt June 20, 2019

Critically-acclaimed poet and former UNM student and faculty member Joy Harjo is the new United States Poet Laureate – the first Native American to hold the position. “It’s not just me carrying this title, it has to do with my family, my people, this...

UNM alumna named nation's 23rd Poet Laureate

By Rachel Whitt June 20, 2019

New UNM study aims to learn why particular treatments work for alcohol use disorders

By Steve Carr June 17, 2019

In 2015 approximately 16 million people in the United States had an Alcohol Use Disorder (AUD), including 15.1 million adults and about 625,000 adolescents ages 12–17. About twice as many men as women have an AUD. There are numerous approaches to...

Rare George Orwell collection donated to UNM Libraries

By Rachel Whitt June 17, 2019

A longtime advocate and employee of UNM University Libraries is donating his collection of rare George Orwell books. Russ Davidson, University of New Mexico professor and curator emeritus, is both an avid collector of Orwell books and a great supporter...

UNM researchers get award for unique project

By Mary Beth King June 20, 2019

Two researchers at The University of New Mexico recently received an award of more than $580,000 from the Army Research Office for a project named Supersymmetry in Optics: Beyond Traditional Supersymmetric Quantum Mechanics, an eye-watering title to the...

Visiting scholars will use UNM resources to delve into region’s history

June 17, 2019

Gabriel Meléndez, director of the Center for Regional Studies (CRS) at The University of New Mexico, has announced that visiting scholars Vanessa Fonseca-Chávez and Tracy Brown will carry out research projects this summer at UNM through the center’s...

Trailblazing findings of daguerreotype properties revealed by The Metropolitan Museum of Art and UNM

By Steve Carr & Micol Spinazzi June 10, 2019

The Metropolitan Museum of Art (The Met) and The University of New Mexico today announced the groundbreaking findings of a two-year study of the plasmonic properties of daguerreotypes. Using atomic force microscopy and scanning electron microscopy,...

UNM scientists discover new antiviral roles for olfactory neurons in fish

June 24, 2019

Notorious psychoactive chemical THC more important for therapeutic effects in cannabis than previously known

February 25, 2019

Researchers at The University of New Mexico recently solved a major gap in the scientific literature by using mobile software technology to measure the real-time effects of actual cannabis-based products used by millions of people every day. Contrary to...

UNM researchers partner with Sandia Peak to collect data

By Kim Delker June 19, 2019

Researchers at the University of New Mexico School of Engineering are partnering with a popular state attraction to collect data. On June 12, they installed two wireless sensors on top of Sandia Peak in collaboration with Sandia Peak Tramway. Fernando...

UNM Young Alumni announces new board members

June 17, 2019

The University of New Mexico Young Alumni (UNMYA) has announced its 2019-2020 advisory board. The UNMYA board consists of 16 dedicated volunteers who lead committees, events and programs for both young alumni and soon-to-be graduates of UNM. Members of...

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UNM in the News

Headlines for June 26, 2019

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Faculty Experts

UNM faculty expert on foreign relations – Emile Nakhleh

Dr. Emile Nakhleh is a research professor and coordinator of National Security Programs at UNM. Nakhleh is a retired Senior Intelligence Service Officer, a National Intelligence Council Associate and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Since ...

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