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The University of New Mexico’s new Physics & Astronomy and Interdisciplinary Science building (PAÍS) was designed to improve the way student and faculty conduct research, and serve as a hub for cross-discipline collaboration on campus. The project began...

The reservoir was demolished, the rubble was cleared and preliminary foundation work began weeks ago in preparation for a day that was more than two decades in the making at The University of New Mexico – the official groundbreaking of a new facility...

When programs, colleges, or departments at The University of New Mexico are in need of a new or renovated facility, the staff at Planning, Design, and Construction (PDC) are here to do the “heavy lifting” to launch and carry forward these projects.

Voters across New Mexico continued to show their support for higher education, libraries and the UNM Hospital with the approval of several bonds and a levy on Election Day. General Obligation Bond C passed with 63 percent of voters in favor of providing...

For scientists developing life-saving medicines, knowing how cells interact and communicate with one another is an important part of the puzzle. The problem is, being able to see those interactions through a microscope hasn’t always been possible. But...

Near Geneva, Switzerland, an experimental facility, 17-miles in diameter, shoots protons at almost the speed of light to see what happens when they crash into one another. The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is located at CERN, the European Organization for...

Whether it’s the new 137,000-square-foot Physics & Astronomy and Interdisciplinary Science facility in Albuquerque or the Career Technical Center in Taos, University of New Mexico campuses across the state are asking New Mexicans to vote on higher education to make a big impact on thousands of students.

Quantum information science is going to change the world. Being able to manipulate and control individual atoms and other microscopic systems to do jobs in communications, sensing and computation will have an impact on nearly every aspect of our daily ...

It’s a simple idea that many say will revolutionize the way research is done at The University of New Mexico: Build a facility to house classrooms, offices and laboratory space for scientists from across campus, not just from a single department. The...

Deep inside the basement of Northrop Hall, in The University of New Mexico’s Department of Earth and Planetary Science, sits a high-tech center attracting scientists to UNM from all across the state. The instruments housed there are helping researchers answer questions and gain knowledge about structures invisible to the naked eye.