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If this year’s Undergraduate Research Opportunity Conference (UROC) at The University of New Mexico is any indication, more first-year students are jumping into research. Mentors hope that through participating in research opportunities at UNM, first-year students will eventually find their lifelong research passions.

Throughout the year The University of New Mexico undergraduate students work closely with faculty mentors to conduct innovative and exciting research.  Each spring, they get a chance to show off their research to students, staff, and faculty during the...

The story of La Llorona is an ancient one imbedded in the folklore of Latin America and New Mexico. There are many variations on the theme but, basically, it’s a tragic tale of the ghost of a grieving woman roaming rivers, lakes, or acequias seeking her...

Some of the major benefits of being the state’s only Research 1 institution are the everyday opportunities students are afforded to work closely with faculty mentors on innovative research across a wide range of disciplines. Each year, undergraduate...

Students are being sought for the annual Team Research Concept Competition at the 2024 Undergraduate Research Opportunity Conference at The University of New Mexico on April 12. Student colleagues will develop research concepts to share during the...

The University of New Mexico is an R1 university, a term reserved for doctoral universities with very high levels of research activity, and the only university in the state with this prestigious designation. Coming into the research community can seem...

UNM’s recent Undergraduate Research Opportunity Conference featured two Anderson undergraduate finance students, giving them valuable research experience and refining independent learning, all while gaining practical finance experience. Nikolaos...

University of New Mexico undergraduate students work closely with faculty mentors to conduct innovative and exciting research.  Each spring, this research is celebrated at the annual Undergraduate Research Opportunity Conference (UROC). UROC is a...

Meg Honnold just wrapped up her first year at The University of New Mexico, but unlike most students on campus, it was also her first year in a classroom. Homeschooled from kindergarten through high school on a fundamentalist family commune in the Ozark...

When it comes to ways to present research to the public, typical methods include posters and talks that detail the scientific process and findings in a somewhat predictable way. But imagine communicating research through a painting, a poem or a...