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Field Camp is an immersive capstone course for geology majors in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, and as 2023 student Ben Thorp says, “it rocks!” During this three-week course, students...

Almost any grocery store is filled with products made from corn, also known as maize, in every aisle: fresh corn, canned corn, corn cereal, taco shells, tortilla chips, popcorn, corn sweeteners in hundreds of products, corn fillers in pet food, in soaps...

For decades, scientists have conducted research centered around the five major mass extinctions that have shaped the world we live in. The extinctions date back more than 450 million years with the Late Ordovician Mass Extinction to the deadliest...

In the run-up to the 2016 Olympics, much of the U.S. media coverage played up fears over the Zika virus, terror attacks, and the general safety of athletes and tourists in Rio de Janeiro. But it gave short shrift to the most urgent problems underlying...

Seventeen students from The University of New Mexico (UNM) recently returned from a summer study abroad program in Limerick, Ireland led by David Wright, director of Education Abroad. The trip was geared toward service-learning, a teaching strategy that...

The University of New Mexico's Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences and the Institute Of Meteoritics present a lecture by Timothy McCoy, "Meteorites: Their role in asking questions and framing answers in Solar System exploration," Wednesday, Nov. ...