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Arash Mafi, interim director of The University of New Mexico Center for High Technology Materials, has been named a 2018 Optical Society Fellow. “UNM has a well-established and strong research and education tradition in optics and photonics, especially...

With warm, dry summers comes a deadly caveat for the western United States: wildfires. Scientists say the hot, dry climates found west of the Mississippi, along with decades of fire suppression efforts, are creating a devastating and destructive...

University of New Mexico graduate student Jacek Ksawery Osinski was one of 52 students across the nation selected by the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Office of Science for its 2017 Office of Science Graduate Student Research (SCGSR) Program. The...

When Robert Ward (B.S. Physics, ’00) first came to The University of New Mexico in the late-1990s, he had no idea he’d be part of one of the most important scientific discoveries of the past century. 20 years later, that’s exactly what happened and now,...

University of New Mexico researchers have been awarded a five-year $7 million federal grant that establishes a new center to develop more effective behavioral health interventions for the state’s under-resourced, racially, ethnically and geographically...

University Libraries is launching a scholarship to specifically recognize outstanding research efforts of undergraduate students from all disciplines. After receiving financial support from long-time library supporters Jim and Mary Lois Hulsman, library...

Throughout her academic career, Lina Cui has always been interested in the chemistry of disease in the human body. Now, as a University of New Mexico Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Cui is using her knowledge and...

The New Mexico Academy of Science (NMAS) and its partners, the New Mexico Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (NM EPSCoR), the New Mexico Alliance for Minority Participation (NM AMP) and the University of New Mexico Center for Water &...

A University of New Mexico undergraduate engineering student thinks algae could solve the problem of arsenic contamination in water. Chase Stearnes says he got the idea after hearing about researchers who were able to use algae to collect and harvest...

Pascal Biosciences Inc., a drug discovery and development company, announced recently that the company has executed an exclusive, worldwide license option agreement with STC.UNM, The University of New Mexico’s technology-transfer and economic-development...