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Research students with The University of New Mexico’s Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering program are looking at ways to reduce material usage and heat on sidewalks. The concrete paths absorb heat, occasionally buckling because of the...

Behind the mid-century modern stone façade of a former automobile sales center on a corner of The University of New Mexico campus, the Center for Advanced Research Computing houses 21st century state-of-the-art computing facilities, along with the staff...

After 25 years at the University of Utah, The University of New Mexico's Center for Stable Isotopes has been given a unique opportunity to develop future leaders in science from across the country – and around the world. Started by Professors Jim...

UNM Postdoctoral Fellow of Anthropology April Kamp-Whittaker has been awarded the prestigious NSF SPARC Grant and an American Philosophical Society Franklin Research Grant. Kamp-Whittaker is using the NSF SPARC Grant to develop a ArcGIS StoryMap...

Quantum Technologies hold the promise to revolutionize future technologies in computing, communication, and sensing and deepening our understanding of the universe. They harness the unique features of quantum mechanical systems for devices such...

The Born–Oppenheimer (BO) approximation is the best known mathematical model in molecular quantum mechanics. Named after Max Born and J. Robert Oppenheimer, the approach was proposed during an early period of quantum mechanics back in the...

A small flickering at dusk near the trees, a pinprick of light rising from the ground – fireflies bring an air of magic and wonder to long summer evenings. The twinkling conversation between beetles is commonly associated with mating patterns; and new...

With a recent uptick in new COVID-19 cases and as vaccination rates stall in parts of the country, questions surrounding the level of protection offered by vaccines remain prominent. One researcher at The University of New Mexico is taking that question...

Exceptionally hot and dry weather this summer has fueled dozens of wildfires across the western U.S., spewing smoke across the country and threatening to register yet another record-breaking year. More than a century of fire exclusion has created dense...

Cosmology is the study of the universe—how and when it began, how it moves and how fast, and how its forces interact with each other. It is the study of the balance between what we can’t see and what we can. Dr. Francis-Yan Cyr-Racine, assistant...