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For Professor David Gutzler, and like-minded colleagues and individuals, the evidence is as clear as New Mexico’s blue skies – climate change is here, and it is past time to start thinking about doing something to mitigate the issue.  Gutzler, a...

Picture this, you’re hungry, you have a family to feed, and your taste buds can only be satiated by the familiar flavor of large mammal meat. But, what if those large animals were difficult to find, would you settle for something smaller, less tasty—more...

The University of New Mexico’s Center for Quantum Information and Control (CQuIC) recently named Professor Ivan Deutsch as the Center’s new director. Deutsch was named to the position when former Director and Professor Carlton Caves retired. CQuIC is a...

The New Mexico Alliance for Minority Participation has received a five-year, $4 million grant renewal from the National Science Foundation for 2018-2023. New Mexico State University is the lead institution for the statewide program that was created in...

With a goal of addressing problems and creating meaningful change within our communities, The University of New Mexico today launched its Grand Challenges Initiative creating opportunities that require researchers to work together across disciplinary...

The University of New Mexico presents the Grand Challenges Initiative launch Wednesday, Nov. 14 from 9 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. in SUB Ballroom C. Grand Challenges are problems of global, national and regional significance that require researchers to work...

The first high quality ancient DNA data from Central and South America—49 individuals some as old as 11,000 years—has revealed a major and previously unknown exchanges between populations. Unprecedented details about the ancestry of the people of...

Visualize the following: The Earth’s climate swings between cold glacial and warm interglacial periods; the last glacial interval was about 20,000 years ago; sea level was about 126 meters (413 feet) below modern sea level at that time; and the Holocene,...

Community engagement takes on many forms in higher education. It is typically defined as a foundational role of a public research university to utilize its knowledge and resources in a beneficial way to demonstrate collaboration between higher education...

A new paper recently released in Geology by researchers Jacob Mulder, Karl Karlstrom, and other Australian colleagues provides a new dataset that may resolve the more than three decades-long debate about which continents were adjacent to southwestern USA...