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The University of New Mexico’s Nancy López was recently elected as the vice president of Sociologists for Women in Society, serving a two-year term from 2019 through 2021. The Sociologists for Women in Society (SWS) is an international organization of...

In conjunction with the national Geography Awareness Week, Nov. 12-17 and GIS Day, Nov. 14, The University of New Mexico’s Earth Data Analysis Center (EDAC), Student Association of Geography and Environmental Studies (SAGES), Department of Geography and...

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...

Voters in New Mexico decisively backed General Obligation Bonds B and D – affirming their support of higher education and libraries.  Bond B allocates $4 million each for higher education libraries, public libraries and public-school libraries – every...

The subject of geography typically brings to mind things like the terrain of the earth or the composition of mountains, not… beer. Merging topographical exploration with the study of ales and brews, students in The World of Beer class at The University...

With Election Day right around the corner, campaigns are doing last minute pushes for votes and fundraising – but what effect will that money have on the election outcome?  Join UNM University Libraries for a discussion about the influence of money on...

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...

The Data Bank at The University of New Mexico's Bureau of Business and Economic Research (UNMBBER) hosts its 20th Annual Data Users Conference on Thursday, Nov. 15 at the CNM Workforce Training Center. The Annual Data Users Conference is New Mexico’s...