New research from a stalagmite collected from Hidden Cave in the Guadalupe Mountains in southeastern New Mexico shows the overall climatic backdrop for Pueblo cultural development in relation to climate before and after when it was drier.
The stalagmite...
One of UNM’s many historical buildings has been given new life again – and it will serve as an educational resource to future scientists throughout our community. Situated at the southern edge of main campus, the Natural History Science Center (NHSC) is...
Tiffany Florvil, associate professor of History at The University of New Mexico, is one of 20 recipients of the Berlin Prize for fall 2022 from the American Academy in Berlin, Germany. Florvil will work on a biography of the prominent Black German poet...
University of New Mexico alumna Amy Thompson has been awarded the UNM Tom L. Popejoy Dissertation Award for her dissertation Comparative Processes of Sociopolitical Development in the Foothills of the Southern Maya Mountains. Thompson, who received a Ph.D. in...
New research suggests an unseen ‘mirror world’ of particles that interacts with our world only via gravity that might be the key to solving a major puzzle in cosmology today – the Hubble constant problem.
The Hubble constant is the rate of expansion of...
Diana Macias was presented with a 2022 Howard McCarley Student Research Award for her research project entitled “Landscape Genomics and Local Adaptation of Piñon Pine (P. edulis) Across the Intermountain West.” Diana is pursuing a Ph.D. in Biology in the...
An international collaboration of more than 300 researchers from 80 institutes from around the world collaborated to produce the first image of a supermassive black hole at the center of our own Milky Way galaxy that provides overwhelming evidence the...
University of New Mexico Earth and Planetary Sciences students, led by Environmental Science professor Joseph Galewsky, recently left the classroom and went into the field to get firsthand experience studying greenhouse gas emissions...
Eric Lindsey, assistant professor in the Department of Earth & Planetary Sciences at The University of New Mexico, has concerns about the sustainability of aquifers around the world. Aquifers, nature’s underground water storage spaces, are vital to human...
Five students from the University of New Mexico have received the Fulbright Awards for the 2022-2023 academic year. Two Ph.D. students (Noelani Villa and Korey Tillman) will continue their dissertation research in the host countries. Three recent and new...
