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Every year, African lungfish survive to the dry seasons in Africa by creating a cocoon that allows them to live on land for months or even years, until water returns following long periods of heat and drought. This cocoon, in which the lungfish is...

The University of New Mexico College of Arts and Sciences recently announced its second annual Sobel Duncan Science for Health in Indigenous Populations (SHIP) Graduate Student Research Award. UNM sits on the traditional homelands of the Pueblo of...

On a recent 11-day raft trip through the Grand Canyon, geologists gathered evidence in hope that it would allow them to peer billions of years into the past. Using a relatively new technique, they were able to estimate the age of a mysterious section of...

Senior Lecturer of Arabic Heather Sweetser from the Foreign Languages and Literatures department at The University of New Mexico first learned Arabic in the military at the Defense Language Institute back in the late 1990s. She enlisted as a linguist and...

Associate Professor Anna Nogar of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at The University of New Mexico and A. Gabriel Meléndez, Distinguished Professor of American Studies at UNM, now retired, recently collaborated on a book of poetry translated from...

Associate Professor Georgiann Davis from the Department of Sociology at The University of New Mexico was an invited speaker at a recent virtual roundtable event with the White House to commemorate Intersex Awareness Day and discuss the treatment of...

The Lobo Language Acquisition Lab at The University of New Mexico will present Trisha Moquino of Keres Children's Learning Center (KCLC) describing her quest to create a school that would nurture children in the Keres-speaking community. Her...

An alumnus of The University of New Mexico has made a generous gift to the UNM Sustainability Studies program to establish an endowed fund in the name of his beloved late wife. The substantial gift will be used to support the Sustainability Studies...

A survey conducted by a team of researchers from The University of New Mexico finds that students who are food-insecure are more likely to fail or withdraw from classes or drop out of college entirely. The survey was done by lead author Heather...

Jessica Richardson, an associate professor of Speech and Hearing Sciences at The University of New Mexico, has been awarded a five-year, $2 million grant to optimize treatment and interventions for those who acquire the language disorder known as aphasia...