Schools and Colleges

Despite the fact that women tend to outlive men in almost all societies, they experience more sickness along the way. This so-called ‘gender-health’ paradox has long puzzled researchers. Biological differences between the sexes – females’ higher body fat...

Voters in New Mexico once again gave higher education in the State of New Mexico a stamp of approval with the passage of General Obligation (GO) Bond C. The $155 million bond that will provide funding for more than 60 projects at colleges and...

The University of New Mexico was ranked No. 256 in the recently released U.S. News & World Report’s 2021 Best Global Universities rankings. The rankings, now in its seventh year, evaluate nearly 1,500 research universities across 86 countries on academic...

One can tell a lot from the composition of the gasses coming from active volcanoes about what is happening deep beneath. It is even possible to predict when an active volcano will erupt causing widespread damage, yet gathering this critical data can be...

When you turn on your kitchen faucet, do you know where your water comes from? Kerry Howe does, and he can tell you where it was before it got there and where it goes after disappearing down your drain. He is the director of the UNM Center for Water and...

A group of researchers from The University of New Mexico Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, led by Distinguished Professor Hua Guo, have teamed up with colleagues from Texas A&M University to understand more about the photochemistry of Earth’s...

A new collaborative research project led by The University of New Mexico seeks to answer some of the compelling questions surrounding a range of materials, including those for quantum and energy applications. The three-year project, titled...

Academic infrastructure has never been more important as illustrated since early-March when the COVID-19 pandemic hit New Mexico and sent students packing and heading home to finish the spring semester. The ability to provide remote education with a...

The November 2020 General Election will be crucial for many reasons, but especially for academic libraries across the state of New Mexico. General Obligation (GO) Bond B, if passed, will provide publicly funded New Mexico libraries with a total of $9.5...

Many people believe that Ancestral Pueblo diets were almost solely dominated by run-of-the-mill foods like maize and rabbits. But archaeologists are turning that stereotype around. In early archaeological sites in the Middle Rio Grande basin of central...