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The animal collections housed at zoos and natural history museums — living specimens in the first case, preserved in the other — constitute an exhaustive trove of information about Earth’s biodiversity. Yet, zoos and museums rarely share data with each...

As an expert in body size evolution of animals, professor of Biology at The University of New Mexico Felisa Smith is often called on to lend her knowledge and opinion on the subject. She is co-editor of a book about animal size...

Mubarak Hussain Syed, an assistant professor of Biology at The University of New Mexico and head of the Syed Neural Diversity Lab, is hosting Building Diversity in Neuroscience, a workshop this week for local high school students as part of his Pueblo...

Eric Denkers, professor of Biology at The University of New Mexico and primary investigator of the Denkers Lab at UNM's Center for Evolutionary and Theoretical Immunology, has been elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology.  Professor...

A University of New Mexico student who is pursuing a double major in Physics and Astronomy, and Biology has now been accepted into the Santa Fe Institute (SFI) summer research program on complexity. “I was both surprised and proud to learn that the...

Two students from The University of New Mexico have been named to participate in the Ecological Society of America (ESA) Katherine S. McCarter Graduate Student Policy Award (GSPA) 2022 cohort. This award provides graduate students with the opportunity to...

On Jan. 14, over 75 investigators attended a multi-institution virtual workshop hosted by the University of New Mexico to develop a comprehensive research effort focused on drylands resilience. Support of drylands resilience on a regional scale is...

University of New Mexico Ph.D. student Kevin Willson, who is working with assistant professor Matthew Hurteau in the Department of Biology, was awarded a predoctoral fellowship from the USDA's National Institute of Food and Agriculture in December. It is...

The COVID-19 pandemic has prompted the search for animal models that demonstrate the symptoms observed in humans infected with SARS-CoV-2. New research from University...

University of New Mexico Ph.D. candidate Ethan Gyllenhaal has been engaged in a series of research projects that use genomic analyses to explain the complex evolutionary processes that take place within and between island bird populations...