The New Mexico Space Grant Consortium recently awarded University of New Mexico graduate student Andrew Gentry with its Graduate Research Fellowship award for his work towards his Ph.D. developing radiation-hard silicon particle detectors.
Andrew...
The second year to be fully in person, students from all over the country are at The University of New Mexico for 10 weeks as part of the National Science Foundation’s Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) program in the Physics and Astronomy...
Three University of New Mexico professors are winners of the Crossing Latinidades Collaborative, Cross Institutional, and Comparative Research Working Groups and Latino Humanities Studies Grant Competition, sponsored by the Mellon Foundation.
The...
Investigators at The University of New Mexico (UNM) analyzed the psychological functioning of healthy college students with varying levels of tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) in their urine. Compared to nonusers, young adults with recent exposure to cannabis...
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...