University of New Mexico student Dana Lee was just announced as a 2021 Udall Scholar – a distinct honor she shares with only a few others around the country. Chenoa Scippio and Dora Bean, also UNM students, were selected as honorable mentions for the...
When Damián Wilson, an associate professor in The University of New Mexico Department of Spanish and Portuguese, first saw Spanish-language highways signs at the start of the COVID pandemic shutdown, he was happy to see the state reaching out to its many...
The UNM Department of Chemistry & Chemical Biology hosts a departmental colloquium featuring Professor Roald Hoffman in a virtual presentation titled Simulation vs. understanding: A tension, and not just in our profession, on Friday, May 7 at 12...
UNM student Marisa C de Baca will be graduating this spring after spending time in Mexico, working within another culture, improving her Spanish and learning the art of jewelry making.
She will be graduating with a degree from the UNM Communication and...
Two of the most destructive forces of nature – earthquakes and tsunamis – might be more of a threat than current estimates according to new research conducted by scientists at The University of New Mexico and the Nanyang Technological University titled...
The Cultural Properties Review Committee (CPRC) voted unanimously to grant a 2021 Heritage Publication Award to Professor Moises Gonzales, Professor Emeritus Enrique Lamadrid and the UNM Press for Nación Genízara.
The CPRC is a professional...
The proposal submitted by the UNM CHILI HOUSE Team won first place in the NASA MINDS Challenge, beating out dozens of other teams across the country. The UNM team of interdisciplinary researchers based its submission on teaching robots to take care of...
It was back in 1610 when Galileo Galilei made the first telescopic observation of Mars and ever since, the fascination with the red planet for scientific research has grown astronomically. Over the course of the next century, astronomers have discovered...
Public Archaeology student Emily Hayes-Rich was standing at the base of a mountain in Santa Fe preparing for a hike recently when she found out she had been selected for a Fulbright Award to support her master's research Old Answers to New Questions:...
Jane Lancaster, Distinguished Professor Emerita of Anthropology at The University of New Mexico, has been elected as a member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. She joins other eminent anthropologists selected for the honor, including the late...