Geography

Liping Yang, assistant professor of Geographic Information Science (GIScience) in the Department of Geography and Environmental Studies at The University of New Mexico, was chosen to participate in the 2022 cohort of the TRELIS project, Training and...

A new internship program launched this summer at UNM sponsored by National Science Foundation (NSF) EPSCoR Track 2 program, TickBase project is introducing undergraduate college students to the field of Geographic Information Science (GIS) and how it can...

A team from The University of New Mexico is among the scientists and artists who will participate in an exhibition at ¡Explora! that launches with events for the whole family. The exhibition, Shared.Futures, kicks off with Meet a Scientist/Artist...

Twelve faculty members at The University of New Mexico have been selected for the 2022 Women in STEM awards. Award recipients will look at patterns of cancer disparities in New Mexico, consider an interdisciplinary lens for algorithmic justice, examine...

The Department of Geography & Environmental Studies (GES) and the Department of Biology (BIO) at UNM are forming two teams to participate in the 2022 City Nature Challenge.  The City Nature Challenge is an annual global collaborative effort which finds...

The Center for Community Geography at The University of New Mexico is hosting a workshop later this month, a great opportunity for people outside the University to learn about new initiatives in community geography, and for students and faculty to hear...

The Center for Regional Studies (CRS) welcomes Asa B. Stone as its Spring 2022 Tribal/Community College Research Scholar. Stone is a faculty member of the School of Communication, Humanities, and Social Sciences with Central New Mexico Community College...

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...

The UNM School of Law recently led a group of faculty and students on a visit to the Laguna Pueblo, some 40 miles west of Albuquerque, to learn about the history of uranium mining and the disproportionate impacts of uranium contamination upon indigenous...

New research paints a picture of small New Mexico water systems grappling with bureaucracy, regulations, lack of money, aging systems, and aging administrators as they struggle to keep clean water flowing in their communities’ faucets. Benjamin Warner,...