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The University of New Mexico is ranking high amongst the world’s top universities according to the latest Center for World University Rankings (CWUR)—the largest academic ranking of global universities. In the CWUR’s 2019-2020 rankings, UNM ranked No....

For two decades, The University of New Mexico’s Formula Society of Automotive Engineers team has been designing, building and racing a Formula-style car for competition in an international contest. Students spend an intense year working on the machine,...

The University of New Mexico has received a $5 million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to continue the groundbreaking research that the Center for Water and the Environment has been leading since 2014. "CREST Center for Water and the...

A team of researchers from The University of New Mexico and its Center for High Technology Materials (CHTM) recently published a new paper in the journal Science Advances detailing their work in developing a quantum sensor for determining the chemical...

As the world struggles to battle the effects of climate change, not everyone benefits equally from the remedies. In a recent paper titled Weaponizing vulnerability to climate change, Benjamin Warner, an assistant professor of geography and environmental...

A dog in the grocery store; a cat in the cabin of an airplane; a bird in a coffee shop – companion creatures labelled as Emotional Support Animals (ESAs) are showing up more and more in places previously understood to be animal-free. It’s part of a...

University of New Mexico Provost & Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs James Holloway has announced the appointment of Dan D. García as vice president for Enrollment Management. García was selected after a four-month search from a diverse pool...

Our natural world is changing. The warming climate continues to fuel large natural disasters, establishing a new normal for citizens and governments around the world. Preparedness for this new normal is imperative for saving lives, and that means risk...

There’s a reason, many of them in fact, New Mexico is called The Land of Enchantment – from sun-drenched vistas to clear blue skies, from brilliant desert landscapes to picturesque mountains, from culture and cuisine to the diversity of its population as...

From the perspective of Central and South America, the peopling of the New World was a complex process lasting thousands of years and involving multiple waves of Pleistocene and early Holocene period immigrants entering into the Neotropics.  Paleoindian...