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Tara Drake, an assistant professor in the Department of Physics & Astronomy at The University of New Mexico, has received a National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award. The award is NSF’s most prestigious award in recognition and support of...

A nearly $5 million project is underway at UNM-Taos to bring an ‘out of this world’ experience to northern New Mexico. The University says the largest public-use telescope in the southwest will soon be...

The University of New Mexico (UNM) has ranked No. 61 on the Top 100 U.S. Universities Granted Utility Patents in 2023, a list published by the National Academy of Inventors (NAI). Published annually, this ranking serves to highlight and celebrate U.S....

For more than 20 consecutive summers, Eliseo “Cheo” Torres and Mario Del Angel Guevara, University of New Mexico Chicana/o Studies professors, have hosted “Traditional Medicine without Borders: Curanderismo in the Southwest and Mexico.” This two-week...

The number of older New Mexicans will continue to increase in the coming decades while total population change will remain flat. Stability will be due in large part to international migration, which will offset declining births and increasing deaths...

Babies born with weights less than 5 lbs 8 ounces (2,500 grams), can face a host of health challenges and an increased risk for chronic health problems like diabetes and heart disease later in life. Now, for the first time, researchers at The University...

Would it be a shock to know that one of the most reputed research centers in the country is located right here at UNM? Would you be even more surprised if you found out that the same center has been making groundbreaking discoveries for 35 years, but...

A University of New Mexico research scientist and professor is being recognized nationally for his contributions to planetary geology by the Geological Society of America. Charles 'Chip' Shearer, a Senior Research Scientist for the Institute of...

The Maxwell Museum of Anthropology of the University of New Mexico has been approved by the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) for a Grants for Arts Projects award of $36,000. This grant will support ALL REZ: Kéyah, Hooghan, K'é, Iiná / Land, Home,...

A faculty member from the UNM School of Engineering is part of the first-ever group in the Faculty-Applied Clean Energy Sciences (FACES) program, funded by the Department of Energy. Tito Busani, an assistant professor in the Department of Electrical and...