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The University of New Mexico (UNM) invites the community to witness a remarkable celestial event as an annular eclipse will grace Albuquerque’s sky on Saturday, Oct. 14. The UNM Department of Physics & Astronomy, along with faculty, students, and staff,...

It’s a new twist to an old program that The University of New Mexico hopes will provide an overall safer campus atmosphere utilizing a community policing initiative. UNM’s latest campus safety prevention effort is called Campus Watch, and is modeled...

Statistical literacy tells “the story behind the statistics,” said Professor Milo Schield, faculty member and author of the course textbook at The University of New Mexico Department of Mathematics and Statistics. UNM was the first public university in...

Rainbow Ryders’s hot air balloons have graced the skies of Albuquerque for 40 years, but years before Scott Appelman (UNM ‘81) founded one of the largest hot air ballooning companies in the world, he was a teenage boy ditching class to help a balloon...

The Grand Canyon’s valleys and millions of years of rock layers spanning Earth’s history have earned it a designation as one of the Seven Natural Wonders of the World. But, according to a new UNLV and University of New Mexico study, its marvels extend to...

This month, the National Science Foundation — along with partner funding agencies from Australia, Canada and the United Kingdom — announced awards totaling $76.4 million for the inaugural Global Centers Competition, and a University of New Mexico...

A team of international scientists from the USA, France, Germany, and Ethiopia recently published cutting-edge climate research on how thunderstorms can “clump” together and how that influences the Earth’s climate. This led to the discovery that this...

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development awards one of its first HSI Center of Excellence grants to create the Arizona Research Center for Housing Equity and Sustainability (ARCHES).  The new center will address the interconnected issues...

Two University of New Mexico School of Engineering professors are part of one of the eight Microelectronics Commons innovation hubs recently announced by the Department of Defense as part of President Biden’s CHIPS and Science Act. "Creating Helpful...

Class is in session for Water 101 in the latest episode of It’s (Probably) Not Rocket Science. John Fleck, a professor of practice and expert on the governance and management of the Colorado River discusses what is happening with water in the West. Then,...