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A substantial grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) will boost inclusive excellence efforts at The University of New Mexico and support the hiring of nine diverse faculty in biomedical research in the College of Arts and Sciences. The $15.6...

Are elephants important? How about rhinoceros? Or lions? What happens if Earth loses its last remaining large animals? New research by Professor of Biology Felisa Smith at the University of New Mexico shows the profound impacts of losing large-bodied...

The University of New Mexico’s Center for Teacher and Learning (CTL) has added two new assistant directors, including Jennifer R. Pollard and Magdalena Vázquez Dathe, as part of its Teaching Support Program. Each will work together to develop workshops...

The 2023 IEEE 24th International Conference on High-Performance Switching and Routing (IEEE HPSR 2023) will be held in Albuquerque June 5-7. Eirini Eleni Tsiropoulou, assistant professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at UNM, is...

It was in the winter of 1984 when a young physicist named Vasudev “Nitant” Kenkre wandered onto the campus at The University of New Mexico. Since then, Kenkre, who has been described as a physicist, humanist, humorist, magician, philosopher, scholar,...

UNM School of Law Professor Cliff Villa has been asked by the President Joe Biden Administration to serve as a political appointee to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). As a senior advisor to the EPA Office of Land and Emergency Management,...

The university experience can be challenging to incoming students, particularly those in historically marginalized groups. The University of New Mexico is one of six schools that has been working for the past three years with the Coalition of Urban...

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...

In recognition of her outstanding research in Mammalogy over a period of at least 10 years, professor of Biology at The University of New Mexico Felisa Smith has received the 2022 C. Hart Merriam Award from the American Society of Mammalogists. Smith,...

Martin Peter Ferdinand Jurkat was born July 23, 1935, in Berlin, Germany, and passed away June 27, 2022, at the age of 86. Fittingly, he passed on the birthday of his wife, Mayme Porter Jurkat, to whom he was devoted for over 60 years. Jurkat was not...