Faculty News

The U.S Department of State and the Fulbrights Foreign Scholarship Board recently announced that University of New Mexico Professor Trenia Walker received a Fulbright Specialist Program award that will take her to Kosovo, a destination is she very...

Mousumi Roy, a Regents’ lecturer and associate professor in The University of New Mexico’s Physics and Astronomy Department, was recently awarded two National Science Foundation grants, including a Mid-Career Advancement grant for her work examining how...

University of New Mexico Professor Chris Lippitt was recently named the new associate dean for research in the College of Arts and Sciences (A&S). Prior to this appointment, which took effect Aug. 1, Lippitt was the founding faculty coordinator of the...

The following letter was written by a group of more than 40 fire and forest scientists led by The University of New Mexico’s Matt Hurteau, a professor in the Department of Biology. It addresses concerns with a recent decision over new directives aimed at...

Christopher Perfetti, assistant professor in The University of New Mexico Department of Nuclear Engineering, has received funding from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) for a project to explore the physics behind UNM’s nuclear reactor. The project,...

Two professors in The University of New Mexico School of Engineering have earned the title of distinguished professor. Fernando Garzon, professor of chemical engineering, and Kerry Howe, professor in the Department of Civil, Construction and...

The University of New Mexico’s College of Arts and Sciences recently announced the promotion of five faculty to the rank of Distinguished Professor. The rank of Distinguished Professor is the highest title that UNM bestows upon its faculty. It is...

The Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation (the Foundation) has awarded UNM Professor Reed Benson the Clyde O. Martz Teaching Award, making Benson the first recipient of the award at UNM.  “I am very honored to receive this award, and grateful for all...

Tucked into a corner of the Albuquerque Museum sculpture garden just off the historic Old Town Plaza is A Garden: The Living Room. The public art + agroecology project was created by Land Arts of the American West...

The University of New Mexico continues to watch the evolving public health recommendations and the growing body of scientific knowledge of SARS-CoV-2 to decrease the prevalence of COVID within its campus community while still delivering on its mission of...