Research

Two years ago a team of scientists visited Costa Rica’s subduction zone, where the ocean floor sinks beneath the continent and volcanoes tower above the surface, to find out if microbes can affect the cycle of carbon moving form Earth’s surface into the...

UNM’s Department of History Associate Professor Kimberly Gauderman was recently chosen as one of twelve inaugural recipients for the Mellon/ACLS Scholars and Society Fellowship from the American Council of Learn Societies.

For decades, Scott Collins has studied the impacts of natural disturbances and environmental change on grasslands in North America and South Africa to learn how rainfall variability, temperature changes and shrub encroachment affect these globally...

Researchers from The University of New Mexico’s Department of Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering’s transportation program are offering their expertise to the Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta to help ease traffic congestion...

In honor of the Grand Canyon National Park’s 2019 Centennial celebration, Earth Day 2019 and the 150th anniversary of John Wesley Powell’s 1869 pioneering Colorado River expedition, hundreds of scientists will be gathering at the Grand Canyon for the...

STC.UNM hosts its 16th annual Innovation Awards Dinner on Tuesday, April 23, from 5-7:30 p.m. at The University of New Mexico Student Union Building (SUB) Ballrooms B & C. The event will honor 58 faculty, staff and students who have received issued U.S....

Dr. Angela Wandinger-Ness has been chosen to receive the 2019 STC.UNM Innovation Fellow Award in recognition of her achievements as a leading innovator at The University of New Mexico. Wandinger-Ness is a professor in the Department of Pathology, the...

An alumna from The University of New Mexico is part of an international team of scientists that was able to produce the first-ever image of a supermassive black hole revealed earlier this week.  Raquel Fraga-Encinas, who is currently a Ph.D. student at...

The University of New Mexico’s Chemistry Department presents the 2019 Milton Kahn Endowed Lecture Series featuring Princeton University Professor Gregory D. Scholes on Friday, April 19 at 4 p.m. in the Science Math and Learning Center. Scholes’ lecture...

University Libraries recently announced the 2019 recipients of the Jim and Mary Lois Hulsman Undergraduate Library Research Awards. The six students will receive cash prizes for their outstanding efforts and copies of their work will be featured in UNM’s...