Research

Daryl Domman, assistant professor at The University of New Mexico Center for Global Health, and Darrell Dinwiddie, assistant professor in the UNM Department of Pediatrics, have discovered a novel variant of the SARS-CoV-2 virus among COVID-19-positive...

The Center for Water and the Environment (CWE) is hosting a speaker series focusing on mountain hydrology. Mountain snowpack is a vital resource and is extremely vulnerable to climate change for downstream water users around the world. Due to the lack...

Paleo-ecologists from The University of New Mexico and at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln have demonstrated that the offspring of enormous carnivorous dinosaurs, such as Tyrannosaurus rex may have fundamentally re-shaped their communities by...

Nick Carroll, assistant professor in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering at The University of New Mexico, has been awarded a National Science Foundation CAREER Award for a project that could eventually lead to smart implantable medical...

Researchers at The University of New Mexico are tied to a new study published in the journal “Royal Society Open Science” that documents the earliest-known fossil evidence of any primate. Associate Professor Jason Moore, of UNM Honors College, and Wade...

During his stint as a visiting scholar at The University of New Mexico Center for Regional Studies, New Mexico State University associate professor of Spanish and University of New Mexico alum Spencer Herrera followed two paths. One path was a journey...

In recent decades, the impacts of wildfires have been felt in many places in the Southwestern United States, but those impacts — including erosion that can turn a heavy rainfall into a life-threatening flood — are felt especially in Native American...

A new report released by the UNM Bureau of Business and Economic Research (BBER) gives a positive outlook for proponents of community solar initiatives. Community solar projects are large-scale facilities that individuals can buy into. They are an...

A version of this story originally appeared in Brookings' How We Rise blog and was republished with permission from Brookings Institute. Gabriel Sanchez is a Professor of Political Science at The University of New Mexico, a Non-Resident Senior Fellow for...

The Ateneo de Manila University Press has recently published the book, Zanjeras of Ilocos: Cooperative Irrigation Societies of the Philippines written by The University of New Mexico Research Associate for the Center for Regional Studies José A. Rivera....