Research

New Mexico has been getting hotter and drier with each passing year. This winter, the state is experiencing record-breaking warm temperatures, which could significantly affect this spring's wildfire season. 

The University of New Mexico Grand Challenges has issued a Request for Proposals (RFP) for Level 2 of the program and will host two informational sessions this month for interested researchers.

The first cohort of UNM faculty from departments across campus are poised to resubmit research funding proposals after completing the Grant Revision for Outstanding Wins to Level-up (GROWL) pilot program.

In 2012, fossils from a rare Homo habilis skeleton were uncovered along the shores of Lake Turkana in northern Kenya. Scientists who made the find turned to University of New Mexico anthropologist Osbjorn Pearson, a professor and...

The University of New Mexico hosts its first Research Safety Week, a campuswide initiative designed to promote a strong, proactive culture of safety across UNM’s research community.

A long-standing idea in planetary science is that water-rich meteorites arriving late in Earth’s history could have delivered a major share of Earth’s water. A new study argues that the Moon’s surface record sets a hard limit on that possibility: even...

In 2023, professors Jennifer Tucker, community and regional planning, and Andreas Hernandez, sustainability studies, partnered with the community organization People’s Budget to design a participatory budgeting (PB) process for Albuquerque.

Over the past five years, Ellen Fisher has championed the phrase “Research is Education” in her role as vice president for research at The University of New Mexico.

UNM ARTSLab's Community Immersive Technology Hub is an innovative initiative aimed at making Virtual Reality technologies accessible to the broader community.

In this 2025 Research Year-in-Review, compiled annually by University Communication and Marketing (UCAM), scientists at The University of New Mexico addressed some of the most pressing issues facing New Mexico and the nation—from analyzing a massive...