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In the August installment of Our Land, environmental correspondent Laura Paskus revisits the Gold King Mine spill and the destructive impact of the toxic orange plume that went flowing down the Animas and San Juan rivers five years ago. The waste that...

The Center for Southwest Research & Special Collections (CSWR) is introducing a new method of delivering its semester lecture series, People & Places. The virtual lecture series will be delivered through Zoom and will feature researchers and experts in...

At a July online staff meeting, Dave Simpson was awarded the 2019 FM Outstanding Manager award. Simpson received nominations for the award from both current and past FM staff, each commending his positive attitude and responsiveness to the needs of...

LATEST UPDATE: Oct. 13 at 11:35 a.m. The University of New Mexico is taking every precaution to help combat the spread of COVID-19, while countless Lobos work hard to responsibly “Bring Back the Pack.” UNM is beginning the fall term with hybrid...

UNM Rainforest Innovations (formerly STC.UNM), The University of New Mexico’s technology-transfer and economic-development organization announced recently that it has received a $300,000 CARE Act Recovery Assistance grant from the U.S. Department of...

Researchers from The University of New Mexico and a German team have written a collaborative paper about their joint project that was published this week. The article is Laser cooling of ytterbium-doped silica glass and appears in Communications...

The U.S. Department of Education announced The University of New Mexico's Student Support Services (SSS) TRIO program is one of 15 programs at colleges across the state to receive grant funding to help provide academic and other support to low-income,...

A new scholarship program has been developed to encourage first time students to begin their college journey at The University of New Mexico Los Alamos branch campus. The UNM-LA Start Here Scholarship is open to incoming first-time students to help...

A virtual welcome is not the typical greeting University officials normally plan for when welcoming incoming freshmen to The University of New Mexico, but that’s what it’ll be for students entering UNM in the fall of 2020 in the midst of a pandemic. New...

Nathan Jackson, an assistant professor of mechanical engineering at UNM, is the sole principal investigator for a project called “Development of Multifunctional Flexible Piezoelectric Materials for MEMS.” The three-year project began July 31. The...