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Contrary to conventional wisdom, cities where there are higher percentages of bicyclists are actually safer for all road users than cities where fewer citizens are biking, according to a study by a University of New Mexico researcher. The study,...

Imagine a future of cyber-transactions with unbreakable encryption. Thermometers that never need calibration. Near-absolute measurements of time. Medications customized at the molecular level. These advances are imaginable because of new support for...

UNM Residence Life and Student Housing hosts its annual Operation Lobo Move-In Aug. 13 to 17 and needs volunteers to help welcome over 2,000 residents to campus.  Anyone interested can click on this link to sign-up. Volunteers can give directions,...

A UNM Regents’ Professor will be spending a year at Stanford, furthering her research on lost memories of refugees and the politics of commemoration. Eleni Bastéa, UNM Regents’ Professor of Architecture, won a prestigious External Faculty Fellowship at...

There are thousands upon thousands of viruses in our various environments affecting our everyday life in a variety of ways. Many of those viruses infect humans by entering and exploiting the nasal route. Scientists at The University of New Mexico are...

The University of New Mexico School of Engineering is again partnering with Sandia National Laboratories’ Nonlinear Mechanics and Dynamics (NOMAD) Summer Research Institute. The summer program, which brings together graduate students and researchers...

The University of New Mexico-Los Alamos (UNM-LA) announced recently the continuation of the Community Internship Collaboration (CIC) program in the Fall 2019 semester. UNM-LA is seeking local business partners to expand the range of internships available to...

A University of New Mexico associate professor is trading the adobe pueblo architecture and high desert beauty of UNM for the brick Romanesque Revival style and green grounds of Cornell University. Anna Skripka, an associate professor in the Department...

The University of New Mexico’s Solar Splash team finished in fourth place overall in the national Solar Splash contest in Springfield, Ohio, in addition to winning other awards. Solar Splash was held June 11-15, with 17 solar-powered boat teams from...

Critically-acclaimed poet and former UNM student and faculty member Joy Harjo is the new United States Poet Laureate – the first Native American to hold the position.  “It’s not just me carrying this title, it has to do with my family, my people, this...