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Starting Sept. 1, and continuing throughout the football and basketball seasons, Game Day Fridays are the perfect opportunity for Lobos to showcase their team spirit in style. Every Friday, shop at the UNM Bookstores, both on-campus and online, and...

A new National Science Foundation-funded project is tackling a perplexing problem — that of the toxic heavy metals left behind after uranium mining in Native American communities in New Mexico — from a multifaced angle. Instead of offering a top-down,...

The University of New Mexico is set to host an inaugural New Mexico Postdoctoral Research Symposium on Friday, Sept. 22. The event is the perfect opportunity for UNM postdocs to present their research in front of the campus community. Postdocs will...

This year, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission approved a 40-year license for a private company, Holtec International, to build a facility between Hobbs and Carlsbad that would store nuclear waste from power plants the company is decommissioning in...

UNM's Grand Challenges and the Interdisciplinary Science Cooperative have teamed up to bring Grand Challenges Day and the Team Research Symposium together in one special event for the campus community. Faculty, staff, students, and alumni are invited to...

Tonmoy Chakraborty, Ph.D., assistant professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at University of New Mexico, has received a five-year, $1.82 million National Institutes of Health (NIH) Maximizing Investigators’ Research Award (R35) to further...

UNM Professor Emeritus Dr. Peder Jack Johnson is being remembered as an extraordinary human being. Johnson died at home on Aug. 11, 2023, at age 87, leaving the earth a better place than he found it, according to his friends and family.   Johnson was...

Jordan-Nicholas Salazar from UNM-Los Alamos is one of 213 Phi Theta Kappa members named a 2023 Coca-Cola Leaders of Promise Scholar and will receive a $1,000 scholarship.  UNM-Los Alamos extends its congratulations to Salazar and his fellow scholarship...

The University Libraries (UL) recently announced the grand unveiling of an exquisite mural that adorns the Centennial Science and Engineering Library (CSEL) hallway on lower level 2. The mural, designed and painted by recent UNM graduate Esther Elia, is...

The University of New Mexico is boldly striding into the future by embracing artificial intelligence (AI) and integrating it into higher education. Across campus, UNM organizations are tapping into the vast potential of AI to enrich the academic...