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For the third year in a row, The University of New Mexico will have a team competing in the national Solar Splash solar boat competition June 5-9 in Springfield, Ohio. Cameron Pouncey UNM’s team, made up of students from the departments of Mechanical...

Imagine leaving your home to go on a walk around the block, a familiar path you’ve walked many times. After a few steps into your walk, you look around and begin to feel like you don’t know where you are - nothing looks familiar. For aging adults,...

Ten scientists at the University of New Mexico were recently selected for the 2018 Women in STEM awards. Their work on eight separate projects includes research on smart grass that could generate energy, the effects of head injuries in professional...

Patrick Schaefer, executive director of the Hunt Institute for Global Competitiveness at the University of Texas at El Paso, has been selected for the 2018 Zhi-Xing China Eisenhower Fellowship (EF) Program. Schaefer is one of nine individuals selected...

The University of New Mexico School of Engineering will be a partner for the 2018 Sandia National Laboratories’ Nonlinear Mechanics and Dynamics (NOMAD) Summer Research Institute. The summer program, which brings together graduate students and...

To many in New Mexico, Memorial Day is the unofficial beginning of summer and all of the festivities that entails. The upcoming long weekend is loaded with backyard barbecues, camping trips and picnics. The New Mexico Poison and Drug Information Center...

Netflix has just released season 2 of 13 Reasons Why, the controversial show that made headlines last year – and some psychiatrists are very worried about the impact it will have on New Mexico teens. The show, about a teenager girl who commits suicide...

The University of New Mexico’s Department of Civil Engineering now has a new name: the Department of Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering. The name change was approved by the UNM Faculty Senate in late April. Mahmoud Taha, department chair...

When Rob Burford first got involved in Staff Council, it was because he saw a need for strong, fair leadership for campus employees. Now, five years later, the UNM Clery Act Compliance Officer is in the prime position to provide that, as he takes over as...

This week on New Mexico in Focus, correspondent Megan Kamerick interviews Santa Fe author Caroline Fraser, whose book, “Prairie Fires: The American Dreams Of Laura Ingalls Wilder,” won this year’s Pulitzer Prize for biography. “Prairie Fires” puts...