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A big, belated congratulations to the New Mexico Lobos men's hoops team for a regular season championship, a decent showing in the MWC tournament (losing to eventual tourney winner SDSU) and a #3 seed in the men's NCAA Tournament! Let's go Lobos and beat ...

For the folks who are interested in the details. UNM researchers have succeeded in winning $37 million in competitive grants under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. Main campus awares are $16 million and HSC awards total $21 million to ...

The economic crisis could threaten the security of the tenure system, according to an article on Inside Higher Education today, "Layoffs Without ‘Financial Exigency.'" The article names two universities – Florida State and Clark Atlanta– that have ...

It could have been a PR nightmare, but the Albuquerque Bernalillo County Water Utility Authority prevented that from happening. The Water Utility Authority was planning to close part of University Blvd. southbound early this week for construction, but ...

Patrick Bridges, associate professor in the UNM Computer Sciences Department has completed an interesting experiment in collaboration with Peter Dinda, professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Northwestern University and his graduate ...

I've known Brad Ellingboe for several years. I've publicized the awards he's received as a composer. I've pushed to garner some recognition for CDs his choirs have produced. I've watched him transform into a fundraiser so his students can travel to ...

Anthropology Professor and Director of the Maxwell Museum, Dr. James Dixon, is conducting exciting research exploring glaciers in Alaska to discover ancient frozen artifacts. Some of his research was filmed last summer in Alaska and at the Maxwell for a ...

If past records regarding periods of warming and cooling climate are an accurate indication of weather patterns, then the southwestern United States is likely headed into a period of severe long-term drought say researchers at the University of New ...

New Mexico is a rising star of the film world, with recent Golden Globe and Oscar winners and, according to yesterday's State of the State address, more than 130 major movie and television productions in the past 8 years. Now, Albuquerque leaves Los ...

Researchers at the University of New Mexico have established a new low in temperature cooling through laser cooling of solids to cryogenic temperatures. Under an AFOSR, MURI grant, a team led by UNM Professor, Mansoor Sheik-Bahae, created the first-ever ...