News

University of New Mexico researchers are studying a newly discovered hormone that releases from muscle after exercise. Irisin, named for the Greek “messenger” goddess Iris, may prevent breast cancer and boost the effects of chemotherapy drugs used in...

UNM STEM-H (Science, Technology, Engineering, Math and Healthcare) Center for Outreach, Research and Education hosts the Southwest Region Junior Science and Humanities Symposium (JSHS) competition Friday-Saturday, Feb. 27-28.

Edl Schamiloglu, Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of New Mexico, has been recognized with the 2015 IEEE Nuclear and Plasma Society’s Pulsed Power Science and Technology Committee’s Peter Haas Award in...

Michael Dougher, vice president for Research, announced the appointment of Professor Plamen Atanassov as director of UNM’s Center for Micro Engineered Materials (CMEM). The appointment was effective Jan. 1, 2015.

A group of UNM-Gallup students who are members of the Gallup Land Partners, LLC (“GLP”) Entrepreneurship Program funded by Robert W. Roche were recently treated to a tour of City Hall by Mayor Jackie McKinney.

An experimental student news lab at the University of New Mexico has been granted $50,000 by the Ethics and Excellence in Journalism Foundation. The money allows the New Mexico News Port to continue growing its “innovation and collaboration” model in the...

The UNM Faculty Senate meets on Tuesday, Feb. 24 at 2:30 p.m. in the Scholes Hall Roberts room. The senate votes on a variety of academic program revisions, as well as a vote to designate the Chicana and Chicano Studies program as a...

STC.UNM, the University of New Mexico’s technology-transfer and economic-development office, hosts its spring breakfast seminar series on Wednesday, Feb. 25. The featured speaker, Chad Person, is a co-founder and chief design officer at Seed Worthy, a...

The New Mexico Senate has confirmed Barbara Damron as the secretary of the Higher Education Department. It was a breeze, starting this morning with a lovefest in the Senate Rules Committee.

 Santiago Vaquera-Vásquez is at the UNM Bookstore Tuesday, March 3 at 2 p.m. to sign copies of his book, One Day I’ll Tell You the Things I’ve Seen: Stories (University of New Mexico Press, 2015). This event is free and open to the public. The UNM...