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The instability of Stokes waves (steady propagating waves on the surface of an ideal fluid with infinite depth) represents a fundamental challenge in the realm of nonlinear science. A team of researchers recently identified the origin of breaking oceanic...

The University of New Mexico-Taos (UNM-Taos) K-12 Outreach Program Director Paralee King, who is coming off a successful summer of workshops designed for K-12 students, has more to celebrate. She recently learned that her application for the Encantado...

Popejoy Hall recently announced the second season of “Broadway for Teens,” an education and outreach program committed to excellence in the arts for New Mexico’s teens. This season, students from Title I public high schools from across New Mexico are...

The University Libraries’ Research Data Services (RDS) program offers an ongoing series of workshops aimed at boosting research capabilities at The University of New Mexico. These workshops introduce and provide hands-on experience with tools like R and...

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...