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Two professors from The University of New Mexico, including Hua Guo and Wirt Wills, were elected recently by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) to the newest class of AAAS Fellows. The 2021 class of AAAS Fellows includes 564...

Since 2010, Tom Jacobs, a former U.S. naval officer, has participated in online volunteer projects that allow anyone who is interested — “citizen scientists” — to look through NASA telescope data for signs of planets beyond our solar system. Now, Jacobs...

The L’Oréal USA for Women in Science fellowship program is offered to female scientists who have completed their Ph.D. and have begun postdoctoral research. Applications close Jan. 29, 2022. L’Oréal has valued science since it was founded by a scientist...

Darcy Barron, an assistant professor from Physics and Astronomy at The University of New Mexico, was recently awarded a three-year NSF grant of $393,000 to develop instrumentation and analysis tools to better monitor the cosmic microwave background...

The University of New Mexico’s Physics and Astronomy and Interdisciplinary Science building, affectionately known as PAÍS, was recently awarded Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED®) Gold status, the United States Green Building Council's...

A faculty member from The University of New Mexico is one of the researchers on a recently-funded National Science Foundation project that focuses on carbon capture and conversion in manufacturing. Shuya Wei, an assistant professor in the Department...

UNM Postdoctoral Fellow of Anthropology April Kamp-Whittaker has been awarded the prestigious NSF SPARC Grant and an American Philosophical Society Franklin Research Grant. Kamp-Whittaker is using the NSF SPARC Grant to develop a ArcGIS StoryMap...

Mousumi Roy, a Regents’ lecturer and associate professor in The University of New Mexico’s Physics and Astronomy Department, was recently awarded two National Science Foundation grants, including a Mid-Career Advancement grant for her work examining how...

When students return to campus for the Fall semester, a new art installation will greet them at the recently-opened Physics & Astronomy and Interdisciplinary Science (PAÍS) building. During the pandemic, PAÍS became home to a set of colorful paintings in...

To better understand the future of Earth’s changing ecosystems, a team from The University of New Mexico and colleagues from around the United States are part of a network of scientists that have been generating careful, reliable science for 40...