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The University of New Mexico’s Solar Splash team was pleased with its performance in its first year competing in the national solar boat competition. Solar Splash is an international intercollegiate solar / electric boat regatta that takes place over...

The University of New Mexico signed a master collaboration agreement with Honeywell Federal Manufacturing & Technologies today, facilitating closer collaboration on research and development of new technology to meet national security needs.

The University of New Mexico is a member of a team that has signed a formal agreement to bid jointly to manage Albuquerque-based Sandia National Laboratories. The announcement was made today at a press conference at UNM. UNM is a member of the team led...

More than 30 people gathered last week to form a new student chapter of the Earthquake Engineering Research Institute - EERI. There has been substantial interest in earthquake resistant structures since a group of UNM students formed to create an...

The search for general trends in evolution of animal shape and size often comes up empty. Rather, evolution tends to be unpredictable, leading toward different forms in different places. Groundbreaking new work has revealed a predictable trend in...

University of New Mexico Vice President for Research Gabriel P. López has been chosen to receive the 2016 STC.UNM Innovation Fellow Award in recognition of his achievements as one of the UNM’s leading innovators.  This special award is presented each...

It started with a vision – a vision to build a world class research-focused laboratory to support stable isotope research while providing hands on graduate and undergraduate instruction that also encourages a cross-disciplinary exchange of ideas and...

Scientists at the University of New Mexico conducted research to effectively study carbon emissions through fault systems in the East African Rift (EAR) in an effort to understand carbon emissions from the Earth’s interior and how it affects the...

Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS) in the United States has long been estimated at no more than three children per 1,000. A new study published in the journal of Drug and Alcohol Dependence reports that the prevalence of fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS) is between...

Understanding the different ways organisms can adapt to environmental temperatures is central to understanding how they will respond to climate change. In a study released yesterday in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), scientists...