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The UNM Just Transition to Green Energy Grand Challenge team hosted Mijin Cha, assistant professor of Environmental Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz, recently for a public event in their Fueling a Fair and Just Energy Future Speaker...

The University of New Mexico Grand Challenges program announces the addition of six new dynamic teams. The newly formed cohort of innovative teams has been competitively selected to embark on the exciting journey of the Grand Challenges Level 1 program...

From Shiraz, Iran to Albuquerque to the moon is the trajectory of Hamideh Shojaeian, a Grand Challenges graduate fellow working with the Sustainable Space Research team. Shojaeian recently placed first in the University of New Mexico’s Graduate Poster...

Members of the Child Health Grand Challenge team have just received a $17,000 grant from the Brindle Foundation to conduct a pilot study of a program that will help foster and kinship care parents enhance their children’s cognitive and...

A team of University of New Mexico researchers received a three-year, $1.02 million grant from the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation to increase family participation in statewide early childhood home visiting programs.   New Mexico ranks...

UNM ‘s Just Transition Grand Challenge recently hosted Dr. Noah Kaufman, co-chair of the Resilient Energy Economies Initiative for a lecture. The Resilient Energy Economies Initiative, funds a series of research projects to support fossil fuel-dependent...

The Grand Challenges Climate Science Communication Fellowship is looking for undergraduate students with creativity and a passion for climate science research and communicating that passion and research to the world. The program is currently seeking 10...

The Grand Challenges program hosts two events, Grand Challenges Day and Space Day, during Research and Discovery Week, Nov. 8-15. Both events will be held in the Student Union Building, Ballroom C. Grand Challenges are problems of global, national, and...

Two UNM Grand Challenges teams will receive congressionally directed funds this year to complete research projects. Due in part to the efforts of Senators Martin Heinrich and Ben Ray Luján, the Sustainable Space Research team and the Child Health team...

The University of New Mexico’s Just Transition to Green Energy Grand Challenge team hosted Wade Buchanan, director of Colorado’s Office of Just Transition, for a public presentation at UNM and a dinner with representatives from several New Mexico state...