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Church Rock, N.M. has been home to the Diné, Navajo people, long before uranium mines appeared during the Cold War and is the site of one of the worst nuclear accidents in recorded U.S. history. On-going and slow-paced uranium mine waste cleanup efforts...

A project to develop new ultrafast laser transmitter technology at The University of New Mexico is expected to have a revolutionary impact on the physics of semiconductor lasers, with potential applications that could result in ten times the speed of current fiber optic networks.

Learn about the depth of research work being done at UNM during the Spring 2017 Shared Knowledge Conference (SKC). The conference, organized by Graduate Studies, will be held on April 6 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. in SUB Ballroom C. It provides an opportunity...

The University of New Mexico’s Ronald E. McNair Scholars Program and the Research Opportunity Program (ROP) are now accepting applications for the fall 2017 program. The McNair program and ROP prepare first generation, economically disadvantaged, and/or...

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...

The University of New Mexico was one of three cleared defense contractors selected for the 2015 Defense Security Service Award for Excellence in Counterintelligence. In a letter to President Robert Frank, the acting director of the agency James Kren ...

One of education’s biggest challenges is keeping up with technology to ensure that students are familiar with the latest technological advances and enabling them to be successful during their academic careers and beyond. This is especially true in the...

Shaggy, heavy-shouldered bison have grazed the wide open spaces of the American Southwest for thousands of years. They made a tempting target for the hunters who walked the empty landscape between 9,000 and 13,000 years ago. The bison were attracted to a...

The federal REAL ID Act bans federal agencies from acceptng IDs that do not measure up to the ID standards promulgated by the federal government. The federal government has delayed implementation of the REAL ID Act for years. The Department of Homeland...

Faculty members in the School of Engineering are the most satisfied with their work and their pay. That’s according to a survey of faculty members in fall 2013. The results of the survey have been released after a careful analysis of results by the...