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This week on New Mexico in Focus, Our Land returns to mark the 10-year anniversary of the Las Conchas Fire, which burned 156,000 acres of the Jemez Mountains. Here in New Mexico, wildfire season is getting longer. Wildfires, bigger. And these trends will...

The University of New Mexico is participating in the national COVID-19 College Challenge, where they are working to ensure they can get as much of the community vaccinated as quickly as possible. New Mexico ranks among the top states in the nation in...

UNM-Los Alamos (UNM-LA), UNM School of Engineering and the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) recently celebrated the creation of a program in mechanical engineering to meet local workforce needs.  UNM-LA hosted an event Monday, June 7 to recognize...

Russell J. and Dorothy S. Bilinski's life objective was to be self-sufficient and intellectually challenged. They firmly believed that people should be Independent, ambitious, and, most importantly, accountable. Russell worked as a researcher,...

An international group of collaborators including scientists from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory and The University of New Mexico have discovered a new, temperate sub-Neptune sized exoplanet with a 24-day orbital period orbiting a nearby M dwarf star....

Those who worked alongside him and shared in his dedication and passion of law say there is no way to adequately express the immeasurable impact Dean Fred Hart had on the University of New Mexico and the greater community as a whole. “Fred was a leader...

Researchers at UNM and the Mind Research Network are seeking more participants for an ongoing study that will look at memory and attention issues associated with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in veteran and active-duty service members.   The...

Susannah Davis, a research assistant professor in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering at The University of New Mexico, has been selected as a 2021 National Academy of Education (NAEd)/Spencer Postdoctoral Fellow. The NAEd/Spencer...

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...

Thatcher Rogers, UNM Ph.D. student in Archaeology, will receive the Friends of Coronado Historic Site scholarship this spring, a local scholarship that funds research along the Middle Rio Grande. Thatcher also received an NSF (National Science...