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Mars is in the news with the landing of the Perseverance rover and there is a renewed interest in the red planet. In the March issue of National Geographic, professor Maria Lane of The University of New Mexico Department of Geography & Environmental...

To improve the safeguards that protect sensitive financial data from cyber threats, Multi-factor Authentication (MFA), also known as two-factor authentication, has recently been added to the Bursar Account Suite (TouchNet) and Loboweb (Direct Deposit,...

The call is open for women faculty in The University of New Mexico’s STEM fields to apply for a variety of grants as part of the 2021 Women In STEM awards. Awards range from $3,000 to $15,000 and three types of grants will be awarded through the...

In just over 40 hours of class time, under the direction of UNM alumnus and Hollywood director/writer/producer Brian Levant, a group of students from The University of New Mexico Film & Digital Arts department has created a half-hour network-style comedy...

Researchers from The University of New Mexico’s Department of Nuclear Engineering have been selected to be part of a multi-institutional, five-year, $25 million grant awarded by the Department of Energy and the National Nuclear Security Administration...

Daryl Domman, assistant professor at The University of New Mexico Center for Global Health, and Darrell Dinwiddie, assistant professor in the UNM Department of Pediatrics, have discovered a novel variant of the SARS-CoV-2 virus among COVID-19-positive...

The Center for Water and the Environment (CWE) is hosting a speaker series focusing on mountain hydrology. Mountain snowpack is a vital resource and is extremely vulnerable to climate change for downstream water users around the world. Due to the lack...

Endless pivots in the 2020 curriculum and academic environment inspired a University of New Mexico group to rally – ensuring graduate students had the tools needed to search for jobs in an increasingly competitive market. The coronavirus pandemic has...

A recently published book highlights a symposium co-hosted by a research center at The University of New Mexico. Population Change and Public Policy is the proceedings of the Second Biennial Population and Public Policy Conference, held in February 2019...

Paleo-ecologists from The University of New Mexico and at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln have demonstrated that the offspring of enormous carnivorous dinosaurs, such as Tyrannosaurus rex may have fundamentally re-shaped their communities by...