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The sound of shrill whistles and chattering students float out of the Monte Vista Elementary School gym, meaning only one thing: race day for the teams and their balloon-powered cars. Mechanical engineering students at The University of New Mexico are...

The National Alliance for Partnerships in Equity (NAPE) announced Chelsea Chee, Diversity and Inclusion Coordinator for New Mexico EPSCoR, as the 2018 recipient of their Rising Star Award. This prestigious award honors a person at the beginning of their...

Victor Polyak, senior research scientist in the Department of Earth and Planetary Science (E&PS) at The University of New Mexico, was recently awarded the Karst Water Institute outstanding scientist award. The award is given annually to an outstanding...

Aidan Grummer and Neil McFadden, two graduate students in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at The University of New Mexico, were among 60 students selected nationally to receive the prestigious Department of Energy Office of Science Graduate...

Researchers have demonstrated that mammal biodiversity loss, a major conservation concern today, is part of a long-term trend lasting at least 125,000 years. As archaic humans, Neanderthals and other hominin species migrated out of Africa, what followed...

The Department of Physics and Astronomy recently held the UNM Physics Day 2018, an undergraduate research conference and open house event organized by students for students that included local area high schools as well as a large contingent of students...

STC.UNM will recognize more than 60 inventors at its 15th annual Innovation Awards Dinner on Thursday, April 12 at The University of New Mexico Student Union Building (SUB) Ballrooms B & C. The event will honor faculty, staff and students who have...

Ten students from The University of New Mexico have been selected to receive National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowships for 2018. The UNM students, along with their graduate institution, are: Alexei Besser – Biology – UNM Sarah Blair...

Dr. Sang M. Han, Regents’ Professor in the Departments of Chemical & Biological Engineering and Electrical & Computer Engineering has been chosen to receive the 2018 STC.UNM Innovation Fellow Award in recognition of his achievements as a leading...

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...