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United States Secretary of the Navy, Ray Mabus, will bring his vision of leadership to students and tour a cutting edge laboratory during a brief visit to the University of New Mexico campus on the afternoon of Tuesday, Jan. 19.  During his visit, he ...

The U.S. Census Bureau recently released its latest statistics from the American Community Survey, which cover the period from 2013-2014 for areas with a population of 65,000 or more.  The statistics show that the number of New Mexicans with health...

UNM’s Center for Water and the Environment recently hosted an awards ceremony recently for high school students. The students received awards from Brig. Gen. Mark Toy, commander of the South Pacific Division of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.

Three University of New Mexico students, Joseluis Ayala, Anthony Chavez and Tina Faris, are on their way to Washington, D.C. to participate in the U.S. State Department’s highly-selective internship program. Ayala and Chavez will be interning in the...

Research faculty members in the Center for Micro-Engineered Materials and Chemical and Biological Engineering Alexey Serov, Plamen Atanassov, Kateryna Artyushkova and Ivana Gonzales will spend the next two years working to develop materials for a...

What will it take to make electrical power generated by nuclear reactors a safe and normal part of the world’s energy future? That’s one of several questions researchers and engineers tried to answer in a series of three-day workshops scattered at universities across the country.

UNM School of Law Professor Alex Ritchie studies and seeks solutions to complex oil and gas legal issues, not only in the classroom, but also in his scholarship. His reasoned analysis on why New Mexico state law preempts a complete ban by a local...

UNM Student Services, under the Division of Student Affairs, was recently awarded a U.S. Department of Education HSI Title V Part A grant for $2.6 million. The five-year grant is awarded to higher education institutions to increase their capacity to ...

UNM Distinguished Professor of Chemical and Nuclear Engineering Abhaya Datye and his graduate students Eric Peterson and Andrew De La Riva are focused on finding a way to make catalytic converters on diesel engines as efficient as possible...

L. Wayne Brasure, a member of the Senior Executive Service of the U.S. Air Force, has been named director of the Air Force Office of Scientific Research in Arlington, Va.