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Fourteen faculty members at the University of New Mexico have been selected for the 2024 Women in STEM Awards.  The 11 funded projects include a study of carbon storage in soils along the middle Rio Grande floodplain, an investigation into rural New...

University of New Mexico Department of Physics and Astronomy Graduate student Josef Sorenson was selected recently to receive the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science Graduate Student Research (SCGSR) award to pursue his Ph.D. next year at...

Although the congressional floor in Washington D.C. may appear tumultuous today, the up-and-coming future leaders and politicians are demonstrating a different perspective to get things done. This is exactly what transpired at the nation’s first-ever...

Researchers from The University of New Mexico Hand and Machine Lab in the Department of Computer Science recently traveled to Hawaii for the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing...

The Political Science Honors Program at The University of New Mexico gives undergraduate students a taste of graduate school, along with the opportunity to explore the research process and write a senior thesis about their research with the help of faculty mentors...

Babies born with weights less than 5 lbs 8 ounces (2,500 grams), can face a host of health challenges and an increased risk for chronic health problems like diabetes and heart disease later in life. Now, for the first time, researchers at The University...

An exhibit created by local eighth graders is now front and center inside one of the University of New Mexico's Biology buildings.  Two display cases inside Castetter Hall showcase the work of Lobo Science students, who have been creating the exhibit...

A new, timely book written by two UNM political science professors is diving into the critical issue of abortion politics.  Johns Hopkins University Press has just published, Regulating Abortion: The Politics of U.S. Abortion Policy, by Deborah R....

Two students in the School of Engineering are recipients of the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship (NSF GRFP). Ashley Apodaca-Sparks, a master’s student in the in the Gerald May Department of Civil, Construction and Environmental...

The newly released New Mexico Election Study (NMES) reveals a successful general election in 2022, meaning the election was run well with strong security to protect the system against fraud, while also having many opportunities to ensure voter...