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University Libraries is launching a scholarship to specifically recognize outstanding research efforts of undergraduate students from all disciplines. After receiving financial support from long-time library supporters Jim and Mary Lois Hulsman, library...

Throughout her academic career, Lina Cui has always been interested in the chemistry of disease in the human body. Now, as a University of New Mexico Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Cui is using her knowledge and...

The New Mexico Academy of Science (NMAS) and its partners, the New Mexico Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (NM EPSCoR), the New Mexico Alliance for Minority Participation (NM AMP) and the University of New Mexico Center for Water &...

A University of New Mexico undergraduate engineering student thinks algae could solve the problem of arsenic contamination in water. Chase Stearnes says he got the idea after hearing about researchers who were able to use algae to collect and harvest...

Pascal Biosciences Inc., a drug discovery and development company, announced recently that the company has executed an exclusive, worldwide license option agreement with STC.UNM, The University of New Mexico’s technology-transfer and economic-development...

The University of New Mexico is part of a new National Science Foundation-funded engineering research center that will develop new technologies to produce fuels from U.S. shale gas deposits that could inject $20 billion annually into the economy. UNM...

A researcher in The University of New Mexico School of Engineering has received $1.4 million from the National Science Foundation in two separate grants to study issues of water quality using holistic approaches that have never been attempted...

A University of New Mexico professor is looking at why engineering and scientific minds are choosing to take their careers overseas. Roli Varma, a professor at the UNM School of Public Administration, in collaboration with the University of Texas...

The United States is in the midst of a major drug epidemic. Stories continue to roll in daily about the lives claimed by prescription and non-prescription drug overdoses. The numbers are staggering. Opioids alone (including prescription pain killers and...

Faculty members in The University of New Mexico Department of Nuclear Engineering have received more than $2 million in separate grants from the Nuclear Energy University Program, a part of the Department of Energy, as well as a faculty development award...