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A recent study co-authored by University of New Mexico School of Law Associate Professor Yael Zakai Cannon shows the relationship between “adverse childhood experiences,” or ACEs, and juvenile delinquency. The study also sheds light on the role that law...

When Yemane Asmerom came to The University of New Mexico more than 20 years ago, he had a dream to build a state-of-the-art laboratory that would conduct world class research second to none. With the help of many...

The UNM Biology Department hosts its 25th annual Research Day and Open House on Thursday, March 31 and Friday, April 1. The annual event is a showcase of student research celebrating discovery and education in the biological sciences. On Thursday, March...

For more than 30 years, Dr. Nina Wallerstein has been involved with Community Based Participatory Research (CBPR) including empowerment-based interventions in family, youth and women’s health issues. It’s a lifelong accomplishment she is proud to have...

A five-year randomized study to determine whether kindergarten through third grade students would benefit from an extra 25 days of school was completed with mixed results. The study concluded that students benefited, but only in specific conditions. The...

Shaggy, heavy-shouldered bison have grazed the wide open spaces of the American Southwest for thousands of years. They made a tempting target for the hunters who walked the empty landscape between 9,000 and 13,000 years ago. The bison were attracted to a...

Four startups at the University of New Mexico, including three at the UNM’s Center for High Technology Materials (CHTM), were among six startup companies benefiting from $300,000 in first round funding to help develop and commercialize several innovative...

University of New Mexico Leslie Spier Distinguished Professor of Anthropology Lawrence Guy Straus found his life’s work as a young boy allowed into the study of his long-deceased French grandfather where he alone could look in the cabinet drawers, at the...

University of New Mexico Vice President for Research Gabriel P. López has been chosen to receive the 2016 STC.UNM Innovation Fellow Award in recognition of his achievements as one of the UNM’s leading innovators.  This special award is presented each...

Inside an aged, unassuming laboratory in The University of New Mexico’s Maxwell Museum of Anthropology, a group of scientists look to the dead for answers. UNM’s Laboratory of Human Osteology is one of the largest in the country, according to Curator...