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Yang Qin, an assistant professor in the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology at the University of New Mexico, has received a five-year, $525,000 National Science Foundation (NSF) Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award for research...

A new reservoir of hot, partially molten rock located beneath the Yellowstone supervolcano has been imaged for the first time giving scientists a new perspective of the volcanic plumbing system under the supervolcano.

C. Jeffrey Brinker, Distinguished and Regents’ Professor in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering in the UNM School of Engineering, and Cheryl Willman, professor in the Department of Pathology at the UNM School of Medicine, and director...

Faculty members in the School of Engineering are the most satisfied with their work and their pay. That’s according to a survey of faculty members in fall 2013. The results of the survey have been released after a careful analysis of results by the...

How do you excite high school students about the possibilities of computer programming? One way is to show the results. That’s why this group of students from Nex+Gen Academy in Albuquerque is in the basement of the University of New Mexico's Centennial...

Dr. Karl Karlstrom has spent a lifetime studying rocks. A professor of geology in University of New Mexico’s Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences (E&PS), Karlstrom has carved out an impressive academic career conducting research on rocks at one of...

High in the Atacama Desert, around 10,000 feet, anyone with a computer and Google Earth can look at the fields around Turi, Chile and see small...

The UNM Biology Department hosts its 24th Annual Research Day and Open House this Thursday and Friday, March 26-27. The annual event is a showcase of student research celebrating discovery and education in the biological sciences.

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...

Drones, or unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), have become increasingly popular over the last half dozen years or so among amateur aeronautical aficionados, engineers and generally anyone fascinated with relatively inexpensive flying machines. Drones can...