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James Dixon, director of the University of New Mexico’s Maxwell Museum of Anthropology, has been appointed to the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Advisory Committee on Geosciences.

Anil K. Prinja, professor and chair of the Department of Nuclear Engineering at the University of New Mexico, has been selected to receive the American Nuclear Society’s Gerald C. Pomraning Award for 2015.

Edl Schamiloglu, Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of New Mexico, has been recognized with the 2015 IEEE Nuclear and Plasma Society’s Pulsed Power Science and Technology Committee’s Peter Haas Award in...

Michael Dougher, vice president for Research, announced the appointment of Professor Plamen Atanassov as director of UNM’s Center for Micro Engineered Materials (CMEM). The appointment was effective Jan. 1, 2015.

Clues left behind in a cave in central America have allowed an international, multidisciplinary team of researchers, including several at the University of New Mexico, to produce a new paleoclimate rainfall record that illustrates the contribution of ...

Students at the University of New Mexico will soon be able to access the kind of supercomputing power that researchers at Los Alamos National Laboratory once used for the most complex calculations on the planet.

University of California Riverside Professor of Anthropology Wendy Ashmore will speak on “What were Maya landscapes really like?” on Thursday, Feb. 12 at 7:30 p.m. in the University of New Mexico Anthropology Lecture Hall (Room 163.)

The University of New Mexico Human-Centric Security Initiative presents, “Projecting the Integrity and Confidentiality of Security Functions Through Provable Code Obfuscation,” on Friday, Jan. 23, from 3-5 p.m. in Centennial Engineering Center, room 1044, on the UNM campus.

Daniel Feezell, an assistant professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of New Mexico, has received a $500,000 National Science Foundation (NSF) Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award.

Extreme climate events such as an El Niño or La Niña weather patterns can wreak havoc on global economies, health systems, and plant and animal communities. In tropical Costa Rica, where rainfall is usually abundant, researchers from the University of...