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After a highly competitive process, University of New Mexico President Garnett S. Stokes has announced the three newest multi-disciplinary teams to join the Grand Challenges program as Level 2 teams, Child Health, Just Transition to Green Energy, and...

University of New Mexico expands mental health resources through partnership with TimelyCare   The University of New Mexico has partnered with TimelyCare, higher education’s most trusted virtual health and well-being provider, to offer students free...

There’s more that meets the eye when it comes to most things in life. In one specific area of research, however, the impulse to dive deeper and look beyond the surface had long been avoided.    That’s something UNM Sociology Professor and director and...

One University of New Mexico student is being recognized as the blueprint for the future of health and physical education. Junior Physical Education student Aliyah Gonzalez has been named a Major of the Year by the Society of Health and Physical...

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is recognizing one University of New Mexico student, and is paying to have even more people recognize her.  Tia Donaldson. a Ph.D. candidate in Psychology, has been awarded an NIH Travel Fellowship to attend the...

UNM’s Exercise Science program will keep working out, and onward.  The Commission on Accreditation of Allied Health Education Programs (CAAHEP) has awarded initial accreditation to the College of Education & Human Sciences’s (COEHS) Exercise Science...

It’s not all that often scientists, within the field of biology, discover a new cellular process, but Vojo Deretic, Ph.D., can speak from experience and he will as he shares the breakthrough and central importance of autophagy with colleagues,...

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is recognizing two University of New Mexico professors for their contributions to helping end addiction in the U.S. The NIH’s Helping to End Addiction Long-term Initiative (HEAL) has provided the Center on...

The sky is literally the limit for the Department of Health, Exercise & Sports Science researchers huddled up in the space next to Carlisle Gym.  You may miss the bright turquoise door when walking by, but inside, lies one of the most unique pieces of...

Cory Henn was an Iraq war veteran with a career at the New Mexico Corrections Department when he decided to pursue a degree in computer programming. After about a year and a half there he took a biology elective and found his passion, switching to The University of New Mexico to study Biology full time...