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For professors at a research university, proposal writing is a vital part of a tenure-track position. It can be extremely rewarding — setting an academic career on a trajectory of success. Yet there is also the realization that many proposals — despite...

Six faculty members in The University of New Mexico School of Engineering (SoE) have received National Science Foundation CAREER Awards in what is believed to be a single-year record for the school.

Lobos are invited to attend a webinar with the National Science Foundation (NSF) SBIR/STTR Program Director Elizabeth Mirowski on April 23 from 12-1 p.m. Registration is required.

You can design a self-driving car that follows traffic laws to a T, but if it isn’t trained to account for how other people drive in the area, it may do more harm than good.

The University of New Mexico led Energized Watershed coalition has been named one of 29 semifinalists in the second National Science Foundation (NSF) Regional Innovation Engines competition.

Two students from The University of New Mexico School of Engineering were named recipients of competitive National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowships. Mia Baca, a senior graduating with a degree in Chemical Engineering, and Abel Molinar, a...

To plan for the future, it’s sometimes necessary to look to the past. To improve natural history collection and analysis in the future, a team of researchers is looking at collections of plants from as far back as 1812. A team from The University of New...

Quantum researchers at The University of New Mexico and New Mexico State University received a $1 million grant from the National Science Foundation to research the development of a photonic quantum computer that can operate at room temperature in a...

As a young man, Gabriel López worked for the U.S. Forest Service making new hiking and riding trails in and around the Pecos Wilderness. The trail crew would work and camp for weeks at a time maintaining and blazing new trails in the beautiful and remote...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) today announced it will invest nearly $16 million in three research projects led or supported by The University of New Mexico. The grants are part of a $77.8 million NSF investment in projects that will build climate...