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Eight faculty members at The University of New Mexico have been selected for the 2020 Women in STEM awards. Their work includes research on the impact of global warming on alpine stream biology, the creation of a better way to identify missing and...

A researcher from the University of New Mexico is part of a collaborative that is studying one of the most important socio-environmental changes in human history: the dispersal of the domestic horse into the Americas in the 16th and 17th centuries....

Jonathan Dombrosky, a Ph.D candidate and Associate Professor Emily Lena Jones, both from the Department of Anthropology at The University of New Mexico, recently received a National Science Foundation grant for $30,298 to research the impact of a...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) recently awarded The University of New Mexico-Valencia Campus a grant of $1 million to provide STEM scholarships for students. The Scholarships for Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (S-STEM) grant...

An interdisciplinary team of University of New Mexico faculty recently secured a five-year, $3.3 million grant from the National Science Foundation through the NSF Advance program for institutional transformation. The project, to be called Advance at...

A group from The University of New Mexico has received a grant from the National Science Foundation for a project that will develop a way to produce solar cells using nanotechnology, which could translate into more cost-effective solar panels for...

Ayșe Muñiz, a senior in biochemistry from Alamogordo, N.M., will soon be leaving the sunny state of New Mexico she’s always called home for the northern frontiers of Michigan.  

Victoria Bowler and Milena Carvalho both arrived last fall at The University of New Mexico excited to begin graduate work in the Department of Anthropology. Bowler had been a U.S. Park Service ranger at sites throughout the southwest and was ready to do...

Scientists at the University of New Mexico conducted research to effectively study carbon emissions through fault systems in the East African Rift (EAR) in an effort to understand carbon emissions from the Earth’s interior and how it affects the...

Two faculty members from the University of New Mexico School of Engineering will lead research activities for a new National Science Foundation Grant. Assistant Professor Ricardo Gonzalez-Pinzon and Associate Professor Andrew Schuler, both in the UNM ...