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The University of New Mexico's Center for Regional Studies recently selected Aimee Villarreal to participate in its Scholar-in-Residence Program as a short-term Visiting Research Scholar for the Summer 2021 term. Villarreal received her Ph.D. in...

Two students from The University of New Mexico are taking their studies abroad after receiving Fulbright Research Awards for the 2021-2022 academic year. Emily Hayes-Rich received the Fulbright Research Award for her Archaeology project in Morocco; and...

A new cryptocurrency company, 420Coin, has built a business model that allows investors to directly contribute to medical cannabis research. Cryptocurrencies are gaining rapid popularity because of their relative security, confidentiality, ease of asset...

As the visual evidence of climate change continues to shine a glaring light on a huge problem around the globe, scientists studying at several National Science Foundation (NSF) Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) sites are tackling the issue in part by...

An international group of collaborators including scientists from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory and The University of New Mexico have discovered a new, temperate sub-Neptune sized exoplanet with a 24-day orbital period orbiting a nearby M dwarf star....

To better understand the future of Earth’s changing ecosystems, a team from The University of New Mexico and colleagues from around the United States are part of a network of scientists that have been generating careful, reliable science for 40...

Researchers at The University of New Mexico examined the effects of consuming cannabis on nausea symptoms from five minutes to one-hour post-cannabis consumption and showed that using Cannabis results in an average symptom improvement of nearly 4 points...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) recently awarded The University of New Mexico a three-year, $500,000 grant to develop software that utilizes Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) to capture and process data from astronomical telescopes. GPUs render the...

A new study conducted by researchers from The University of New Mexico has found that wildfires — which have been increasing in frequency, severity and extent around the globe — are one of the largest drivers of aquatic impairment in the western United...

University of New Mexico Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Ph.D. candidate Guillermo Terrén-Serrano and Professor Manel Martínez-Ramón, in association with New Mexico New Mexico Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (NM...