Schools and Colleges

Acting dean of Graduate Studies Jesse Alemán announced that Rebecca Bixby is the new director of the Water Resources Program at The University of New Mexico. The Water Resources Program is an interdisciplinary master's level professional degree program...

Eight Lobo researchers from disciplines spanning across The University of New Mexico have been selected as recipients of the inaugural OVPR Ovation Award for Research and Scholarship. The new Ovation awards recognize full-time faculty for recent...

A program at The University of New Mexico Department of Emergency Medicine allows students to participate in hands-on clinical research while working with staff and patients in the UNMH Emergency Department. The multi-semester course, Research in Acute...

A substantial grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) will boost inclusive excellence efforts at The University of New Mexico and support the hiring of nine diverse faculty in biomedical research in the College of Arts and Sciences. The $15.6...

Among the many programs for student researchers at The University of New Mexico, the only school in the state with the prestigious R1 designation from the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education, is the Undergraduate Research Training...

Are elephants important? How about rhinoceros? Or lions? What happens if Earth loses its last remaining large animals? New research by Professor of Biology Felisa Smith at the University of New Mexico shows the profound impacts of losing large-bodied...

This summer, New Mexico’s science educators were given a unique opportunity to strengthen STEM learning experiences in their own high school classrooms. In its second year at UNM, the Research Opportunities for Science Educators (ROSE) program, in...

This week on New Mexico in Focus, host Gene Grant and the Line Opinion Panel and talk through new polling data showing Democrats with big leads in several state races.  The panel also discusses the rollout of a new tool meant to reduce overdose deaths –...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded researchers at the University of New Mexico (UNM) and the University of Delaware (UD) an EPSCoR (Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research) Track 2 grant for $4 million to advance quantum...

It was in the winter of 1984 when a young physicist named Vasudev “Nitant” Kenkre wandered onto the campus at The University of New Mexico. Since then, Kenkre, who has been described as a physicist, humanist, humorist, magician, philosopher, scholar,...