College of Arts & Sciences
January 31, 2025
Museum collections are key to the university’s mission to provide education, research, public service and economic development to the state, nationally, and internationally.
A new paper entitled “Global natural history infrastructure requires...
January 28, 2025
The University of New Mexico’s Museum of Southwestern Biology, Natural Heritage New Mexico, and the New Mexico BioPark Society have announced the launch of a new website, the New Mexico Rare Arthropod Resource (NM-RARe).
This site, located at...
By Mary Beth King
January 23, 2025
Four undergraduates at The University of New Mexico have been chosen to receive the Undergraduate Research Scholarship for Spring 2025. The scholarship, presented by the Undergraduate Research, Arts and Design Network (URAD) is intended to support...
January 20, 2025
The University of New Mexico Sevilleta Long Term Ecological Research (SEV LTER) program has received renewed funding for six years for $7.65 million from the National Science Foundation, along with matching funds from the State of New Mexico Technology...
By Mary Beth King
January 15, 2025
Hummingbirds are extremely small but remarkably tough. Some species make annual migrations of over 9,000 km a year (about 5,590 miles). Their journeys are largely fueled by nectar, which is sipped from wildflowers and converted to fat. But climate...
By Mary Beth King
December 12, 2024
Lillian Walker remembers as a child when money was tight as the family bounced between low and middle income and having an injury meant waiting to see if she was hurt enough to be taken to a doctor. Healthcare bills meant struggling to pay for food and...
By Kim Delker
December 11, 2024
Jessie L. Williamson, a research associate at the Museum of Southwestern Biology at UNM, is the recipient of the 2024 Tom L. Popejoy Dissertation Prize, which will be awarded during UNM’s fall graduate commencement ceremony on Dec. 12.
Williamson is a...
By Mary Beth King
November 07, 2024
Mubarak Hussain Syed, an assistant professor of Biology at The University of New Mexico, along with a team of UNM students and collaborators at the University of Pennsylvania, is investigating how developmental and genetic factors affect sleep behavior....
By Mary Beth King
October 21, 2024
A new center at The University of New Mexico has received a $3.83 million award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH)/National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR) that will support the mission of improving climate resilience in New Mexico.
The...
October 14, 2024
Researchers at the University of New Mexico have identified the presence of bacteria in healthy brains from fish. Understanding this connection between bacteria and animal brains could have future implications for the study of Alzheimer’s disease.
UNM...
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