University of New Mexico Ph.D. student David Camak, professor and curator of fishes at the Museum of Southwestern Biology Thomas Turner, and professor Megan Osborne recently published a paper about their research on analyzing genomic sequences of fish,...
The American Society of Mammalogists announced University of New Mexico Professor Felisa A. Smith as president-elect at its 100th annual meeting last week. The Society, established in 1919, is the oldest and largest mammal society in the world. She is...
The University of New Mexico’s College of Arts and Sciences recently announced its new Regents’ Professors for the Annual Years 2022-2024.
Regents’ Professor is a special title bestowed on selected full professors who, in the judgment of the dean, and...
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...
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...
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...
The proposal submitted by the UNM CHILI HOUSE Team won first place in the NASA MINDS Challenge, beating out dozens of other teams across the country. The UNM team of interdisciplinary researchers based its submission on teaching robots to take care of...
A University of New Mexico Biology professor and second year Ph.D. student are part of a team of scientists have examined the immune system of an unusual group of mammals, which includes a small South American opossum, to find solutions that evolution...
Life on earth is so diverse, in large part because individual species are restricted to particular areas. If populations were to expand unfettered across continents, communities everywhere would contain the same species. But they don’t. Why communities...