Biology

Dinosaurs dominated the landscape for more than 100 million years, but all that remains today are bones. This has made it difficult to solve a long-standing and contentious puzzle: were dinosaurs cold-blooded animals that lumbered along or swift warm-

Communicating the value and the importance behind science research is essential for a number of reasons as students learned this past semester in the course “Communicating Science: How to enthuse the public about science and engineering and your ...

The University of New Mexico Biology Undergraduate Society, or BUGS, hosts an educational outreach event titled Wolf Fest 2014 on Friday, April 11 on Smith Plaza in front of Zimmerman Library from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. The event’s goal is to raise awarenes

The UNM Sustainability Studies Program has announced a new partnership between the Agri-Cultura Network and La Montanita Co-op. Starting in May, the on-campus Co-op Grab & Go location, next to the UNM Bookstore on main campus, will be the weekly ...

The UNM Biology Department hosts its 23rd Annual Research Day and Open House this Thursday and Friday, April 3-4 from 4:30 to 6 p.m.  The keynote speaker is Daniel Simberloff, University of Tennessee-Knoxville, who will discuss “Biological Invasions: ...

It has long been known that birds and bats have small genomes, but the cause was uncertain. Now researchers at the University of New Mexico have shown that the genome shrinks over evolutionary time in species that spend lots of energy on flight. This ...

UNM will soon have much more computing power under its belt.  Enough to sequence the genomic data for thousands of people in New Mexico over the next several years.

The University of New Mexico announced recently that it has two Grand Challenges Explorations winners, an initiative funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.  Distinguished Professor Eric Loker, and Associate Professor Coenraad Adema, both from ...

Researchers at the University of New Mexico in the Department of Biology are studying the rate and fitness effects of spontaneous mutations, a central area of study in evolution and biology. The research, enabled through a three-year, $750,000 ...

Graduateprograms.com compiled their first ever Top Graduate Programs according to students, raking the best graduate programs in the country in a variety of fields based solely on ratings and reviews from current and recent graduate students. UNM is ...