Biology

Despite the availability of a cheap and effective vaccine, measles remains a leading cause of childhood mortality worldwide, killing more than 150,000 individuals in 2011. In a new study, researchers at the University of New Mexico have revealed ...

The University of New Mexico and the city of Albuquerque host the Joint Meeting of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists (JMIH) at the Albuquerque Convention Center this week through Monday, July 15. The conference attracts more than 1,000 scientists ...

UNM planners are starting the preparation process to construct an addition on the west side of the recently completed Science & Math Building with $5 million appropriated from the state ...

The University of New Mexico's Department of Biology hosts its 22nd annual Research Day on Friday, April 5 in Castetter Hall. Preceding the event, Thursday, April 4, the department hosts a lecture and presentation of student research celebrating ...

The University of New Mexico has received two grants in continued support of its PREP and IMSD Programs in the Department of Biology. The grants, totaling nearly $5 million over four years, were awarded through the National Institutes of Health (NIH).The ...

Five students from UNM's Initiative for Maximizing Student Development (IMSD) and two from UNM's Minority Access to Research Careers (MARC) program won 2012 SACNAS Undergraduate Student Poster Presentation Awards at the organization's SACNAS (Society for ...

The University of New Mexico and the Central New Mexico Community College signed three cooperative agreements in a ceremony in the Greenhouse at UNM's Castetter Hall in the Department of Biology Tuesday. The agreements, a Biology Transfer Degree ...

"BROWN2FEST," a scientific symposium honoring two extraordinary scholars, UNM Distinguished Professor of Biology James H. Brown and his wife, Biology Professor Astrid Kodric-Brown, will be held Saturday, June 9 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. in the new Centennial ...

An agreement signed recently between the University of New Mexico's Museum of Southwestern Biology (MSB), the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science (NMMNHS), and the State of New Mexico, Department of Cultural Affairs (DCA), has led to the ...

University Libraries is hosting the Walter E. Dean Environmental Information Management Institute in a series of one week courses from Monday, May 28 to Friday, June 15, 2012.