Faculty News

The University of New Mexico will host a public forum on “The National Academies Action Collaborative on Preventing Sexual Harassment in Higher Education,” on Wednesday, Nov. 2 from 3 to 4:30 p.m. in the SUB Ballroom C and on Zoom. The forum will...

A small shift in boundaries can have a drastic impact.  That’s why the tiniest bending of a line turned into a hard-fought battle for fairness in New Mexico’s redistricting process, a painstaking redrawing of state election districts following a new...

University of New Mexico Communication and Journalism Professor Mohammad Yousuf, is receiving one of the most prestigious awards in Journalism in this region, by the Southwest Education Council for Journalism and Mass Communication (SWECJMC).  He has...

University of New Mexico Physics and Astronomy Research Professor Andrew Landahl visited the U.S. Capitol to receive the 2021 Ernest Orlando Lawrence Award, one of the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) most prestigious honors for mid-career...

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 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...

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...

The University of New Mexico’s Center for Teacher and Learning (CTL) has added two new assistant directors, including Jennifer R. Pollard and Magdalena Vázquez Dathe, as part of its Teaching Support Program. Each will work together to develop workshops...

The 2023 IEEE 24th International Conference on High-Performance Switching and Routing (IEEE HPSR 2023) will be held in Albuquerque June 5-7. Eirini Eleni Tsiropoulou, assistant professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at UNM, is...

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,...