Faculty News

A research project is underway at The University of New Mexico that investigates a potentially groundbreaking way to treat drug addiction using computational modeling to understand the role of the PICK1 protein in the brain of an individual suffering...

A solar energy company started by a professor at The University of New Mexico has received a $1.25 million award from the U.S. Department of Energy Solar Energy Technologies Office (SETO) to advance one of its technologies that could add significant life...

Melanie Moses, a professor of computer science and biology at The University of New Mexico, has been awarded National Science Foundation funding to understand how human lungs...

For more than two-and-a-half months, most staff at The University of New Mexico have been working remotely due to the COVID-19 pandemic that started sweeping the nation earlier this year. Since March 17, UNM has limited its operations and sent staff home...

Planning had been taking place for months, but like so many other events this spring, it was on the brink of cancellation due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Tariq Khraishi, a professor of mechanical engineering at The University of New Mexico, was tasked...

When Julie Bustamante and Charlie Steen began their careers at UNM, Richard Nixon was president, and the now iconic images of Woodstock were still fresh along with humankind’s crowning achievement of landing on the moon had the world invigorated. Each...

Dr. Anne Lee Madsen, age 74, died unexpectedly in the early morning of May 11, 2020. She was born May 4, 1946 in Provo, Utah to Kenneth and Barbara Madsen. She is survived by her sister, Kay Neumann and her daughter, Sarah Beth Nason.    Though raised...

Ruth Luckasson became a Lobo in 1981 – nearly 40 years later the University of New Mexico Distinguished Professor would be recognized among several others who are making strides for individuals who live with intellectual and developmental...

Melanie Moses, a professor of computer science at The University of New Mexico, has been selected as a council member of the Computing Community Consortium of the Computing Research Association. Melanie Moses, associate professor of Computer Science,...

University of New Mexico School of Law Professor Clifford Villa and UNM SOL Professor Emeritus Eileen Gauna are adding to growing influence of the School of Law’s Natural Resources and Environmental Law Program (NREL) with the release of the third...