Faculty News

UNM School of Law Professor Cliff Villa has been asked by the President Joe Biden Administration to serve as a political appointee to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). As a senior advisor to the EPA Office of Land and Emergency Management,...

The university experience can be challenging to incoming students, particularly those in historically marginalized groups. The University of New Mexico is one of six schools that has been working for the past three years with the Coalition of Urban...

Liping Yang, assistant professor of Geographic Information Science (GIScience) in the Department of Geography and Environmental Studies at The University of New Mexico, was chosen to participate in the 2022 cohort of the TRELIS project, Training and...

In recognition of her outstanding research in Mammalogy over a period of at least 10 years, professor of Biology at The University of New Mexico Felisa Smith has received the 2022 C. Hart Merriam Award from the American Society of Mammalogists. Smith,...

Martin Peter Ferdinand Jurkat was born July 23, 1935, in Berlin, Germany, and passed away June 27, 2022, at the age of 86. Fittingly, he passed on the birthday of his wife, Mayme Porter Jurkat, to whom he was devoted for over 60 years. Jurkat was not...

The University of New Mexico has announced the promotion and honor of seven faculty to the rank of distinguished professor.  The rank of distinguished professor is awarded to faculty who have demonstrated outstanding achievements, and are nationally and...

University of New Mexico Distinguished Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology Hua Guo and his research team have logged an impressive 7,257 compute years on UNM Center for Advanced Research Computing (CARC) systems in the past four years. In other...

An international team of scientists has developed an accurate record of preindustrial sea level utilizing precisely dated phreatic overgrowths on speleothems that provide a detailed history of Late Holocene sea-level change in Mallorca, Spain, an island...

Several researchers from The University of New Mexico School of Engineering have been selected for funding from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) for various nuclear-related projects as part of $61 million awarded to 74 nuclear energy projects across...

After 27 years of distinguished and energetic stewardship of the Journal of Anthropological Research, Lawrence Guy Straus, the Emeritus Leslie Spier Distinguished Professor at The University of New Mexico, is stepping down as...