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After more than two decades as a faculty member at UNM, Sang M. Han is taking on a new role as chair of the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering. Since 2000, he has been a faculty member in the department, joining after a brief stint in the...

A team of scientists at The University of New Mexico is experimenting and learning about reforestation and the challenges presented by several environmental factors in the semi-arid southwestern United States where planted conifer seedling survival is...

Christine Gleicher is the first in her family to go to college. Raised in the South Valley of Albuquerque, Gleicher started her college work at CNM before transitioning to The University of New Mexico in 2020. In March 2022, she was named a Goldwater...

The 2022 UNM Gives United Way campaign begins Saturday, Oct. 1. As our community and country struggle with the continuing challenges of COVID-19, poverty, and crime, your support and compassion has never been more critical.  Every contribution counts and...

In a new collaboration, the New Mexico Start-Up Factory, UNM Health Sciences Center, and the UNM Anderson School of Management have been awarded a $3.25M grant from National Institutes of Health I-RED program to develop an educational product to promote...

Growing up, Lydia Tapia was curious about computers, but didn’t have much interest in what would eventually become her area of expertise: computer science. An Albuquerque native, the now-professor and incoming chair of the Department of Computer Science...

Two New Mexico professors have been selected for this year's NM EPSCoR Mentor Award—Dr. Manel Martínez-Ramón and Dr. Jun Zheng. Both were nominated by mentees and demonstrated characteristics of exceptional mentors, including strong professional and...

Chemistry students at The University of New Mexico are about to be one step closer to becoming fully-fledged chemists. That is thanks to a new Partnership for Research and Education in Chemistry (PREC) between UNM and the National Science Foundation...

The New Mexico Higher Education Department announced recently that it has awarded $110.5 million in faculty endowment funds to 13 colleges and universities across New Mexico, including $28.5 million to The University of New Mexico, to recruit and retain...

The University of New Mexico is inviting the community to a series of events commemorating Hispanic Heritage Month.  Since 1968, Hispanic Heritage Month has been celebrated in the U.S. to recognize and honor past and current Hispanics, Latinxs and their...