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Shaggy, heavy-shouldered bison have grazed the wide open spaces of the American Southwest for thousands of years. They made a tempting target for the hunters who walked the empty landscape between 9,000 and 13,000 years ago. The bison were attracted to a...

The University of New Mexico School of Law has jumped 11 spots to the ranking of 60th nationwide in US News & World Report’s 2017 Best Law Schools. US News takes into account assessments by peer law schools, ratings by lawyers and judges as well as ...

There is more opportunity to experience the arts in Albuquerque thanks to the successful partnership of UNM’s College of Fine Arts (CFA) and the City of Albuquerque. Out of a mutual interest in boosting the cultural community downtown, the CFA Downtown...

Millions around the world offered sympathy, prayers, and even money after hearing about the April 2015 earthquake in Nepal that killed more than 8,000 people and devastated thousands of homes and businesses. But some were compelled to do even more. Two...

It is considered by many to be one of the biggest scientific discoveries of the past century. For the first time an international group of researchers, including a University of New Mexico alumnus, have detected the existence of gravitational waves, ripples in the fabric of spacetime, confirming a portion of Albert Einstein’s 1915 general theory of relativity.

Four startups at the University of New Mexico, including three at the UNM’s Center for High Technology Materials (CHTM), were among six startup companies benefiting from $300,000 in first round funding to help develop and commercialize several innovative...

University of New Mexico Leslie Spier Distinguished Professor of Anthropology Lawrence Guy Straus found his life’s work as a young boy allowed into the study of his long-deceased French grandfather where he alone could look in the cabinet drawers, at the...

Sandia National Laboratories engineer and UNM alumnus Tian Ma, whose research helps deter nuclear proliferation, is the 2016 Most Promising Asian American Engineer of the Year (AAEOY). He will be honored in a ceremony March 12 in New Brunswick, New...

University of New Mexico Vice President for Research Gabriel P. López has been chosen to receive the 2016 STC.UNM Innovation Fellow Award in recognition of his achievements as one of the UNM’s leading innovators.  This special award is presented each...

Inside an aged, unassuming laboratory in The University of New Mexico’s Maxwell Museum of Anthropology, a group of scientists look to the dead for answers. UNM’s Laboratory of Human Osteology is one of the largest in the country, according to Curator...