Research

The fourth annual NASA Swarmathon was hosted recently by The University of Mexico, covering Smith Plaza with swarms of robots that look like the desert ants that live around Albuquerque. But these ants were busy gathering cubes and bringing them back to...

The New Mexico Evaluation Lab, part of the UNM Economics Department, is seeking applicants for the 2019-2020 academic year.  The Evaluation Lab serves the dual purpose of training students in applied research and building program evaluation capacity in...

New research from a University of New Mexico graduate student looks at the tenuous relationship between preserving one of New Mexico’s most scenic waterways, while also providing continuous access to alternative energy sources. Suzanne Stradling, a...

The American West stretches from the sandy shores of the Pacific to the peaks of the Rockies, its diverse landscapes of deserts, foothills, beaches, mesas, grasslands, and mountains boasting of sunshine in the summer and snowpack in the winter. Water is...

Jin Zhang, an assistant professor in The University of New Mexico's Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, was recently awarded a $600,000 National Science Foundation CAREER grant to pursue new research on the elastic anisotropy of mantle minerals...

There’s no doubt that climate change is affecting ecosystems as well as the lifestyles of plants and animals around the globe. As temperatures rise, so do the complexity of the issues. Scientists, both in the United States and around the world, are...

A team of students, under the leadership of Andrea Polli, a professor at The  University of New Mexico's College of Fine Arts and associate professor of Computer Science at the UNM School of Engineering, has been working on a project called BioShield, a...

It took two years and a lot of trial and error but two researchers at The University of New Mexico Center for High Tech Materials (CHTM) have built "from scratch" a Stimulated Emission Depletion (STED) microscope, capable of imaging objects less than...

University of New Mexico graduate student Monika “Mo” Hobbs has been conducting research along the Chama River and El Vado Dam in northern New Mexico to attempt to learn how the flow of water affects invertebrates and their environment. Last year, Hobbs...

A UNM School of Architecture and Planning (SA&P) student’s assessment of work environments and public spaces led him to be listed among an elite group of 2019 CRIT Scholars. The award is given annually by the prestigious American Institute of...