Research

Four students at The University of New Mexico have been selected as Undergraduate Research, Arts and Design Network (URAD) ambassadors. The exceptional undergraduate researchers represent a variety of majors, backgrounds, research interests, and levels...

A new study led by interdisciplinary team researchers at the University of South Florida and The University of New Mexico, suggests humans were in Mallorca, Spain, an island in the western Mediterranean, at least 5,600 years ago. This date is at least...

Victor Acosta, an associate professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at The University of New Mexico, was named a 2024 Experimental Physics Investigator by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation and will receive a five-year $1.25 million...

Declining flows that have left the Rio Grande a tenuous brown ribbon through Albuquerque this summer are a reminder both of the impact of climate change, but also of our reliance on increasingly fragile water management infrastructure, according to a...

Quantum researchers at The University of New Mexico and New Mexico State University received a $1 million grant from the National Science Foundation to research the development of a photonic quantum computer that can operate at room temperature in a...

As a young man, Gabriel López worked for the U.S. Forest Service making new hiking and riding trails in and around the Pecos Wilderness. The trail crew would work and camp for weeks at a time maintaining and blazing new trails in the beautiful and remote...

Faculty from the University of New Mexico Department of Economics and the Department of Community and Regional Planning presented six different research projects focused on issues impacting New Mexico during the third-annual New Mexico Economic Research...

A group of University of New Mexico School of Engineering researchers is leading a new National Science Foundation effort to establish a center that is focused on diversity, equity and inclusion in the field of engineering. Donna Riley,...

Six undergraduates at The University of New Mexico have been chosen to receive the Undergraduate Research Scholarship for Fall 2024. The scholarship, presented by the Undergraduate Research, Arts and Design Network (URAD) is intended to support students...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded $8 million to NM EPSCoR to lead the "Research Infrastructure Optimization for New Mexico" (RIO-NM) project, a transformative initiative connecting New Mexico's significant research resources with its...