Research
By Mary Beth King
June 14, 2020
Almost 140 years after his death, the man born Henry McCarty ̶ but better known as Billy the Kid ̶ continues to exert a sense of fascination and romance. Two books about the outlaw, who spent the last part of his life in New Mexico, will be...
By Sarah Carpenter
June 10, 2020
According to the United States Geological Survey, Earth is home to about 1,500 potentially active volcanoes, with new volcanoes forming about once a week. Volcanic eruptions can be highly unpredictable and pose a major threat to life and...
June 08, 2020
Fire has been a central component in California’s natural and human history for millennia. Native Americans’ use of cultural burns in landscape management, in addition to lightning-ignited fires that burned unhindered, impacted most of the state's...
June 08, 2020
The University of New Mexico (UNM) is among the Top 100 Worldwide Universities granted U.S. utility patents in 2019, according to a report published by the National Academy of Inventors (NAI) and Intellectual Property Owners Association (IPO).
The...
By Sarah Carpenter
June 08, 2020
According to a report by the New Mexico Department of Workforce Solutions, about an eighth of all jobs in New Mexico are in or related to STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) fields. These jobs are highly lucrative and expected to be readily...
June 05, 2020
Organizations around the globe, including The University of New Mexico (UNM), are recognizing World Environment Day and its 2020 theme: Celebrate Biodiversity.
The United Nations encourages environmental awareness by recognizing June 5 as World...
By Sarah Carpenter
June 05, 2020
A research project is underway at The University of New Mexico that investigates a potentially groundbreaking way to treat drug addiction using computational modeling to understand the role of the PICK1 protein in the brain of an individual suffering...
By Mary Beth King
June 03, 2020
Almost any grocery store is filled with products made from corn, also known as maize, in every aisle: fresh corn, canned corn, corn cereal, taco shells, tortilla chips, popcorn, corn sweeteners in hundreds of products, corn fillers in pet food, in soaps...
By Steve Carr
June 03, 2020
University of New Mexico (UNM) Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Dr. Tobias Fischer and Syracuse University research fellow (now University of Auckland Lecturer), Dr. James Muirhead led an international team of interdisciplinary researchers to...
By Sarah Carpenter
June 02, 2020
A team led by University of New Mexico Department of Psychology Assistant Professor Jeremy Hogeveen was one of 70 research groups from across the globe to contribute neuroimaging analyses to a project that seeks to understand how the methodological...
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