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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...

Taken as a share of the market price, the climate change impacts of mining the digital cryptocurrency Bitcoin is more comparable to the impacts of extracting and refining crude oil than mining gold, according to an analysis published in Scientific...

The Department of Education (DOE) has awarded the University of New Mexico Children’s Campus a four-year, $4 million Child Care Access Means Parents in School (CCAMPIS) grant—marking a substantial increase from the program's previous CCAMPIS awards. The...

This week on New Mexico in Focus, Gene and the Line Opinion Panel react to the news that Sen. Daniel Ivey-Soto has been removed from one of his committee assignments in the wake of several sexual harassment accusations.    Then the panelists take a...

Faculty and students in The University of New Mexico School of Engineering are continuing their work to optimize the park-and-ride bus service during the Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta, which will attract tens of thousands of visitors...

The Data Bank at the University of New Mexico's Bureau of Business and Economic Research (BBER) invites you to register and attend its 24th Annual NM Data Users Conference Nov. 16. This year's conference will be held in-person.  BBER has worked hard to...