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The University of New Mexico Department of Anthropology is celebrating National Native American Heritage Month in November with a treasure trove of information and resources on its website, including Native American history, scholars, events, research,...

Darcy Barron, an assistant professor from Physics and Astronomy at The University of New Mexico, was recently awarded a three-year NSF grant of $393,000 to develop instrumentation and analysis tools to better monitor the cosmic microwave background...

A new center at The University of New Mexico will focus on innovative ways to help people overcome experiences with chronic pain or opioid use. Researchers at UNM’s Center on Alcohol, Substance Use and Addiction (CASAA) received a grant for more than $10...

Proof of vaccine will be required for those attending the performance of Poet Laureate Joy Harjo for the Rudolfo and Patricia Anaya Lecture on the Literature of the Southwest at the National Hispanic Cultural Center on Tuesday, Oct. 5. All ticketed...

It’s October and The University of New Mexico is joining institutions across the country in recognizing National Domestic Violence Awareness Month (DVAM). Domestic violence harms more than victims. It harms communities and our nation as a whole. Stemming...

A faculty member from The University of New Mexico is one of the researchers on a recently-funded National Science Foundation project that focuses on carbon capture and conversion in manufacturing. Shuya Wei, an assistant professor in the Department...

UNM Postdoctoral Fellow of Anthropology April Kamp-Whittaker has been awarded the prestigious NSF SPARC Grant and an American Philosophical Society Franklin Research Grant. Kamp-Whittaker is using the NSF SPARC Grant to develop a ArcGIS StoryMap...

Mousumi Roy, a Regents’ lecturer and associate professor in The University of New Mexico’s Physics and Astronomy Department, was recently awarded two National Science Foundation grants, including a Mid-Career Advancement grant for her work examining how...

In 2018, the National Museum of Brazil was ravaged by a fire that destroyed a huge collection of irreplaceable historical artifacts. Among the 20 million items lost in the blaze were antiquities collected by the imperial family in the 19th century,...

A team of researchers from The University of New Mexico’s Museum of Southwestern Biology (MSB) conducted an inventory survey of the insects and other arthropods of White Sands National Monument, New Mexico, and sister park, Cuatrociengas Protected Area,...