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UNM-Los Alamos (UNM-LA), UNM School of Engineering and the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) recently celebrated the creation of a program in mechanical engineering to meet local workforce needs.  UNM-LA hosted an event Monday, June 7 to recognize...

To better understand the future of Earth’s changing ecosystems, a team from The University of New Mexico and colleagues from around the United States are part of a network of scientists that have been generating careful, reliable science for 40...

Alumna Rana Chan recently accepted a job at National Public Radio (NPR) headquarters in Washington D.C. as a Digital Media Planning Associate. Chan graduated summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa, earning double degrees: a B.A. in Honors Interdisciplinary...

Althea Denlinger said she always knew she wanted to work with computers - so enamored by how they work, it prompted Denlinger and her brother to build a desktop at home. After moving to Los Alamos from Pittsburgh, Denlinger worked at Hot Rocks Café and...

Longtime University of New Mexico Professor C. Jeffrey Brinker has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences, announced this week. He was among 120 members elected in recognition of their distinguished and continuing achievements in original...

Three researchers at The University of New Mexico, including two affiliated faculty at the Latin American & Iberian Institute, were awarded a five-year National Science Foundation grant to develop and test a bilingual computer programming curricula into...

Four researchers from several disciplines at The University of New Mexico recently were awarded a three-year National Science Foundation grant for their project to create new career opportunities for rural craftspeople by blending traditional craft...

Right now, 99.7 percent of New Mexico is in a severe drought, 82.2 percent is in extreme drought and 53.4 percent is facing exceptional drought – all of which create considerable strain on local communities, agricultural efforts and wildlife. In the...

Mars is in the news with the landing of the Perseverance rover and there is a renewed interest in the red planet. In the March issue of National Geographic, professor Maria Lane of The University of New Mexico Department of Geography & Environmental...

Professor Blair Wolf and Ph.D. student Ric Ramirez from the Department of Biology at The University of New Mexico and colleagues published a paper in Science this week about their research that shows bird populations and species richness in the Mojave...