News

On Monday, April 19, 2021 – nearly three months following his inauguration as the 46th President of the United States – Joe Biden issued a memo directing the nation’s two largest immigration enforcement agencies, Customs and Border Protection, and...

U.S Poet Laureate Joy Harjo, an alumna of The University of New Mexico, will be the featured speaker at the 10th annual Rudolfo and Patricia Anaya Lecture on the Literature of the Southwest sponsored by the UNM English Department. The event is Tuesday,...

The following letter was written by a group of more than 40 fire and forest scientists led by The University of New Mexico’s Matt Hurteau, a professor in the Department of Biology. It addresses concerns with a recent decision over new directives aimed at...

U.S. Sen. Martin Heinrich (D-NM) visited the Office of Medical Investigator (OMI) at The University of New Mexico last week to see the work being done by forensic anthropologist Heather Edgar and her team to improve the identification of Native American...

A group of University of New Mexico researchers are working on two Department of Energy (DOE) research grants that investigate the dynamics of spin polarized electron beams in existing and planned high energy storage rings. Research Professor Klaus...

The New Mexico Technology Council has announced its 2021 Women in Technology honorees, including UNM Regent and Rainforest Innovations Board Chair, Sandra Begay. The annual Women in Technology Awards recognizes outstanding women who represent STEM...

As the visual evidence of climate change continues to shine a glaring light on a huge problem around the globe, scientists studying at several National Science Foundation (NSF) Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) sites are tackling the issue in part by...

The U.S. Department of Education recently awarded UNM’s College Assistance Migrant Program (CAMP) more than $2.3 million that will ensure students receive services for years to come.  Throughout its tenure the program has served 587 students—many of...

Around 19,000 years ago, a woman ̶ possibly a woman of some special status ̶ from a group of hunter-gatherers died and was buried in El Mirón Cave in northern Spain. In 1996, archaeologists started exploring the cave, finding abundant evidence of prehistoric people.

It was back in 1610 when Galileo Galilei made the first telescopic observation of Mars and ever since, the fascination with the red planet for scientific research has grown astronomically. Over the course of the next century, astronomers have discovered...