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New Mexico PBS January Science Café presents “Obesity in America,” Saturday, Jan. 30 from 10 a.m. to noon at the National Hispanic Cultural Center located at 1701 4th Street SW. The event is free and open to the public. A segment of a PBS program will ...

Scientists at the University of New Mexico conducted research to effectively study carbon emissions through fault systems in the East African Rift (EAR) in an effort to understand carbon emissions from the Earth’s interior and how it affects the...

Research scientists from universities across the state are making progress on some of the complex research needed to address obstacles related to energy independence.

Two faculty members from the University of New Mexico School of Engineering will lead research activities for a new National Science Foundation Grant. Assistant Professor Ricardo Gonzalez-Pinzon and Associate Professor Andrew Schuler, both in the UNM ...

Ann Ravel, the chair of the Federal Election Commission, an independent regulatory agency created to administer and enforce campaign finance laws in the U.S., speaks Friday, Sept. 18 at 11 a.m. at the Jackson Student Center in Anderson School of...

For nearly two decades, University of New Mexico Leslie Spier Distinguished Professor of Anthropology Lawrence G. Straus, his colleague Manuel R. Gonzalez Morales from the University of Cantabria and their students have spent part of every summer in Spain, in a cave that once held penned goats. They have been searching for a glimpse of the inhabitants who lived in this part of the world between 40 and 3,000 years ago.

Economics professor Alok Bohara wants to establish the Nepal Studies Center at the University of New Mexico as a beacon. Bohara is the founder and expert guiding the Nepal Study Center’s research and community engagement work in Nepal. A...

The Center for Voting, Elections and Democracy at the University of New Mexico announced the release of a report examining the Bernalillo County Clerk’s office administration of the November 2014 general election in Bernalillo County from early voting to election day.

The University of New Mexico is hosting the 2015 Cyber-security summer camp for high school students.  The two week camp will be held on UNM’s main campus July 13-17 and 20-24.  Sessions will start each day at 9 a.m. and end at 4 p.m.  Camp activities...

It began with a National Science Foundation travel grant to Nepal. Three faculty members from the University of New Mexico and three graduate students spent the winter break between semesters traveling in Nepal, meeting people and talking with potential...