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He was an English novelist, journalist and social critic -- and this month he is the topic of a free public discussion: Doublespeak and Fake News: How George Orwell Matters Today. The event, sponsored by the Rio Grande Chapter of the Society of...

“We are water. Our bodies hold streams—sweat, blood, tears, urine. Each of us is a walking river, sloshing along with damp insides held together by a paper-thin skin,” says Professor Emerita Basia Irland. Irland is the guest lecturer for the next Lobo...

The waterways of New Mexico are dominated by intermittent streams and rivers. Estimates are that almost 90 percent of the stream and river miles in New Mexico cease to flow at sometime during the year. Examples of intermittent rivers in central New...

Nearly a 140 participants gathered at The University of New Mexico Student Union Building recently to discuss the various water problems facing the state of New Mexico. The conference was sponsored by UNM’s Center for Water and the Environment. Concerns...

A University of New Mexico Ph.D. student is perfecting a new way to forecast stream flow levels with tremendous accuracy.

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 ...

Spanish settlement of the Middle Rio Grande Valley in New Mexico changed the way people lived, but a new paper in the journal, The Holocene" by UNM Assistant Professor of Anthropology Emily Jones suggests the change did not come quickly.  

This year as part of Staff Appreciation Month (SAM), the University of New Mexico will celebrate its staff with an evening of fun and excitement for all ages at the Rio Grande Zoo on Saturday, July 26 from 6:30 to 9:30 p.m.

The 24th Annual Rio Grande Symposium on Advanced Materials will be held on Monday, Oct. 22, 2012 at the Hotel Albuquerque. Organizers are currently soliciting abstracts in all areas of materials science and engineering includingMaterials for Energy ...

Organizers of the 23rd Annual Rio Grande Symposium on Advanced Materials have issued a call for papers. The Symposium allows researchers in the Rio Grande geographic region to exchange technical information. The Symposium is an outgrowth of the Joint ...