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What if you could alter your hair to reflect any color in the spectrum?  What if you could use a flatiron to press a pattern into your new hair color?  Those are possibilities suggested by research from the University of New Mexico and...

The University of New Mexico and Sandia National Laboratories have selected Fernando Garzon, whose background is in materials science and engineering, as the latest jointly-appointed faculty member between the two institutions. Beginning Sept. 8, ...

K-12 teachers who are taking part in the National Science Foundation Research Experience for Teachers program got a crash course recently in Arduinos on how they can incorporate small microcontrollers into lessons for their science students.

What do Ruben Cobos, Tony Hillerman, U.S. Route 66 and “El Hispano News” all have to do with each other? They are all new collections and digital projects at the Center for Southwest Research and Special Collections, a part of the University of New Mex

Climate scientists have long documented the strong control of Earth’s orbital variations on the waxing and waning of the great ice ages, when huge “pluvial” lakes filled the valley floors of the Great Basin. For years it was thought that Great Basin ...

The National Academy of Sciences has announced that Distinguished Professor of Anthropology Patricia Crown has been elected as a member. This is one of the highest honors accorded to scientists and is given in recognition ...

If you visit the National Hispanic Cultural Center between now and November you will see amazing images from the aftermath of a street battle and a struggle for public education you probably never knew happened. For many years in Oaxaca, Mexico’s teac

In a short ceremony on Jan. 17 the University of New Mexico and Sandia National Laboratories (SNL) signed an Inter-Institutional Visitor Agreement (IVA) to allow access for UNM researchers to the Annular Core Research Reactor (ACRR) facility and ...

Jane Lehr, chair, Electrical and Computer EngineeringThe UNM School of Engineering has announced that Jane Lehr will join the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering as professor and chair on Aug. 1, 2013. Lehr is an internationally respected ...

The virtual watershed framework will be tested with data from three well-instrumented watersheds, one in each state. In New Mexico, data will be collected from the Jemez Watershed in the Valles Caldera. Image courtesy Natalie WilloughbyNew Mexico, Nevada ...