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The Micius Foundation today named three scientists, including University of New Mexico Distinguished Professor Emeritus Carlton Caves, as recipients of the Micius Quantum Prize 2020 which focuses on the broadly defined field of quantum metrology,...

University of New Mexico Ph.D. Student Siavash Nikravesh and Mechanical Engineering Professor and Department Chair Yu-Lin Shen, using Center for Advanced Research Computing resources, have developed a new three-dimensional modeling approach to solving...

University of New Mexico Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs James Holloway recently announced the appointment of Dr. Mary Jo Daniel as acting/interim Vice President for Research (VPR), effective immediately. Daniel will serve as...

As the deadly COVID-19 pandemic continues to wreak havoc around the world with no end in sight, new ways in which to stop the spread or mitigate the effects of the disease are few. Although most experts agree that a vaccine would significantly slow or...

Anyone who took high school biology might have encountered the genus Drosophila. Also known as the fruit fly or the vinegar fly, the insect is prized by researchers because they have a simple, prolific reproductive cycle, making it easy to study many...

Language matters—spiritually, culturally, emotionally. Written and spoken words are an art form, a way for values and traditions to be passed down for generations. When a language is lost, part of that culture is lost. By the same measure, when language...

A research study at The University of New Mexico and the Mind Research Network (MRN) is picking up right where it left off after the pandemic slowed recruitment efforts. The study that aims to identify neurocognitive and neurobehavioral mechanisms of...

Despite the fact that women tend to outlive men in almost all societies, they experience more sickness along the way. This so-called ‘gender-health’ paradox has long puzzled researchers. Biological differences between the sexes – females’ higher body fat...

Kimberly Gauderman, associate professor of History at The University of New Mexico, will address “Gender Identity and Sexual Orientation in U.S. Asylum Law” as part of the Feminist Research Institute’s Distinguished Feminist Research Lecture series. The...

Although U.S. veterans experience PTSD at rates of up to 30 percent, there are no objective measures to help identify individuals with PTSD. A currently funded grant from the National Institutes of Health to the University of New Mexico is intended to...