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Church Rock, N.M. has been home to the Diné, Navajo people, long before uranium mines appeared during the Cold War and is the site of one of the worst nuclear accidents in recorded U.S. history. On-going and slow-paced uranium mine waste cleanup efforts...

The University of New Mexico has been awarded $1.6 million from the National Science Foundation to continue a successful program to provide educational materials and services to industry trainers and educators on the growing science and technology of...

A new computing system to be donated to The University of New Mexico Center for Advanced Research Computing (CARC) by Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) will put the “super” in supercomputing. The system is nine times more powerful than the combined...

Julian Vigil is a point of pride for the Lobo pack. The Chemical Engineering senior was just named as one of the elite Churchill Scholars. The Churchill Scholarship was set up at...

A group from The University of New Mexico has received a grant from the National Science Foundation for a project that will develop a way to produce solar cells using nanotechnology, which could translate into more cost-effective solar panels for...

The University of New Mexico signed a master collaboration agreement with Honeywell Federal Manufacturing & Technologies today, facilitating closer collaboration on research and development of new technology to meet national security needs.

For the last two weeks, six University of New Mexico students, three faculty members, two volunteers from New Mexico and 14 local laborers have been working on a new women’s community center in Bahunipati, Nepal. Two local coordinators and a junior...

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 Lobo Engineering team won first place, $2,500 and the Intel Environmental Innovation Award for their design in “The People’s Water” Treatment of Wastewater for Reuse” in the 26th Annual International Environmental Design Contest. The competition was...

To say Christopher DeGraw took a slightly different path to becoming an engineer would be an understatement. The Connecticut native earned a bachelor’s in music education and a master’s in musicology (from Ithaca College and the University of Limerick...