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University of New Mexico Regents Professor of Biology Dr. Maggie Werner-Washburne will be honored with the 2011 Distinguished Scientist Award by the Harvard Foundation during a luncheon on Friday, April 8 in Cambridge, Mass. The award recognizes ...

Students from Blanco Elementary School in Bloomfield, NM, visited UNM this week for hands-on activities exploring polymers, nanomaterials and prosthetic finger design relating to the research conducted at the Center for Biomedical Engineering. Graduate ...

Many University of New Mexico programs made the U.S. News and World Report's list of best graduate programs for 2012, as reported in the 2012 edition of Best Graduate Schools by U.S. News Media Group. Highlights of the rankings will be published in the ...

The University of New Mexico Board of Regents elected Jack Fortner as president of the board at its March 14 organizational meeting. A Farmington attorney, Fortner was recently confirmed by the New Mexico Senate for his third term on the board. Don ...

The newest College of Education classroom building has been selected by the judges of the Associated General Contractor's Best Buildings Awards as a 2011 award recipient. Not only was the building selected as the Best Building in the $5 million to $10 ...

Darko Stefanovic, associate professor of computer science, and computer science Ph.D. students Mark Olah and Oleg Semenov use mathematical and chemical models to explore how molecular spiders move.Working with collaborators at Arizona State and Columbia, ...

The Provost's Committee for Staff (PCS) is currently accepting nominations for this year's outstanding individual staff and workgroup awards. Each spring semester, the Provost/Vice President for Academic Affairs presents annual awards honoring ...

An international team of researchers, including University of New Mexico's Peter Fawcett, has drawn a strong relationship between warmer temperatures and megadroughts during the mid-Pleistocene interglacials and the possible cause.Fawcett, an associate ...

University of New Mexico Assistant Professor Matías Fontenla, who teaches economic development, wanted his students to have a hands-on learning experience, so last year he led a group to Nicaragua, the poorest Latin American country. The students were ...

It was the late 1970's. Albuquerque was on a growth spurt and the steadily increasing numbers of single and divorced people were becoming frustrated trying to deal with a society that was primarily marriage/family oriented. Marilyn Stutt was working in ...