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During this year’s general election, voters statewide have the opportunity to help The University of New Mexico upgrade several old and outdated laboratories in a number of key areas across campus with the passage of GO Bond C including the Department of...

The day after a rare snowstorm hit the state in early September with snow, cold, and gusts up to 70 mph, The University of New Mexico student Jenna McCullough received an email with a report of dead birds at the Tijeras ranger station. It was her first...

In 2015, professors Blair Wolf and Chris Witt from The University of New Mexico Biology department traveled to Peru to examine how hummingbirds survived the extreme Andes Mountains temperatures. Witt received a National Science Foundation grant to...

The University of New Mexico (UNM) has received a $3 million award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for an innovative graduate education program centered in the University’s science museums. The Museum Research Training Program (MRT) is a...

The 21st century has already seen multiple major new disease outbreaks, from SARS and MERS to Ebola and Zika, culminating in the current COVID-19 pandemic. The global human suffering, economic damage, and social disruption the global population is...

A research project is underway at The University of New Mexico that investigates a potentially groundbreaking way to treat drug addiction using computational modeling to understand the role of the PICK1 protein in the brain of an individual suffering...

Almost any grocery store is filled with products made from corn, also known as maize, in every aisle: fresh corn, canned corn, corn cereal, taco shells, tortilla chips, popcorn, corn sweeteners in hundreds of products, corn fillers in pet food, in soaps...

With local healthcare workers facing a shortage of personal protective equipment (PPE), the Maxwell Museum of Anthropology, UNM Art Museum, and Museum of Southwest Biology recently donated their supply of gloves and N-95 masks to UNM Hospital. 

The Museum of Southwestern Biology (MSB) invites the public to view its natural history collections on Sunday, March 8 from 12-5 p.m. This second annual event is being called ‘The Science of Biodiversity’ because it will feature scientific research that...

Looking at the past may help the future when combating some viruses in humans, especially the evolutionary history of hantaviruses. Schuyler Liphardt, who is working on his Ph.D. in biology at The University of New Mexico, is part of a team that...