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Late at night on Sept. 15, 1810 in Guanajuato, Mexico Father Miguel Hidalgo set into motion a series of events that rallied Mexican workers to stand unified in their opposition to Spanish Colonial rule.UNM students Mikey G. de la Rosa and Michael Wolff ...

Interim Chair and Professor in the Mechanical Engineering Department at UNM, Yu-Lin Shen has written a book that gives an in-depth look at the mechanical analysis and modeling of advanced small-scale structures and heterogeneous material systems. The ...

Sept. 1 was the first day the state of New Mexico began withholding 3.2445 percent of the monthly allocations of state funding going to the University of New Mexico. This latest cut in a series going back to 2008 was the topic of much conversation at the ...

Keeping at-risk children and adolescents free of brain disease is a focus of studies funded by more than $10.8 million in recent awards to The Mind Research Network (MRN)."The grants will boost MRN studies into addiction with great emphasis on preventing ...

Two young research profs from UNMHave set out to follow a whimThey think they can rideThe information tideWithout losing their way in the din. While trying to come up with a lead for this story on complicated research, I wrote a dumb limerick. Thinking ...

Julia Fulghum, the UNM Vice President for Research spoke to a Legislative Finance Committee hearing last Thursday, Aug. 12, about the breadth and scope of research at UNM.She spoke about UNM's role as a flagship institution, and a Carnegie Very High ...

Chimpanzees living at the Alamogordo Primate Facility have been retired from medical research for almost ten years, but that retirement is set to end. Many are fighting to stop the chimps from being relocated out-of-state for more invasive testing. For ...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded a $600,000 grant to the Configurable Space Microsystems Innovations and Applications Center (COSMIAC) to advance reconfigurable electronics education in community colleges. The project "Developing the ...

With the underlying premise that New Mexico students need to complete college at a price they can afford, analysts from the Legislative Finance Committee presented a performance evaluation of the University of New Mexico and New Mexico State University ...

The Office of the Provost has announced the Search Committee for the Dean of School of Engineering. This committee is chaired by Dean Doug Brown of Anderson Schools of Management.Members of the Search Committee are:Steve Brueck, Director of CHTMMahmoud ...