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Recently, there's been a fair amount of interest and excitement about whether or not there is actually water on the moon. And it's true, water has been detected on the moon's surface through remote sensing. However, researchers at the University of New ...

David G. Whitten is the kind of professor his students remember for a lifetime, and they and his professional colleagues will celebrate his contributions to research and teaching in a two-day symposium scheduled for Thursday-Friday, Aug. 19-20 on the ...

According to the fall 2008 survey, 13 percent of the students reported being dissatisfied with their overall UNM housing experience. Since fall 2008, Residence Life and Student Housing has spent $11.8 million to improve student housing. "While survey ...

President David J. Schmidly met Friday with university deans, senior administrators, faculty representatives and branch directors for the first of a series of discussions focused on how the university will manage its latest round of budget cuts as well ...

Blair Wolf, an associate professor of biology at UNM, and his collaborator Andrew McKechnie from the University of Pretoria in South Africa, have been studying how increasing global temperatures will impact desert bird populations. They have found that ...

JSTOR Plant Science is an amazing new resource. It's basically an online meta-herbarium. For the non-botanists among us, that's basically a dead plant museum. But online! And really super cool! Institutions around the world have contributed digitized ...

Susan Tiano, director of the Latin American & Iberian Institute announces that the LAII has received Title VI National Resource Center and Foreign Language and Area Studies funding from the U.S. Department of Education. Over the four year cycle of the ...

Students who want more from their time in high school can enroll for dual credit courses at the University of New Mexico. UNM has been accepting high school students since 2008 in a dual enrollment program that allows students to get high school credit ...

The West Wing of Zimmerman Library will reopen at the start of the fall semester. It is temporarily closed to allow the installation of a fire suppressions system. However, library employees will be able to retrieve books shelved in the area for check ...

When the economy crashed, the United States government was blamed for failing to effectively regulate the financial sector. Two years later, may similar problems have led to the BP oil spill?Whether financial or environmental, regulation determines how ...