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Spring brings a buzz to campus, and sometimes that means visits from local honeybees. Most bees just stop by for a cruise around the variety of flowering flora to collect their valuable nectar, but when they are discovered to have made a permanent home...

The Biology Department at The University of New Mexico hosts its 26th annual Research Days and Open House Thursday and Friday, March 30-31. This annual event showcases student research, and celebrates discovery and education in the biological...

A new endowed fund, established by two local optometrists, will help support the most urgent needs in The University of New Mexico Department of Biology. The Dr. William Jones & Dr. Siu Wong Biology Urgent Needs Endowed Fund will provide a scholarship...

In rare instances, DNA is known to have jumped from one species to another. If a parasite’s DNA jumps to its host’s genome, it could leave evidence of that parasitic interaction that could be found millions of years later — a DNA ‘fossil’ of...

Ayșe Muñiz, a senior in biochemistry from Alamogordo, N.M., will soon be leaving the sunny state of New Mexico she’s always called home for the northern frontiers of Michigan.  

Defense systems against pathogens are a critical life-support system of fish that helps protect against infection. A complex network of immune cells and molecules that are located at the interface between the environment and the host, the mucosal immune system of vertebrates, such as fish, is the first line of defense against life-threatening pathogens.

The UNM Biology Department hosts its 24th Annual Research Day and Open House this Thursday and Friday, March 26-27. The annual event is a showcase of student research celebrating discovery and education in the biological sciences.

Graduateprograms.com compiled their first ever Top Graduate Programs according to students, raking the best graduate programs in the country in a variety of fields based solely on ratings and reviews from current and recent graduate students. UNM is ...

The UNM Physical Plant Department will begin cleaning the Duck Pond over the weekend. The cleaning is done every few years because sludge accumulates on the bottom of the shallow pond displacing water and causing stress to fish in the pond.UNM grounds ...

An agreement signed recently between the University of New Mexico's Museum of Southwestern Biology (MSB), the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science (NMMNHS), and the State of New Mexico, Department of Cultural Affairs (DCA), has led to the ...