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Scientists from The University of New Mexico (UNM), and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have detected and validated two of the longest-period exoplanets found by TESS to date. These long period large exoplanets orbit a K dwarf star and belong...

After a highly competitive process, University of New Mexico President Garnett S. Stokes has announced the three newest multi-disciplinary teams to join the Grand Challenges program as Level 2 teams, Child Health, Just Transition to Green Energy, and...

The instability of Stokes waves (steady propagating waves on the surface of an ideal fluid with infinite depth) represents a fundamental challenge in the realm of nonlinear science. A team of researchers recently identified the origin of breaking oceanic...

The University of New Mexico-Taos (UNM-Taos) K-12 Outreach Program Director Paralee King, who is coming off a successful summer of workshops designed for K-12 students, has more to celebrate. She recently learned that her application for the Encantado...

Starting Sept. 1, and continuing throughout the football and basketball seasons, Game Day Fridays are the perfect opportunity for Lobos to showcase their team spirit in style. Every Friday, shop at the UNM Bookstores, both on-campus and online, and...

The University of New Mexico is set to host an inaugural New Mexico Postdoctoral Research Symposium on Friday, Sept. 22. The event is the perfect opportunity for UNM postdocs to present their research in front of the campus community. Postdocs will...

UNM's Grand Challenges and the Interdisciplinary Science Cooperative have teamed up to bring Grand Challenges Day and the Team Research Symposium together in one special event for the campus community. Faculty, staff, students, and alumni are invited to...

Tonmoy Chakraborty, Ph.D., assistant professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at University of New Mexico, has received a five-year, $1.82 million National Institutes of Health (NIH) Maximizing Investigators’ Research Award (R35) to further...

Jordan-Nicholas Salazar from UNM-Los Alamos is one of 213 Phi Theta Kappa members named a 2023 Coca-Cola Leaders of Promise Scholar and will receive a $1,000 scholarship.  UNM-Los Alamos extends its congratulations to Salazar and his fellow scholarship...

There’s more that meets the eye when it comes to most things in life. In one specific area of research, however, the impulse to dive deeper and look beyond the surface had long been avoided.    That’s something UNM Sociology Professor and director and...