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Shaggy, heavy-shouldered bison have grazed the wide open spaces of the American Southwest for thousands of years. They made a tempting target for the hunters who walked the empty landscape between 9,000 and 13,000 years ago. The bison were attracted to a...

Four startups at the University of New Mexico, including three at the UNM’s Center for High Technology Materials (CHTM), were among six startup companies benefiting from $300,000 in first round funding to help develop and commercialize several innovative...

University of New Mexico Leslie Spier Distinguished Professor of Anthropology Lawrence Guy Straus found his life’s work as a young boy allowed into the study of his long-deceased French grandfather where he alone could look in the cabinet drawers, at the...

University of New Mexico Vice President for Research Gabriel P. López has been chosen to receive the 2016 STC.UNM Innovation Fellow Award in recognition of his achievements as one of the UNM’s leading innovators.  This special award is presented each...

Inside an aged, unassuming laboratory in The University of New Mexico’s Maxwell Museum of Anthropology, a group of scientists look to the dead for answers. UNM’s Laboratory of Human Osteology is one of the largest in the country, according to Curator...

It’s a relatively new focus in the science world, but for University of New Mexico Assistant Professor Ramesh Giri, ‘sustainable chemistry’ has proven to be a very worthwhile area of research.

It started with a vision – a vision to build a world class research-focused laboratory to support stable isotope research while providing hands on graduate and undergraduate instruction that also encourages a cross-disciplinary exchange of ideas and...

The federal REAL ID Act bans federal agencies from acceptng IDs that do not measure up to the ID standards promulgated by the federal government. The federal government has delayed implementation of the REAL ID Act for years. The Department of Homeland...

Graduate students from the University of New Mexico recently showcased their research at this year’s Graduate Education Day, at the state capitol building. Legislators welcomed students from each of New Mexico’s six graduate schools as they made the case...

It began with a man walking along a shallow wash near Abiquiu, New Mexico one afternoon and noticing some flakes of what looked like bone. He happened to be walking near the property line, maybe on his neighbor’s property. So he went to visit his...