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University of New Mexico Provost Chaouki Abdallah has announced the launch of the search for a new Vice President for Research. Julie Coonrod, dean, Graduate Studies, has been appointed chair of the search committee. The selected candidate will take ...

As with the proverbial canary carried by miners, birds serve as an indicator of the health of our environment. Many common species have experienced significant population declines within the last 40 years. Suggested causes include habitat loss and ...

If Victor Frankenstein had been forced to face an institutional review board in 1790 before he created his monster, would he ever have been able to begin his project to create a human life from the remaindered parts of dead bodies?

UNM Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering Ricardo González-Pinzón is conducting research on rainfall-runoff processes and water quality modeling using parsimonious models. González-Pinzón was recently awarded a faculty water research grant by the Ne

Parish Memorial Library celebrates 45 years of providing services to UNM and the community during October and November with a lecture series and exhibit.

Will the skills faculty members teach students today be what they need to navigate a work life that constantly shifts beneath their feet? That’s a hard call.                                                            

Charles Menzies, a member of the Gitxaala Nation of British Columbia, will speak on “Oil, Energy & Anthropological Collaboration on the North West Coast of Canada” for the Journal of Anthropological Research lecture on Thursday, Oct. 2 at 7:30 p.m. in

Scientists at the University of New Mexico have moved a step closer to improving medical science through research involving muscle manipulation of fruit flies. They discovered in the flight muscles of Drosophila a new regulator of a process called ...

A research discovery was born from great frustration when Eric Peterson, a graduate student in Nanoscience and Microsystems Engineering at UNM, set out to learn a new measuring technique four years ago as part of his Ph.D.. Peterson, a non-traditional ...

University of New Mexico Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering Sang M. Han has been appointed new director of the Nanoscience and Microsystems Engineering Program. Graduate students in this program are given extraordinary latitude to design their own research