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Melissa Emery Thompson, professor and associate chair of The University of New Mexico’s anthropology department, has been named a 2024 American Association for the Advancement of Science or AAAS Fellow. This prestigious distinction is a lifetime honor...

After nine months of specialized training, mentorship and workshops, the inaugural cohort of 21 researchers have successfully completed UNM’s Fostering Research Expansion in the Social Sciences and Humanities (FRESSH) pilot program.    In February, The...

A team of researchers from The University of New Mexico, working with the Kibale Chimpanzee Project in Uganda, have found similarities in the way chimpanzees and humans age. In their recently published paper, Wild chimpanzees exhibit humanlike aging of...

Nearly two decades ago, researchers at The University of New Mexico took interest in a project that took them to the lush jungles of southwestern Uganda. Not far from the borders of the Congo, these desert-dwelling Anthropologists established...

In a new study published this week in the journal “Nature,” UNM Assistant Professor of Anthropology Melissa Emery Thompson is one of a group of researchers analyzing the way humans store fat and expend the energy from food.