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Yemane Asmerom, professor in the UNM Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, was elected Fellow of the Geological Society of America (GSA) recently.

Victor Polyak, senior research scientist in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences at UNM, was recently awarded the National Speleological Society (NSS) Science award for his dedication to the research of caves. Polyak manages the UNM Radiogenic...

Annually, the University Communication and Marketing (UCAM) Department compiles a list of its top-10 research news stories from the University of New Mexico during the course of the year. Below is the list of UNM's top-10 research news stories for 2014. The stories listed are in chronological order.

Her name is Naia, and for thousands and thousands of years, the skeleton of this young woman was buried underwater in an elaborate cave system in the Yucatan Peninsula after she had apparently fallen into what was then a dry deep pit. Now, a team of...

Climate scientists have long documented the strong control of Earth’s orbital variations on the waxing and waning of the great ice ages, when huge “pluvial” lakes filled the valley floors of the Great Basin. For years it was thought that Great Basin ...

Annually, the University Communication and Marketing (UCAM) Department compiles a list of its Top-10 Research News stories from the University of New Mexico during the course of the year. Below is the list of UNM's Top-10 Research News stories for ...

Annually, the Communication and Marketing (UCAM) Department and the Office of the Vice President for Research compiles a list of its Top-10 Research News stories from the University of New Mexico during the course of the year. Below is the list of UNM's ...