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University Communication and Marketing (UCAM) annually compiles a Year-in-Review highlighting both its general and research news and feature stories across campus during the course of the calendar year. In this Research Year-in-Review, The University of...

A new National Science Foundation-funded project is tackling a perplexing problem — that of the toxic heavy metals left behind after uranium mining in Native American communities in New Mexico — from a multifaced angle. Instead of offering a top-down,...

New Mexico found itself at ground zero of a changed world on July 16, 1945 when scientists from the newly created Los Alamos National Laboratory detonated the world’s first atomic bomb, exposing nearby communities to radiation. Just 34 years later to the...

“The Legacy of Uranium Mining on Navajo Nation: an environmental impact workshop” will be hosted in Zimmerman Library on Thursday, Nov. 17 at noon in the Willard Reading Room.  

Research scientists from universities across the state are making progress on some of the complex research needed to address obstacles related to energy independence.

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

José M. Cerrato, a new assistant professor in the Department of Civil Engineering at UNM has a smile that lights up a room when he talks about his work. “I feel blessed to have this job because it is not merely technically teaching a subject,” he says.