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Biologists at the Vesbach Lab at The University of New Mexico have been using Center for Advanced Research Computing resources to analyze viruses found in the McMurdo Dry Valleys of Antarctica. Funded by a grant from the Joint Genome Institute, Ph.D....

Startling new research by a team of professors from The University of New Mexico revealed that many UNM students may not be getting their food and housing needs met. This week, the UNM Basic Needs Project released its 2020 research report Basic Needs...

The Species in Peril project at UNM, in partnership with the Office of the U.S. Senator Tom Udall, Office of Congresswoman Deb Haaland, New Mexico BioPark Society, and the Southwest Environmental Center, is launching the UNM Biodiversity Webinar...

In the fall of 2019, a group of researchers from Google released a paper boldly claiming that the company had achieved “quantum supremacy,” or the use of a quantum system to perform calculations that would be practically impossible using classical...

It’s been more than 50 years since the Apollo missions, and in that time, chemical analyses of the recovered lunar materials have revolutionized our understanding of planetary materials. One of the major findings as a result of this research is the...

A University of New Mexico graduate student has shattered the fastest known time for a self-supported hike by a female on the 485-mile Colorado Trail. Mikaela Osler is a second-year MFA student studying creative nonfiction in the Department of English...

Assistant Professor Paulo Dutra of The University of New Mexico Department of Spanish and Portuguese is a 2020 semifinalist for the highly prestigious Prêmio Oceanos, the Oceanos Prize for Literature in the Portuguese Language. His book, Abliteraçōes,...

As COVID-19 swept across the world this year, claiming hundreds of thousands of lives, it quickly became clear that one essential factor for controlling its spread is the ability to rapidly and accurately test for the virus causing it, SARS-CoV-2, as...

It was August 28, 1963, when civil rights activist Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his iconic I Have a Dream speech on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in our nation’s capital. It was delivered in front of some 250,000 people at the "March on...

The Journal of Anthropological Research (JAR) announced the guest speaker for its 50th installment of the JAR Distinguished Lectures. The series founded by Lawrence Straus, the Leslie Spier Distinguished Professor Emeritus in the University of New Mexico...