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General News
Goldman Sachs Gives Public Service in Health Care Award established with $500,000 endowment
UNM Psychology Professor Emeritus Peder Johnson remembered
August 23, 2023
Dean Jennifer Malat begins leadership of UNM’s largest academic unit
August 18, 2023
College of Arts & Sciences announces promotion and tenure of thirty-three faculty
July 19, 2023
Four faculty from the College of Arts & Sciences Promoted to Distinguished Professor
July 5, 2023
Jennifer Malat named dean of the UNM College of Arts & Sciences
June 14, 2023
Research News
The College of Arts & Sciences launches Sandia @ UNM speaker series
April 15, 2024
UNM’s partnerships with National Laboratories are integral to supporting our research, education, and service mission. To foster these relationships and increase our research capacity, the Colle…
UNM alum research examines the future of bees in the Southwest
April 14, 2024
Newly published research by The University of New Mexico alumnus Melanie Kazenel and colleagues predicts climate change will reshape bee communities in the southwest United States, with some thriving …
UNM scientists find blue light makes buildings more deadly to migrating birds
April 11, 2024
Bird collisions with buildings are nothing new, but a new study by scientists at The University of New Mexico sheds light on a potential cause.
The study, "Disentangling the biotic and abi…
Rare Disease Advocates Unite for Research and Support at Rare Disease Day Event
April 9, 2024
Rare disease patients, their families, researchers, and clinicians all gathered at The University of New Mexico Rare Disease Day on February 29 to advocate for advances in care, research, and policy f…
UNM team receives $600,000 DoD grant designed to strengthen basic research infrastructure
April 3, 2024
A collaborative project at The University of New Mexico will receive part of $17.6 million in grants the Department of Defense is awarding to 27 academic teams under the Defense Established Program to…
Building Indigenous, sovereign data at UNM
April 3, 2024
New Mexico is home to many thriving Indigenous communities, yet due to outdated information and data, the real stories of those communities are not being told. A transformative initiative started by a…
CASAA professor's research on sports betting and binge drinking published in prestigious journal
April 1, 2024
UNM’s Center on Alcohol, Substance Use and Addictions (CASAA) is recognizing a new piece of research being published in the prestigious journal JAMA Network Open.
This spotlight centers on a cri…
Department of Defense awards $232,320 in funding to UNM's Department of Chemistry & Chemical Biology
March 30, 2024
The Department of Defense (DOD) recently announced awards totaling $161 million to 281 university researchers under the Defense University Research Instrumentation Program or DURIP. The awards, which …
Sleeping supermassive black holes awakened briefly by shredded stars
March 26, 2024
Imagine walking through the mall and seeing babies everywhere you looked. It would be a strange experience in part because, naturally, a sample of the population should include people at every stage o…
A new look at Grand Canyon springs and possible threats from uranium mining
March 25, 2024
A new research paper published recently in Annual Reviews of Earth and Planetary Sciences, coordinated by scientists from The University of New Mexico and collaborating institutions, addresses the com…