January
2023 UNM Research News Year-in-Review
January 02, 2024
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 New Mexico conducted a wide variety of research in many areas with worldwide impact. UNM scientists were at the forefront from solar system exploration to chimpanzee menopause to the power of plants to uranium waste solutions and the disintegration of Mayan societies.
Federal Physics Advisory Panel recommends groundbreaking strategies for U.S. investment in particle physics research
January 04, 2024
Scientists from across the country and key international partners making up the Particle Physics Project Prioritization Panel (P5) have recently sent their recommendations to U.S. funding agencies for what research projects in particle physics should be pursued in the next decade. On Dec. 8, 2023, the High Energy Physics Advisory Panel (HEPAP), a permanent advisory committee to the United States Department of Energy (DOE) and the National Science Foundation (NSF), approved this P5 report.
The Bilinski Foundation Fellowship celebrates 10 years supporting graduate research
January 09, 2024
Nearly 10 years ago, The University of New Mexico became the first institution selected to provide a unique fellowship dedicated to supporting doctoral students in the humanities.
Workshops for Hulsman Undergraduate Library Research Award
January 11, 2024
The University Libraries hosts two online workshops on Jan. 31 and Feb. 6 to help students interested in submitting research projects for the Jim and Mary Lois Hulsman Undergraduate Library Research Award, due on Feb. 12, 2024.
UNM professor awarded Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation grant for intersectionality research
January 10, 2024
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has awarded $110,000 for a yearlong study on how universities employ intersectionality or the idea that race, gender and class must be recorded as simultaneous categories of experience in data collection to truly understand complex configurations of inequities in higher education and other policy arenas.
U.S. Department of Education awards UNM-Valencia grant for ENROLL Program
January 16, 2024
Recently, the U.S. Department of Education awarded The University of New Mexico-Valencia Campus, a four-year, $2.2 million grant to establish its ENROLL Program.
UNM Engineering dean selected as New Mexico Women in Tech awardee
January 18, 2024
Donna Riley, Jim and Ellen King Dean of Engineering and Computing at The University of New Mexico, will be among eight recognized by the New Mexico Technology Council as a Women in Tech Award recipient. The honorees will be celebrated at the 2024 Women in Tech Awards on March 13 at Hotel Albuquerque.
The University of New Mexico launches The Quantum New Mexico Institute
January 22, 2024
New Mexico scientists played a pioneering role in the development of Quantum Informational Science; now The University of New Mexico (UNM) is partnering with Sandia National Laboratories to launch the University’s newest research center, the Quantum New Mexico Institute (QNM-I).
UNM researchers team up with University of Wisconsin–Madison to send tomatoes into space
January 26, 2024
New Mexico researchers and collaborating institutions are known to send some unique and unusual plants and vegetables into space – take for instance the green chile launch of 2019 – and next week, UNM Biology Professor David Hanson and his team are sending up tomatoes.
U-RISE supports student biomedical research
January 31, 2024
Among the many programs for student researchers at The University of New Mexico, the only school in the state with the prestigious R1 designation from the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education, is the Undergraduate Research Training Initiative for Student Enhancement (U-RISE). At the center of the U-RISE experience is research.
C&J Professor publishes powerful book on migrant community building
January 30, 2024
UNM Communication & Journalism Professor Michael Lechuga is not only paving the path for research on virtual reality, but an all too real one.
Lechuga has just co-authored and published the book Migrant World Making, a harrowing collection of anecdotes and theories of what happens when migrants settle into the U.S.
