A traumatic experience in her teens is driving University of New Mexico senior Abrianna Morales’s research experience and plans for a future in public service. Morales, who was named a Truman Scholar earlier this year, found a network of peers serving in their own...
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Professor Achraf Noureddine and Miss Lien Tang Win UNM Inaugural Faculty-Mentored Undergraduate Research Award
At the University of New Mexico, undergraduate students engage with world-class researchers to develop innovative new knowledge and to solve important societal challenges. In keeping with this important mission, UNM’s Office of the Vice President for Research and the...
NM grant to support Humanities transfer students
A $2 million grant from Mellon Foundation to The University of New Mexico helps bring students in the Humanities from Central New Mexico Community College and UNM branch campuses to the UNM main campus in Albuquerque where they engage with mentors on research...
UNM educators improve student experience using SEP
The university experience can be challenging to incoming students, particularly those in historically marginalized groups. The University of New Mexico is one of six schools that has been working for the past three years with the Coalition of Urban Serving...
UNM student contributes to highlighted Anthropology research
As an undergraduate student at The University of New Mexico, Alex Harris was part of a team of researchers and is co-author of a paper that was recently highlighted in a scientific journal. Her contribution included scanning hundreds of fish bones from modern and...
Undergrad researchers search for answers in Neural Diversity Lab
Mubarak Hussain Syed, an assistant professor of Biology at The University of New Mexico, and his students, many of them undergraduates, are investigating the genetic and molecular mechanics regulating neural diversity ̶ from stem cells to neural circuits. The findings...
Cantergiani and Morowski Win Top Awards at UROC 2022
Cantergiani and Morowski Win Top Awards at UROC 2022 UNM undergraduate students work closely with faculty mentors to conduct innovative and exciting research. Each spring, this research is celebrated at the annual Undergraduate Research Opportunity Conference...
Students Win Hulsman Awards for Undergraduate Research
Libraries have long been the center for student research and learning, from the ancient collections of clay tablets to the modern library containing books, digital files, and other resources in spaces meant to nurture and support learning. At The University of New...
El Puente Research Fellowship
Students don’t come to The University of New Mexico with the innate knowledge of how to conduct research. The idea of choosing a topic and carrying it through to completion can be daunting and some students are ready to give up before they even try.
Students go on-site to learn about greenhouse gas emissions
University of New Mexico Earth and Planetary Sciences students, led by Environmental Science professor Joseph Galewsky, recently left the classroom and went into the field to get firsthand experience studying greenhouse gas emissions. The project-based experience was...