Neuroscientist Rex Jung uses neuroimaging to discover the origins and processes behind human creativity.
Imagine if your creativity had no limits. The possibilities of what you could conceive would be endless. Where might humankind be without the combined power of creativity, intelligence, and personality? Would we have gone to the moon?
For some, creativity seems to come effortlessly; for others it takes concerted effort. Rex Jung, an associate professor at UNM School of Medicine's Department of Neurosurgery and research scientist at the Mind Research Network (MRN), was awarded a three-year, $600,000 grant in 2007 from the John Templeton Foundation to investigate why creativity appears in different forms in different people. full story....
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New research identifies specific combinations of ecological traits that may put some mammal species in greater jeopardy of extinction.
As the human population continues to grow and resource demands soar, biodiversity conservation has never been more critical. Researchers Ana Davidson, Marcus Hamilton, Alison Boyer, and James Brown in the UNM Biology Department, and collaborator Gerardo Ceballos at the Instituto de Ecologia, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (UNAM), have studied extinction in mammals through multiple ecological pathways and published the findings in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
The research represents an important advance and is vital to understanding the causes of extinction risk in mammals. It also goes beyond previous analyses on extinction risk by identifying specific combinations of ecological traits that cause some species to be at greater risk than others. full story...
