The mission of the Office of the Vice President for Research (OVPR) is to advance innovation and discovery. The core of this mission is the research, scholarship, and creative works of UNM faculty. The OVPR seeks to facilitate these activities, resulting in new knowledge and applications of value to academic communities and the public.
As The University of New Mexico continues to work to "Bring Back the Pack", resumption of curtailed research operations will occur in alignment with applicable state, national, and regional guidelines and and determined by university leadership. All guidelines and worksite protocols can be found on the Bringing Back the Pack website.
Effective May 16 – August 2, 2021: Research should plan to resume and include human subjects research, field work, etc. during the summer and intersession. Researchers are reminded that everyone is expected to remain in compliance with NMDOH safety standards as well as UNM policies. Further details can be found here: Bringing Back the Pack Research Guidelines.
Gabriel Sanchez and Shannon Sanchez-Youngman at The University of New Mexico are helping lead a national effort to understand effective COVID-19 vaccine messaging and hesitancy factors.
UNM Assistant Professor Francis-Yan Cyr-Racine hopes to take cosmology to a new level with a new grant from the National Science Foundation
The Exercise Physiology Lab is one of The University of New Mexico’s very own hidden gems serving as a teaching, research and clinical facility for students, staff, faculty and individuals in the community across the state.
U.S. Sen. Martin Heinrich (D-NM) visited the Office of Medical Investigator (OMI) at The University of New Mexico recently to see the work being done by forensic anthropologist Heather Edgar and her team to improve the identification of Native American remains and resolve missing persons cases.
During a recent exhibitions design class taught by professor Devorah Romanek, curator of exhibits at the Maxwell Museum of Anthropology at The University of New Mexico, the works of two photographers who chronicled life in New Mexico captured the interest of two graduate students.
The article, The Lepidoptera of Cuatrociénegas Protected Area 1. A new species in the genus Callistege Hübner, [1823] (Erebidae, Erebinae, Euclidiini) from the Chihuahuan Desert, Coahuila, Mexico, details their find, one of 27 new species of insects in a multi-year survey of arthropods in White Sands National Monument and Cuatrociénegas Protected Area.
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