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UNM alumna part of Mars rover research team

Planetary scientist encourages more women to enter the field

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Climate research paints bleak picture for large birds in Mojave Desert

UNM scientist helps lead effort linking species declines to climate change

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The Quantum Information Edge launches to accelerate quantum computing R&D for breakthrough science

UNM part of strategic alliance

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Early detection of brain degeneration on the horizon with innovative sensor

UNM research builds on findings involving protein aggregation in brain cells and neurodegenerative diseases

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2019 Research Year-in-Review

The University of New Mexico's Office of the Vice President for Research and the University Communication and Marketing (UCAM) Department annually compiles a Year-in-Review for its research features during the course of the calendar year.

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Mission

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 New Mexico's flagship university, UNM is at the forefront of educating our people & generating innovative ideas for the 21st century and beyond. I am delighted to work alongside our faculty, staff, students and partners to advance discovery, creativity and innovation. Through our work, we engage students - at UNM, research is education."
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    PTSD research to examine less-studied effects

    Researchers Pilar Sanjuan, a research assistant professor at the UNM Center on Alcoholism, Substance Abuse, & Addictions (CASAA), and Julia Stephen, a professor of Translational Neuroscience at the UNM Mind Research Network (MRN), along with their team, recently received an award for $475,751 from the National Institute of Mental Health to study people with PTSD in an effort to find solutions to the not-so-well studied issues associated with PTSD. Active duty and veteran service members deployed within the past 10 years interested in participating in the study should contact Gleichmann at 505-272-3304 or dgleichmann@mrn.org.

    Tue, 01/14/2020
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    UNM professor honored by book dedication

    In the introduction of the book, his European colleagues wrote, “One of the high points of the conference was the thematic session organized in honor of Prof. Lawrence Guy Straus, whose seminal and extensive work on the Solutrean adaptations in Northern Iberia has strongly influenced all developments in LGM studies across Iberia and beyond. Prof. Straus is now retired, but we hope that he can keep contributing for many years with his invaluable insights on the Late Pleistocene adaptations in Western Europe. He authored the first chapter of this book, and we gratefully dedicate the whole volume to him and his remarkable career.”

    Fri, 12/20/2019
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    Early detection of brain degeneration on the horizon with innovative sensor

    Neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s can be devastating to patients and their families. These diseases are difficult to diagnose before symptoms show, meaning it’s often already too late to reverse the damage to the central nervous system. Early detection is key for management of symptoms and attempts to stall progression of the disease, but current knowledge is limited when it comes to tools that aid in early detection. That knowledge gap is being addressed through cutting-edge research by a team at The University of New Mexico led by Professor Eva Chi of the Department of Biomedical Engineering.

    Fri, 12/20/2019
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    Climate research paints bleak picture for large birds in Mojave Desert

    New research conducted by scientists at The University of New Mexico and the University of California-Berkeley helps illustrate this point as deserts get drier and animals, in particular birds, try to adapt to the growing heat and diminishing resources. The conundrum in this case is the simple fact that desert birds need water to cool off, while deserts continue with accelerated warming and drying threatening any number of desert species including large birds. Wolf notes that this study shows how increased temperatures are becoming an increasingly potent driver of decline in bird populations in North America and shows how tightly linked animals are to their environments.

    Fri, 12/20/2019
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    UNM students engineer assistants of the future

    These computer-driven assistants known as “chatbots” are the focus of Associate Professor Lydia Tapia’s Artificial Intelligence class in the UNM School of Engineering Computer Science Department. As part of the Introduction to Artificial Intelligence (CS427/527) class, students design, create and code their own chatbot. A big part of that process is learning how to gauge intelligence by measuring it against human behavior. The objective is to create chatbots that, when interacting with a human, could be perceived as human-like due to their responses.

    Fri, 12/20/2019
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    State of shock: 200-year-old law about gas mixtures called into question

    This finding could have potential impact on everything that involves mixtures of gases exposed to a shock wave, for example, during combustion in an engine. This is also relevant for conventional and nuclear explosions, supersonic jets, gas-cooled nuclear reactor plants and inertially-confined fusion. The results were published recently in the paper “Dalton's and Amagat's Laws Fail in Gas Mixtures with Shock Propagation” in Science Advances. “Our study found that classical laws used to predict gas mixture properties fail to work in a fairly common and practically important situation,” [Peter] Vorobieff said.

    Mon, 12/16/2019
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