This year, the ballot will feature GO Bond C for Higher Education to help provide New Mexico’s colleges, universities, and specialty schools with the ability to ensure students have the tools and resources to be successful.
In new research, authored by University of New Mexico graduate student Tony Gargano and scientists from UNM's Center for Stable Isotopes, in collaboration with scientists from NASA’s Johnson Space Center, published today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) titled Chlorine isotope composition and halogen contents of Apollo-return samples, researchers focused on chemical analyses of halogens, or the highly reactive elements F, Cl, Br, and I (fluorine, chlorine, bromine, and iodine) and found that lunar materials are exceptionally depleted in these elements, with unusually high amounts of the heavy form (stable isotope) of chlorine, which they explain as a result from the Moon-forming Giant Impact.
A group of researchers from The University of New Mexico and Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) have received funding to study the shells of desert tortoises to identify if and how radioactive elements are incorporated into their tissues.
Establishing a new tradition of collaboration and research excellence, the Virtual SynCell2020 Symposium was held online in late-May with 715 registered virtual attendees.
In an excavation that started in 1991, a group of archaeologists discovered the remains of at least 15 Neandertals in the Amud Cave, among them the fossilized foot bones of the woman now known to scientists as Amud 9.
Latino Americans are more likely than non-Hispanic whites to contract COVID-19 and to face disproportionately high mortality rates when they contract the virus – according to previously documented research done by a team including UNM Political Science Professor Gabe Sanchez.
Researchers from The University of New Mexico and a German team have written a collaborative paper, Laser cooling of ytterbium-doped silica glass, that appears in Communications Physics, an open-access journal from Nature Research.
The University of New Mexico’s Gold Lab, headed by assistant professor Brian Gold in the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, is using computational modeling to learn about HIV.
The University of New Mexico’s Center for Quantum Information and Control (CQuIC) is part of the CU-led collaboration titled Quantum Systems through Entangled Science and Engineering or Q-SEnSE.
COSMIAC has recently been awarded a $19 million award to conduct communications, positioning, navigation and timing projects, which have been deemed a priority to the U.S. Space Force and other military and governmental researchers.
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