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This month in publications...
Posted: Oct 15, 2024 - 12:00pm
Here are some of the publications from June-September that are authored by UNM Biology's faculty, staff, and students: Anderson, M. D., Taylor, D. L., Olson, K., & Ruess, R. W. (2024). Composition of soil...read more
Dr. Mubarak Syed receives McKnight Scholar Award
Posted: Aug 01, 2024 - 12:00pm
Dr. Mubarak Hussain Syed, an assistant professor of Biology at The University of New Mexico, is one of 10 neuroscientists selected by The McKnight Endowment Fund for Neuroscience board of directors to receive the 2024 McKnight Scholar Award. The McK...read more
Dr. Thomas Turner appointed Regent's Professor of College
Posted: Jun 14, 2024 - 12:00pm
Dr. Thomas Turner of the Department of Biology was appointed one as of the Regent's Professors of 2025-2027 in the College of Arts and Sciences. Regents’ Professor is a special title bestowed on selected full professors who, in the judgm...read more
This semester in publications...
Posted: Jun 04, 2024 - 11:00am
Here are some of the publications from November-May that are authored by UNM Biology's faculty, staff, and students: Ayars J, H. Anu Kramer, Gavin M. Jones. 2023. The 2020 to 2021 California megafires and their impacts on wildlife habitat. PNAS, 120...read more
Museum of Southwestern Biology team uncovers the giant hummingbird’s extreme long-distance migration
Posted: May 15, 2024 - 12:00pm
A team of researchers led by Dr. Christopher Witt, Curator of the Division of Birds at UNM’s Museum of Southwestern Biology, have uncovered the giant hummingbird’s extreme long-distance migration for the first time. Their eight-year...read more
Ph.D. student David Tan leads study on effect of blue light on bird-building collisions
Posted: Apr 16, 2024 - 12:00pm
Ph.D. student David Tan lead a study that was recently published in Conservation Biology: Disentangling the biotic and abiotic drivers of bird–building collisions in a tropical Asian city with ecological niche modeling. David is an ...read more
Dr. Mubarak Syed and team receives DoD grant to build neuromorphic machines
Posted: Apr 04, 2024 - 12:00pm
Principal Investigator Mubarak Syed will receive a $600,000 grant from the Department of Defense (DoD), a grant which is part of $17.6 million in grants the DoD is awarding to 27 academic teams under the Defense Established Program to Stimulate...read more
Dr. Diana Northup research featured in PBS "Untold Earth" episode
Posted: Apr 02, 2024 - 12:00pm
The microbial research conducted in Carlsbad Caverns by Dr. Diana Northup's research group was featured in a recent episode of PBS's "Untold Earth". The episode is titled, "This Upside Down Cave Is a Microscopic Warzone", and is described as fo...read more
Dr. Irene Salinas featured in "Women in Immunology" at Nature Immunology
Posted: Mar 05, 2024 - 12:00pm
Dr. Irene Salinas, UNM Biology professor, was chosen as one of the Women in Immunology featured in this month's issue of Nature Immunology. The journal has been inviting women immunologists from around the globe every Women's History Month to share ...read more
Dr. David Hanson and team send tomatoes to space in NASA collaboration
Posted: Jan 31, 2024 - 12:00pm
New Mexico researchers and collaborating institutions are known to send some unique and unusual plants and vegetables into space – take for instance the green chile launch of 2019 – and this week, UNM Biology Professor David Hanson, his ...read more
