Socioemotional selectivity theory proposes that people shift their social behavior from a focus on forming new friends in youth to maintaining a smaller network of close, fulfilling relationships in old age. “The proposal is that this shift happens because of our...
The UNM Health Sciences Center has a new leader — Douglas Ziedonis, MD, MPH, a psychiatrist who most recently served as associate vice chancellor for Health Sciences at the University of California, San Diego. The UNM Health Sciences Center’s mission encompasses...
UNM’s official seal for decades, which featured a sword-carrying Spanish conquistador and a rifle-toting frontiersman, has been scrapped and replaced by a simple graphic design. The Board of Regents chose the new design on a 3-1 vote, ending a controversy that has...
Chemists have puzzled for the past 30 years over the strange behavior of ozone molecules in the Earth’s atmosphere. Ozone (O3), a gas known for its ability to absorb the sun’s potentially harmful ultraviolet rays in the stratosphere, performs that function when it...
The Tamarind Institute at UNM is having an important birthday, which it celebrated with a curated selection of lithographs spanning six decades of collaborative printmaking that was revealed online each month through February and with a limited-edition pandemic-themed...