UNM Short Film Drifteen Wins Best Cinematography at the LGBTQ+ Los Angeles Film Festival
Drifteen is a short film produced, shot, and cut by University of New Mexico students in the Film & Digital Arts (FDA) Department and was directed by Matthew McDuffie, Professor […]
Local Startup Faena Releases Pre-Alpha Videogame Demo and is Working with Charter School Students to Test Game
Isabel Last is the CEO and Founder of Faena, an immersive, Spanish-learning video game. A pre-alpha demo of the game was released last week and is currently available on their […]
Board Members @ UNM Rainforest Innovations – Sandra Begay
UNM Rainforest Innovations is supported and guided by the diverse, entrepreneurial, and innovative members of the Board of Directors. Members of the Board are researchers, inventors, academics, administrators, business executives, […]
Tribal Liaison Zachariah Ben’s Bidii Baby Foods Awarded Heart of the Land Award for Outstanding Leadership in Farming and Ranching
On January 26, Bidii Baby Foods, LLC, an organic farm and agricultural cooperative, was awarded the Heart of the Land Award for Outstanding Leadership in Farming and Ranching as part […]
Student Interns @ UNM Rainforest Innovations – Nicole Nimeh
UNM Rainforest Innovations, the technology-transfer and economic development organization for the University of New Mexico (UNM), has a student internship program that teaches UNM students about university technology transfer and […]
Local Startup Osazda Energy Awarded $200,000 Grant by U.S. Department of Energy
Osazda Energy, a local startup commercializing solar cell technology developed jointly at the University of New Mexico and the Air Force Research Laboratory-New Mexico, has been awarded a $200,000 grant […]
Local Startups Circular Genomics and MNT SmartSolutions Awarded $25,000 New Mexico Science and Technology Startup Grants
Local startups Circular Genomics and MNT SmartSolutions have been awarded $25,000 grants according to the New Mexico Economic Development Department’s Office of Science and Technology. Only ten companies were selected […]
FDA Granted Orphan Drug Designation to Linnaeus Therapeutics’ LNS8801
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted Linnaeus Therapeutics’ LNS8801 an orphan drug designation for the treatment of patients with metastatic cutaneous melanoma. The FDA’s Office of Orphan […]
Bustling Bioscience Community in New Mexico Drawing National Attention
Over the past 10 years, the New Mexico bioscience community has spun off nearly 150 startup companies. Thanks in part to the innovative research taking place at the state’s research […]
UNM Inventor Dr. Sakineh Chabi Receives 2023 AFOSR Young Investigator Award
Dr. Sakineh Chabi is the recipient of the 2023 Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) Young Investigator Research Program (YIP) award. Honorees receive three-year grants of up to $450,000 […]