The ARID Institute awarded five $5,000 research grants to support students carrying out resilience-related interdisciplinary and community engaged research. The applicant pool was very strong, with ma…

The 2024 Pitch Deck Competition was held the evening of December 5, 2024, and was co-hosted by UNM Rainforest Innovations and the UNM Innovation Academy. ARID sponsored a special $2,000 prize for a pi…

The Higher Education Climate Leadership Summit was hosted by Second Nature in Washington, DC on February 2-4, 2025. Over 380 higher education professionals attended to discuss how colleges and un…

On March 13, 2025, the ARID Institute hosted Captain Jonathan C. Duffy (U.S. Navy, retired) to present on, "Planning for an Uncertain Environment: applying the Naval Planning Process to Climate Change…

On April 24, 2025, over 90 organizations, vendors, UNM centers and departments, and student groups participated in the annual UNM Sustainabiltiy Expo. The ARID Institute had a table and supported the …

Each semester, ARID hosts a panel of professionals in resilience-related jobs to talk to students about their career journey, their advice to students, and to share information about any student oppor…

Each semester, the ARID Institute holds a community conversation at a local brewery around a resilience topic. This semester, we were joined by Dr. Heidi Rogers, College of Nursing, and Dr. Claudia Pr…

On August 1, ARID co-sponsored a film screening of Requiem for a River at the UNM Law School. The film by Mary Patierno tells the story of the Rio Grande in New Mexico and the river communities buildi…