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For nearly two decades, University of New Mexico Leslie Spier Distinguished Professor of Anthropology Lawrence G. Straus, his colleague Manuel R. Gonzalez Morales from the University of Cantabria and their students have spent part of every summer in Spain, in a cave that once held penned goats. They have been searching for a glimpse of the inhabitants who lived in this part of the world between 40 and 3,000 years ago.

For the next few years hundreds of young people will have their brains scanned at the Mind Research Network on the University of New Mexico’s north campus as researchers try to understand precisely how normal young brains rapidly develop the complex...

The UNM Student Support Services (SSS) program, part of the TRiO program, was recently awarded funding in the amount of $1.23 million from the U.S. Department of Education to support their program from Sept. 1, 2015 through Aug. 31, 2020. The award process to secure the grant was extremely competitive as the number of applicants increased and the number of programs to receive TRiO funds decreased.

The University of New Mexico's University College has created new programs that not only assist freshmen academically in their first year, but to also help them feel empowered by their education. Academic Foundations courses are designed to help...

Monica Kowal has been named associate dean of the newly designated Office of Community Engaged Learning & Research (CELR) in University of New Mexico’s University College. Formerly the Research Service-Learning Program, CELR will serve as an...

Undergraduate students Gabriel Maxson, Edgar Borrego, Eugenia Espinoza and Calvin Burgstahler are four of 800 American undergraduate students from 356 colleges and universities across the U.S. selected to receive the prestigious Benjamin A. Gilman...

The Anderson School of Management is now the new home for the Parker Center for Family Business (PCFB). The UNM Board of Regents on Friday approved bringing the PCFB under the leadership of the business school.

Three faculty members at the University of New Mexico School of Law have received promotions including: Camille Carey to professor, and Yael Zakai Cannon and Alex Ritchie, to associate professors. Carey and Cannon teach in the law school’s pioneering, ...

Utilizing an artful combination that relates the interdependence of plants, animals and humans to the interrelationships of art forms through contemporary media, University of New Mexico College of Fine Arts Professor Mary Tsiongas, was selected to...

The Office of Academic Affairs and Office of HSC Academic Affairs recently announced the promotion of seven University of New Mexico faculty to the rank of Distinguished Professor. The 2014-15 list includes: Bill Gilbert, Hua Guo, Zachary Sharp, Arthur...