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Three Lobos, Alex Knigge, Anthony Languit, and Tanisha Medha are among the 2025-2026 Goldwater Scholars who were selected from a pool of 1,350 college sophomores and juniors nominated by 445 academic institutions. Founded in recognition of U.S. Senator...

The University of New Mexico Department of Anthropology will host historian Omer Bartov, who will present Speaking of Genocide: The Holocaust, Israel-Palestine, and the War in Gaza since October 7 on Monday, Sept. 30. The presentation will be at 7 p.m....

The 55th Journal of Anthropological Research (JAR) Distinguished Lecture by Shannon Speed, director of the American Indian Studies Center at the University of California, Los Angeles, will explore the ongoing violence against Native women and ways to...

My Linh Lucero, a second-year student at The University of New Mexico, has been awarded the Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship. The fundamental objective of MMUF is to address the problem of underrepresentation in the academy at the level of college...

Louise Lamphere, Distinguished Professor of Anthropology Emerita at The University of New Mexico, has been named among the Top Influential Anthropologists Today by AcademicInfluence.com. The anthropologists on this list are major contributors to the...

The goal of this job fair is to help current anthropology students — undergraduate and graduate — and recent alumni in archaeology, museum studies, ethnology, and evolutionary anthropology connect with potential local employers.  The Anthropology...

People die. All the time. From many causes, including old age, disease, accidents, murder. But researchers can learn from these deaths. Heather Edgar, forensic anthropologist at The University of New Mexico Office of Medical Investigator (OMI) and...

Carla M. Sinopoli, an archaeologist specializing in South Asia, has joined The University New Mexico as director of the Maxwell Museum of Anthropology and professor of Anthropology.  Sinopoli’s survey and excavation projects in southern India examine...

For centuries dogs and humans have developed close relationships, that in many cases, have solidified each other as family. The close bond between humans and domesticated dogs can be traced back to some of New Mexico’s earliest settlers. But what...

Robert Dello-Russo, director of the UNM Office of Contract Archeology has received the Individual Achievement Award from the State of New Mexico Historic Preservation Division, Department of Cultural Affairs. Dello-Russo was recognized for his...