College of Arts & Sciences

Deep inside the basement of Northrop Hall, in The University of New Mexico’s Department of Earth and Planetary Science, sits a high-tech center attracting scientists to UNM from all across the state. The instruments housed there are helping researchers answer questions and gain knowledge about structures invisible to the naked eye.

The UNM Departments of American Studies, English, History and Linguistics, along with 28 other colleges and universities have been chosen by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) to rethink and transform the training and education for the “next...

Harvard Professor Gary Urton is presenting the XLII Journal of Anthropological Research (JAR) Distinguished Lecture, “Writing the History of an ancient civilization without writing,” on Thursday, Sept. 29 at 7:30 p.m. in the UNM Anthropology Lecture...

On Thursday, Sept. 29, the UNM Department of English hosts distinguished writer Rigoberto González as the featured speaker for the seventh annual Rudolfo and Patricia Anaya Lecture on the Literature of the Southwest. González will speak at 6:30 p.m. in...

Called the ‘Dean of Chicano writers’, University of New Mexico Professor Emeritus and author Rudolfo Anaya is being honored by President Obama as one of 12 recipients of the 2015 National Humanities Medal.

The University of New Mexico Department of American Studies presents a public talk with Barni Axmed Qaasim on Sept. 30 at 1 p.m. in Education Building, Room 103.

The idea of “out of the classroom and into the community” is the focus of the re-launching of KUNM's University Showcase—with a major segment produced by KUNM Reporter Megan Kamerick. This Friday, Sept. 16 at 8 a.m. on University Showcase, Kamerick...

Professor Emeritus John Kessell will give a lecture on Southwestern mapmaking on Friday, Sept. 9 in the UNM History Department Commons Room—1104 Mesa Vista Hall—from 2:30-4 p.m.  

The New Mexico Historical Review Staff hosts a free day-long symposium celebrating nine decades of the publication on Saturday, Sept. 10 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the UNM Student Union Building In 90 volumes, the NMHR has published over 37,000 pages,...

Mariah Austin, a student from the University of New Mexico, has been selected by the American Chemical Society as part of an elite group of students spending the summer abroad participating in the International Research Experiences for Undergraduates (IREU) Program. She is spending the summer at Freidrich Schiller University in Jena, Germany.