College of Arts & Sciences

A group of Political Science students at The University of New Mexico had the chance to learn about a historic U.S. Supreme Court case from one of the main people involved in the worldwide scandal. During the 2024 spring semester in UNM’s Constitutional...

Distinguished Professor of Anthropology Emeritus Steven Feld at The University of New Mexico has been elected as a British Academy Fellowship. He was among the 86 leading scholars from the humanities and social sciences elected from the United Kingdom and the...

Warning labels on social media: That’s what the United States Surgeon General called for last month saying the apps are a big contributor to the mental health crisis among younger people.  

If this year’s Undergraduate Research Opportunity Conference (UROC) at The University of New Mexico is any indication, more first-year students are jumping into research. Mentors hope that through participating in research opportunities at UNM, first-year students will eventually find their lifelong research passions.

Fourteen faculty members at the University of New Mexico have been selected for the 2024 Women in STEM Awards.  The 11 funded projects include a study of carbon storage in soils along the middle Rio Grande floodplain, an investigation into rural New...

The Cretaceous period ended with a bang 66 million years ago when an asteroid more than six miles across collided with the Earth off of the Yucatan Peninsula. The resulting prodigious environmental change to land, sea, and atmospheric habitats ultimately...

University of New Mexico Department of Physics and Astronomy Graduate student Josef Sorenson was selected recently to receive the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science Graduate Student Research (SCGSR) award to pursue his Ph.D. next year at...

Research by a University of New Mexico professor that traced Catholic priests who abused and molested Native American children and teenagers was recently cited in an article in the Washington Post. Investigative reporters at the Post used the research...

Speech pathologists coming from The University of New Mexico are going to be able to help even more patients now, thanks to a new offering from UNM Speech & Hearing Sciences. The Department’s Master of Science in Speech-Language Pathology now offers a...

Although the congressional floor in Washington D.C. may appear tumultuous today, the up-and-coming future leaders and politicians are demonstrating a different perspective to get things done. This is exactly what transpired at the nation’s first-ever...