College of Arts & Sciences

Beginning in the 2025-2026 academic year, one significant barrier to receiving career development experience for students in the Department of Economics and the School of Public Administration will be reduced. Thanks to a generous gift from Goldman Sachs...

Students and teachers from all over New Mexico and the country, including San Juan College, will meet for the third annual three-day Neuroscience Workshop hosted by The University of New Mexico. The workshop is set for April 11-13 at UNM and San Juan College...

The University of New Mexico’s Optical Science and Engineering program recently celebrated 40 years of graduate education in optics with two days of lectures, lab tours, student poster presentations and more. The OSE Program is jointly administered by...

The University of New Mexico's Department of Mathematics & Statistics encourages all undergraduate students who have been involved or are interested in mathematics research to participate in the 2024 Southwestern Undergraduate Mathematics Research...

The University of New Mexico is celebrating a major degree milestone this year, as the Bachelor of Arts in Native American Studies is marking 20 years in 2024. To commemorate this, on Tuesday, March 26, from 12 to 2 p.m., the Department of Native...

When it comes to nurturing their young, mother chimpanzees go the extra mile, according to a new study. Using 10 years of observational data on wild chimpanzees, researchers found that while adults often play, and young chimps play a lot, when food gets...

How to be happy  —  It's an age-old question and the subject of a growing field of psychology research. College courses focused on how to be happy have made headlines for their popularity at universities around the country and The University of New...

UNM American Studies Professor and Chair Jennifer Denetdale (Diné) in partnership with the Navajo Nation Museum, has been awarded a $95,000 grant through the Henry Luce Foundation’s Indigenous Knowledge Initiative, sponsored by the First Nations...

UNM’s American Studies Department announces an exciting lecture featuring Professor Phil Deloria titled “The Year the Stars Fell: Toward a Continental History of a Very Few Hours” on Thursday, March 21, 2024, from 6-7:30 p.m. as this year’s Joel M....

The East Coast of the United States, a passive margin formed during the continental breakup of Pangea, holds vital clues to understanding the dynamic processes that shaped our planet. While passive margins are traditionally considered devoid of active...