College of Arts & Sciences

Russell J. and Dorothy S. Bilinski's life objective was to be self-sufficient and intellectually challenged. They firmly believed that people should be Independent, ambitious, and, most importantly, accountable. Russell worked as a researcher,...

An international group of collaborators including scientists from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory and The University of New Mexico have discovered a new, temperate sub-Neptune sized exoplanet with a 24-day orbital period orbiting a nearby M dwarf star....

To better understand the future of Earth’s changing ecosystems, a team from The University of New Mexico and colleagues from around the United States are part of a network of scientists that have been generating careful, reliable science for 40...

Thatcher Rogers, UNM Ph.D. student in Archaeology, will receive the Friends of Coronado Historic Site scholarship this spring, a local scholarship that funds research along the Middle Rio Grande. Thatcher also received an NSF (National Science...

UNM’s Jessica Feezell and Brittany Ortiz, co-authors of “‘I Saw It on Facebook’” were recently chosen as winners of the 2019 Kaid-Sanders Best Political Communication Article of the Year Award as part of the annual International Communication...

In a new article, Catherine Rhodes, a linguistic and semiotic anthropologist and assistant professor in the Ethnology program in the Department of Anthropology at The University of New Mexico, discussed how she recently taught linguistic anthropological...

Researchers at The University of New Mexico examined the effects of consuming cannabis on nausea symptoms from five minutes to one-hour post-cannabis consumption and showed that using Cannabis results in an average symptom improvement of nearly 4 points...

University of New Mexico Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs James Holloway announced today the appointment of Dr. Arash Mafi as interim dean of UNM’s College of Arts and Sciences. Mafi takes over for Mark Peceny, who has served as...

In April 2020, as everyone struggled to adjust to the unprecedented changes brought about by the COVID pandemic, the American Planning Association New Mexico Chapter (APA-NM) began to discuss ways to help as an organization...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) recently awarded The University of New Mexico a three-year, $500,000 grant to develop software that utilizes Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) to capture and process data from astronomical telescopes. GPUs render the...