College of Arts & Sciences

With a goal of addressing problems and creating meaningful change within our communities, The University of New Mexico today launched its Grand Challenges Initiative creating opportunities that require researchers to work together across disciplinary...

Hurricanes, poetry, civil war and Harry Potter. At first glance, none of these subjects appear related. In truth, they are all examples of topics covered at the Southwest Division of the American Association of Geographers (SWAAG) regional conference,...

The University of New Mexico Maxwell Museum of Anthropology presents the 10thAnnual Navajo Rug Auction on Saturday, Nov. 17 at 1 p.m. at the Prairie Star Restaurant in Bernalillo. Viewing will begin at 11 a.m. The event is free and open to all. More...

New research on Spanish in New Mexico reveals that “bilinguals don’t mix up their languages, they mix and match.” Salón Ortega at the NHCC was filled to capacity recently to celebrate bilingualism in New Mexico and launch a new book, Bilingualism in the...

The University of New Mexico’s Nancy López was recently elected as the vice president of Sociologists for Women in Society, serving a two-year term from 2019 through 2021. The Sociologists for Women in Society (SWS) is an international organization of...

In conjunction with the national Geography Awareness Week, Nov. 12-17 and GIS Day, Nov. 14, The University of New Mexico’s Earth Data Analysis Center (EDAC), Student Association of Geography and Environmental Studies (SAGES), Department of Geography and...

The first high quality ancient DNA data from Central and South America—49 individuals some as old as 11,000 years—has revealed a major and previously unknown exchanges between populations. Unprecedented details about the ancestry of the people of...

Voters in New Mexico decisively backed General Obligation Bonds B and D – affirming their support of higher education and libraries.  Bond B allocates $4 million each for higher education libraries, public libraries and public-school libraries – every...

The subject of geography typically brings to mind things like the terrain of the earth or the composition of mountains, not… beer. Merging topographical exploration with the study of ales and brews, students in The World of Beer class at The University...

With Election Day right around the corner, campaigns are doing last minute pushes for votes and fundraising – but what effect will that money have on the election outcome?  Join UNM University Libraries for a discussion about the influence of money on...