College of Arts & Sciences

Visualize the following: The Earth’s climate swings between cold glacial and warm interglacial periods; the last glacial interval was about 20,000 years ago; sea level was about 126 meters (413 feet) below modern sea level at that time; and the Holocene,...

Community engagement takes on many forms in higher education. It is typically defined as a foundational role of a public research university to utilize its knowledge and resources in a beneficial way to demonstrate collaboration between higher education...

A new paper recently released in Geology by researchers Jacob Mulder, Karl Karlstrom, and other Australian colleagues provides a new dataset that may resolve the more than three decades-long debate about which continents were adjacent to southwestern USA...

The Data Bank at The University of New Mexico's Bureau of Business and Economic Research (UNMBBER) hosts its 20th Annual Data Users Conference on Thursday, Nov. 15 at the CNM Workforce Training Center. The Annual Data Users Conference is New Mexico’s...

Carla M. Sinopoli, an archaeologist specializing in South Asia, has joined The University New Mexico as director of the Maxwell Museum of Anthropology and professor of Anthropology.  Sinopoli’s survey and excavation projects in southern India examine...

A recently published book honors the work and life of beloved UNM History Professor Ferenc Morton Szasz.  “Ferenc Morton Szasz: A celebration and selected writings” was edited by Mark T. Banker, a former student of Szasz’s who graduated from UNM with...

The Society of Physics Students (SPS), supported by The University of New Mexico’s Physics and Astronomy Department, attended the American Physical Society’s Four Corners Section meeting held in Salt Lake City, Utah recently. This year, approximately 30...

To inspire and engage potential scientists and engineers, The University of New Mexico Department of Physics and Astronomy hosts its semi-annual Physics Demo Night: Astonishing Feats of Physics on Wednesday, Oct. 24 in Regener Hall Auditorium, room 103...

Beginning next fall, courses at The University of New Mexico will begin showing new Common Course Numbering (CCN) in compliance with the State of New Mexico’s Higher Education Department (HED) to standardize common courses among the state’s higher...

The University of New Mexico celebrated another construction milestone when officials hoisted a ceremonial beam to commemorate the completion of structural framing of the new Physics, Astronomy and Interdisciplinary Science (PAÍS) building. Presented by...