College of Arts & Sciences

Agriculture consumes about 80 percent of all U.S. water. Making fertilizers uses 1 to 2 percent of all the world’s energy each year. A new program hopes to develop better crops — super plants that are drought-resistant, use less fertilizer and remove more carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.

The University of New Mexico is part of a $1 million, multi-university study designed to examine the effect Indigenous-language immersion schools have on Native American student success, both in the classroom and beyond.

Researchers from The University of New Mexico will host a presentation on the prescription opioid epidemic and New Mexico’s medical cannabis program on Friday, March 3 at 9 a.m. in room 103 at the Education Building. UNM researchers Jacob Vigil and Sara...

The University of New Mexico Department of Chemistry & Chemical Biology presents the Milton Kahn Annual Lectureship on Friday, March 3 at 4 p.m. The talk features Todd Martinez, a David Mulvane Ehrsam and Edward Curtis Franklin Professor of Chemistry at Stanford University.

The University of New Mexico’s Lobo Reading Experience, in partnership with Celebration of Student Writing in the Department of English, presents The Story of Each of Us, Defines all of Us, by Daisy Hernández, author of “A Cup of Water Under My...

Nearly two decades ago, researchers at The University of New Mexico took interest in a project that took them to the lush jungles of southwestern Uganda. Not far from the borders of the Congo, these desert-dwelling Anthropologists established...

University of New Mexico Associate Provost Virginia Scharff announced today the appointment of Professor A. Gabriel Meléndez as director of the Center for Regional Studies effective March 1, 2017.  “I am very pleased to have Gabriel join UNM’s...

It’s Valentine’s Day and you’re sitting there scrolling through your various social media feeds pondering what love is. Yes, it’s a crazy thing we, humans, call love, and often times, it’s hard to put into words in an attempt to describe the feeling. So...

UNM graduate student Brian Hendrickson is leading the charge on revamping how higher education recruits, teaches and retains students. The Rhetoric and Writing doctoral candidate says the responsibility isn’t just on institutions – it is also on...

The Center for the Southwest at The University of New Mexico announces the 2017 C. Ruth and Calvin P. Horn Lecture in Western History and Culture.