College of Arts & Sciences

UNM Associate Professor Carmen Nocentelli was recently selected as the winner of three highly-coveted fellowships for 2016-2017. She has elected to spend the year as a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow at the Folger Shakespeare Library, the ...

It’s been about a year since the Chicana & Chicano Studies (CCS) program became an official department at The University of New Mexico. But, in that short amount of time, the unit has undertaken its first self-study and external review, shedding light on some impressive gains.

More than a dozen high school students from around the world visited The University of New Mexico campus recently. The trip was the result of a new partnership between UNM’s Africana Studies program and United World College-USA (UWC-USA), a two-year residential school for international teenagers.

One of education’s biggest challenges is keeping up with technology to ensure that students are familiar with the latest technological advances and enabling them to be successful during their academic careers and beyond. This is especially true in the...

A Ph.D. graduate from The University of New Mexico Department of Sociology has been awarded a major prize for his dissertation by the University’s Office of Graduate Studies.

When Yemane Asmerom came to The University of New Mexico more than 20 years ago, he had a dream to build a state-of-the-art laboratory that would conduct world class research second to none. With the help of many...

The UNM Biology Department hosts its 25th annual Research Day and Open House on Thursday, March 31 and Friday, April 1. The annual event is a showcase of student research celebrating discovery and education in the biological sciences. On Thursday, March...

University of New Mexico Ph.D. student Michelle Martin has always had a rich love of history. She studied the subject for both her undergraduate and graduate degrees and is now continuing her academic work at UNM. But, the road she took to becoming a Lobo was far from typical and has opened doors she never imagined.

Celebrate the opening of “Earth, Fire and Life: Six Thousand Years of Chinese Ceramics and Chinese American New Mexicans” on Friday, April 8, at 6 p.m. in a free event open to all. 

Getting middle and high school students excited and involved in science isn’t always the easiest thing to do. But, for The University of New Mexico Department of Physics & Astronomy, being able to break out some big ‘toys’ is something that usually gets...