College of Arts & Sciences

The Center for the Southwest announces the 2016 C. Ruth and Calvin P. Horn Lecture in Western History and Culture. Dr. John Mack Faragher, Howard R. Lamar Professor of History and American Studies at Yale University, will present the 2016 Horn Lecture,...

Shaggy, heavy-shouldered bison have grazed the wide open spaces of the American Southwest for thousands of years. They made a tempting target for the hunters who walked the empty landscape between 9,000 and 13,000 years ago. The bison were attracted to a...

In his new book, “The Sorrows of Young Alfonso,” due out in April, University of New Mexico Professor Emeritus Rudolfo Anaya reflects on the truths and mysteries of the human condition.

It is considered by many to be one of the biggest scientific discoveries of the past century. For the first time an international group of researchers, including a University of New Mexico alumnus, have detected the existence of gravitational waves, ripples in the fabric of spacetime, confirming a portion of Albert Einstein’s 1915 general theory of relativity.

University of New Mexico Leslie Spier Distinguished Professor of Anthropology Lawrence Guy Straus found his life’s work as a young boy allowed into the study of his long-deceased French grandfather where he alone could look in the cabinet drawers, at the...

Inside an aged, unassuming laboratory in The University of New Mexico’s Maxwell Museum of Anthropology, a group of scientists look to the dead for answers. UNM’s Laboratory of Human Osteology is one of the largest in the country, according to Curator...

It’s a relatively new focus in the science world, but for University of New Mexico Assistant Professor Ramesh Giri, ‘sustainable chemistry’ has proven to be a very worthwhile area of research.

It started with a vision – a vision to build a world class research-focused laboratory to support stable isotope research while providing hands on graduate and undergraduate instruction that also encourages a cross-disciplinary exchange of ideas and...

Join Sigma Xi for the Science and Society Distinguished Public Talk on Thursday, March 10 at 5:30 p.m. in the UNM Conference Center Auditorium as they present ‘The Mathematics of Crime.’

The University of New Mexico was named as one of the best deals on colleges for Native American Studies. The list, which included 20 colleges, placed UNM at No. 15. UNM’s Native American Studies is an academic program committed to Indigenous research...