College of Arts & Sciences

Timothy Graham, professor of history at The University of New Mexico, has been awarded the 2016 Award for Excellence in Teaching by the Medieval Academy of America Committee on Centers and Regional Associations (CARA).

Communication & Journalism Professor of Practice Mike Marcotte and Instructor Carolyn Flynn are co-teaching C&J 393 this semester. The elective course is an exploration of how student multimedia writers might combine their skill and knowledge of a...

Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS) in the United States has long been estimated at no more than three children per 1,000. A new study published in the journal of Drug and Alcohol Dependence reports that the prevalence of fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS) is between...

The New Mexico Network for Women in Science in Engineering (NMNWSE) recently honored Laura Crossey, professor and chair of the Department of Earth & Planetary Sciences at the University of New Mexico, with the Ninth Annual IMPACT! Award. The award is...

The Evolutionary Anthropology Section of the American Anthropological Association awarded UNM Assistant Professor of Anthropology Siobhán Mattison a New Investigator Award for her presentation at the recent conference of the American Anthropological...

As part of the Ancestors Lecture series, the University of New Mexico Maxwell Museum presents, “The Red Lady of El Mirón Cave”: 19,000 year-old Magdalenian Burial in Northern Spain with speaker Lawrence Guy Straus, UNM Distinguished Professor of ...

For months now, weather forecasters have been talking about a Godzilla El Niño. Even though most New Mexicans have enjoyed a fairly mild fall, make no mistake, an El Niño winter is here. The question now becomes, how much moisture will it generate over...

Jessica Goodkind, associate professor of Sociology at the University of New Mexico, specializes in change. Her nine credit hour, two semester course begins each fall teaching undergraduate students what refugees are, and what kind of world conditions...

University of New Mexico Emeritus Professor of English Gary Scharnhorst authored, Mark Twain on Potholes and Politics: Letters to the Editor, which has been selected for inclusion on Choice magazine’s Outstanding Academic Titles list, scheduled to appear...

A new book written by The University of New Mexico Department of Sociology chair, Richard Wood, takes an in depth look at the work being done to overcome racial inequality in the United States and to figure out how we, as a society, work across the racial divides we’ve inherited.