College of Arts & Sciences

Understanding the different ways organisms can adapt to environmental temperatures is central to understanding how they will respond to climate change. In a study released yesterday in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), scientists...

The National Academy of Inventors (NAI) announced today that it has chosen a cohort of inventors from around the world for election as 2015 NAI Fellows. UNM Distinguished Professors Steven R. J. Brueck and C. Jeffrey Brinker were among 168 distinguished...

The Office of Academic Affairs has announced the appointment of William Stanley as director of the Latin American Iberian Institute (LAII). Executive Vice President and Provost Chaouki Abdallah said, “Bill Stanley has a long history at the University...

A major study linking writing to undergraduate learning and development shows that three features of writing assignments—an interactive writing process, a meaning-making writing task and clear writing expectations—are each positively associated with ...

The University of New Mexico Chapter of Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Society, has received the “Chapter of Excellence” award at the international honor society’s annual meeting in Kansas City, Mo.

Tiffany N. Florvil, an assistant professor in the University of New Mexico’s Department of History, has been awarded the 2015 Dr. Richard M. Hunt Fellowship for the Study of German Politics, Society, and Culture.

Last week’s traditional UNM Hanging of the Greens celebration served as a memorial for students from the UNM TRiO Student Support Services (SSS) program as they honored one of their recent graduates. Hanging of the Greens has been a tradition the ...

The University of New Mexico has enjoyed a long history of mutually beneficial collaborations with the Universidad de Concepción (UdeC), one of the top three universities for Engineering and Physics in Chile. UNM faculty members are travelling to Chile...

Two University of New Mexico professors, who are also husband and wife, will travel to the other side of the world this summer to teach and do research at the University of Tasmania (UTAS). One half of this duo is Tema Milstein, a UNM Presidential...

Who decides what societies remember? Who writes the songs that are passed down from generation to generation? What is the meaning of monuments and how does that meaning develop and change over time? And how does a past event, once overlooked, become...