College of Arts & Sciences

The Chicana and Chicano Studies department at The University of New Mexico has organized a visit by United States Poet Laureate Juan Felipe Herrera.

University of New Mexico Associate Professor of Anthropology, and curator of Human Osteology at the Maxwell Museum of Anthropology Heather Edgar has been appointed to the Native American Graves Protection and Reparation Act (NAGPRA) Review Committee ...

When administrators, faculty and staff from the University of New Mexico decided to provide doctoral education programs for faculty members from Ecuador, everyone knew it would require creativity and conviction. It also requires those same traits – and...

More and more as climate change increases temperatures globally and alters regional rainfall, scientists are finding that the activity and foraging behaviors of animals must also change in order to adapt to the ever-changing environmental conditions.

From cancer to coffee, the recpients of the 2015 Presidential Award of Distinction have portfolios of research accomplishments that separate the scientists from many others in their fields. Both, C. Jeffrey Brinker amd Patricia Crown, have dedicated...

UNM faculty members Shiv Desai, Todd Ruecker and Vanessa Svihla have been named prestigious National Academy of Education (NAEd) / Spencer Postdoctoral Fellows due to their research and dedication to the field of education. The National Academy of...

UNM Associate Professor of History A. K. Sandoval-Strausz has won three scholarly prizes for his article “Latino Landscapes: Postwar Cities and the Transnational Origins of a New Urban America,” which was published last December in the Journal of...

Graduate students from the University of New Mexico’s Department of Geography & Environmental Studies (GES) took home several awards at the annual conference of the Southwest Division of the Association of American Geographers (SWAAG), held in San Antonio in the first week of November.

It’s rare that a commercial magazine reprints an academic paper, but the British magazine Gym Class is reprinting an article, “’That’s Part of What We Do’ : The Performative Power of Vogue’s Anna Wintour” that UNM assistant professor of Communication &...

A new report published in “Science” explores the relationship between Helminth infection and birth rates in women from the Tsimane tribal community. The Tsimane are foragers-horticulturalists living in the Amazon lowland forests in Bolivia. The ...