College of Arts & Sciences

The UNM Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology hosts the 8th annual Riley O. Schaeffer Endowed Lectureship on Friday Oct. 23 at 3:15 p.m. at the Science and Mathematics Learning Center Auditorium 102.

Breathing rarified air high in the Andes at an average altitude of 13,000 feet presents certain unique challenges for any living organism. But for small birds such as wrens, it presented an opportunity to adapt to the challenges of the altitude and...

Khaled Kassem, associate professor of mathematics at the University of New Mexico Valencia Campus and an adjunct faculty member at the Central New Mexico Community College will speak about the root causes of the Arab Spring. His lecture on Wednesday,...

A University of New Mexico Ph.D. student is perfecting a new way to forecast stream flow levels with tremendous accuracy.

“They go to sleep several hours after sunset and typically awaken before sunrise.” That’s one of the main conclusions in a new paper published in “Current Biology.” UNM doctoral candidate Gandi Yetish is the lead author in the paper “Natural Sleep and...

A new study examining how 28 of Alaska’s mammal species will respond to future climate warming was released recently by the U.S. Geological Survey.  Information for the study, conducted by several University of New Mexico alumni, was gathered using field...

The Campus Office for Substance Abuse Prevention, or COSAP, at the University of New Mexico is working to make campus a more welcoming place for students recovering from drug or alcohol abuse.

On a wet and chilly September morning, President Barack Obama landed in Dillingham, Alaska, where he was greeted warmly by locals. Among them stood Alannah Hurley, UNM alumna (2009), and current executive director of the United Tribes of Bristol Bay...

A study of spiral galaxies seen edge-on has revealed that the "halos" of cosmic rays and magnetic fields above and below the galaxies' disks are much more common than previously thought.

A grand re-opening for the Meteorite Museum, housed in Northrop Hall in the UNM Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, is set for Thursday, Oct. 15 at 4:30 p.m.