College of Arts & Sciences

The road to graduation is not always a straight one. Forty two years after first enrolling at the University of New Mexico, Jean Ellen Whatley finally received her bachelor’s degree in journalism this spring. The comeback kid had started and stopped her...

University of New Mexico Associate Professor and Associate Chair of History A. K. Sandoval-Strausz will spend the 2015-16 academic year at Princeton University as a Distinguished Fellow in the Princeton-Mellon Initiative in Architecture, Urbanism, and...

University of New Mexico’s University College (UC) joined forces with the Anderson School of Management and the Department of Communication and Journalism to offer Business Boot Camp, an eight-week course that connects entrepreneurial minded students ...

Samuel Truett, Associate Professor of History, has been selected as a 2015-16 Fellow at the Institut d’Études Avancées (Institute for Advanced Study) in Nantes, France. 

It’s been almost a week since a 7.8 magnitude struck Nepal, and the death toll so far has climbed above 5,500 people across about 30 mountainous districts. More than 100 aftershocks, a few registering above 6.4, have worsened the destruction and posed...

Yang Qin, an assistant professor in the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology at the University of New Mexico, has received a five-year, $525,000 National Science Foundation (NSF) Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award for research...

The University of New Mexico Communication & Journalism Department recently hosted the Joe and Steve Mercer Memorial Scholarship Speech Tournament, which is open to all UNM students.  Tournament Director Judith Hendry said, "Although we only had...

Robert Jefferson, director of UNM’s Africana Studies Program, announced today that the Pre-College Math and Science Program (PCMSP) is moving from Africana Studies to African American Student Services effective July 1.

A new reservoir of hot, partially molten rock located beneath the Yellowstone supervolcano has been imaged for the first time giving scientists a new perspective of the volcanic plumbing system under the supervolcano.

The University of New Mexico’s newest department – Chicana/ Chicano Studies – hosts an open house Friday, April 24 from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. in celebration of becoming departmentalized. The event, a celebration of becoming departmentalized is 11-2 p.m. ...