College of Arts & Sciences

From James Fenimore Cooper to Gary Cooper, stories set in the American West have served as vehicles for topical commentary. More than any other pioneer of the genre, Owen Wister turned the Western into a form of social and political critique, touching on such issues as race, the environment, women’s rights and immigration.

High in the Atacama Desert, around 10,000 feet, anyone with a computer and Google Earth can look at the fields around Turi, Chile and see small...

The UNM Biology Department hosts its 24th Annual Research Day and Open House this Thursday and Friday, March 26-27. The annual event is a showcase of student research celebrating discovery and education in the biological sciences.

Community members gather to share poems they love for the My Favorite Poem Project, which is back at the University of New Mexico, Thursday, April 2 beginning at 6 p.m. in Zimmerman Library's Willard Reading Room in the historic west wing. 

Fifty thousand gallons of organic sludge, a fishing pole, a bowling ball, a mannequin, shopping carts, three radios, two chairs and a host of other items are typically found in the Duck Pond during its routine Spring Break cleaning every other...

John L. Kessell, Professor Emeritus of History at the University of New Mexico, is the winner of the 2013 Weber-Clements Prize for Best Non-Fiction Book on Southwestern America, for his volume Miera y Pacheco: A Renaissance Spaniard in Eighteenth-Century...

Built by people with values steeped in faith, Martineztown began as a getaway in the 1800s, only later to become a hidden suburb in an ever-sprawling Albuquerque cityscape.  San Ignacio and Second Presbyterian Church are two historical congregations that...

When Faculty Senate met last month to vote to designate Chicana and Chicano Studies a department, more than 100 people congregated in the hallway waiting anxiously to hear the result of the vote. When it was approved, the crowd erupted in jubilation. No...

It may be difficult to imagine a time before university campuses were as diverse as they are today, but the time when they were the sole preserves of men is still well within living memory. Dr. Louise Lamphere, professor emerita at the University of New...

As one of the highest cost-per-square-foot buildings at the University of New Mexico, the Center for High Tech Materials (CHTM) associate director, Majeed Hayat, felt it was necessary to figure out ways to reduce the total energy consumption in the...