College of Arts & Sciences

Scientists at the University of New Mexico are conducting research at the edge of the Earth compiling volcanic data as part of the Deep Carbon Observatory (DCO) Deep Carbon Degassing (DECADE) research activity. The research is part of a 10-year...

A new series, “Gunslingers,” premiered recently on the American Heroes Channel. The six-part series features the stories of Wyatt Earp, Billy the Kid, Jesse James, Wild Bill Hickok, John Wesley Hardin and Tom Horn. The series includes both striking ...

Sports related concussions are a major concern that has drawn national attention over the past several years. The University of New Mexico has engaged in a progressive research program examining concussions in their athletes...

Richard L. Wood, chair, University of New Mexico Department of Sociology, announced the July 16 death of Tomás Atencio, a sociology alumnus who also served many years as a lecturer in the department. Atencio was 81. “Tomás Atencio was deeply dedicated ...

The University of New Mexico Alumni Association hosts a Lobo Living Room event, “Geronimo, the Chiricahua Warrior,” with speaker Paul Hutton on Thursday, Aug. 14 from 6 – 7:30 p.m. at Hodgin Hall Alumni Center Plaza. Geronimo, the Chiricahua warrior, ...

New research has found that dietary specialization among herbivores, specifically caterpillars, indicates whether or not they are better able to hide themselves from predators such as birds. The research suggests those herbivores who dine on a wide ...

The Annual Summer Biomedical Research Sym­po­sium with a focus on students from New Mexico who are interested in careers in Math, Science, or Engineering is set for Friday, Aug. 8 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., in the Science and Math Learning Center on UNM’s ...

UNM Professor of Anthropology Wirt H. Wills, and two former graduate students, Brandon L. Drake and Wetherbee B. Dorshow, have authored a paper released by the Proceeding of the National Academy of Sciences today that challenges the notion that the Anc

Brain stimulation used to be just a cool idea in science fiction movies, novels and other hard to believe tales when human subjects were stimulated using electrical currents and achieved near super-human feats that couldn’t otherwise perform ...

The University of New Mexico's Continuing Education offers a weekend field course and exercise about wild mustangs Friday-Sunday, Aug. 22 through 24, with an in-class introduction scheduled Tuesday, Aug. 19. The course is designed to explore the horse ...