College of Arts & Sciences

The UNM Biology Department hosts its 23rd Annual Research Day and Open House this Thursday and Friday, April 3-4 from 4:30 to 6 p.m.  The keynote speaker is Daniel Simberloff, University of Tennessee-Knoxville, who will discuss “Biological Invasions: ...

Following a campus climate study a few years ago, University of New Mexico President Robert G. Frank and representatives of an Alliance of African American Groups have been meeting regularly to establish an ongoing dialogue and positive lines of ...

The Domenici Institute is calling for panelists for its 2014 Public Policy Conference to be held at New Mexico State University, Sept. 17-18, 2014. Students must be nominated by university faculty for competitive selection. Nominations will come from u

As a reflection from a commitment to diversity, the University of New Mexico has recently made two important hires of African American positions on main campus and at the Health Sciences Center. Brian K. Gibbs, a public health practitioner with 30 year

The University of New Mexico (UNM) Department of Psychology presents Joe Nadglowski, Obesity Action Coalition (OAC) president and CEO, in a talk, titled "Understanding Obesity: Weight Bias and Its Consequences," on Friday, April 4, from 12 to 1 p.m. ...

College of Arts & Sciences Dean Mark Peceny announces the appointment of Robert Jefferson as director of Africana Studies. He assumes the role July 1. Jefferson comes to UNM from the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB), where he was director of t

It began in winter of 1945.  World War II was still raging. The “Southwestern Journal of Anthropology” published its first article, a scholarly work by Franz Weidenreich that began by stating how the Nazis had twisted and misinterpreted ...

Hua Guo, a University of New Mexico professor with dual appointments in Departments of  Chemistry, and Physics and Astronomy, was elected and recognized recently as a Fellow in the American Physical Society (APS).

Approximately 200 Navajo men and boys recently attended a “Hero Twins Workshop” held at the University of New Mexico-Gallup campus. Students, family members and other supporters were encouraged to attend to learn about their Navajo traditions and ...

It has long been known that birds and bats have small genomes, but the cause was uncertain. Now researchers at the University of New Mexico have shown that the genome shrinks over evolutionary time in species that spend lots of energy on flight. This ...