College of Arts & Sciences
February 11, 2014
University of New Mexico Assistant Professor of English Natasha N. Jones earned a 2014 CCCC Technical and Scientific Communication Award for her article, “Plain Language in Environmental Policy Documents: An Assessment of Reader Comprehension and ...
By Karen Wentworth
February 10, 2014
The University of New Mexico has received new five-year, $800,000 grant for its Andrew W. Mellon Foundation sponsored program in the humanistic social sciences. The objective of the grant is to increase the rate of completion and the number of new Ph.D
By Mara Kerkez
February 07, 2014
The N-word bellowed three times from a microphone, catching the attention of passersby in the middle of a busy lunchtime in the Student Union Building. But that was the point. It was the opening line for a candid conversation on the use of the racial ...
February 06, 2014
Pueblo Nuevo has a government health clinic that serves the 16 surrounding villages. The clinic provides vital services to the community, including support and care for women through the process of giving birth. Prior to arriving at the clinic, many ...
February 04, 2014
A recent study initiated by the Metropolitan Detention Center for Bernalillo County and conducted by the University of New Mexico’s Center on Alcoholism, Substance Abuse, and Addictions (CASAA), found that inmates receiving Methadone Maintenance ...
January 31, 2014
Social media is not just about having a bunch of Facebook friends or Twitter followers, according to Benson Hendrix, public relations specialist, University Communication and Marketing and adjunct instructor in Communication & Journalism. Effective ...
January 30, 2014
University of New Mexico climatologist David Gutzler was one of two recipients of the 2014 New Mexico Earth Science Achievement Awards announced recently in the rotunda at the New Mexico state capitol building during the legislative session. Gutzler, ...
By Mara Kerkez
January 28, 2014
Launching Black History Month, the University of New Mexico Africana Studies recently hosted a brunch in the Student Union Building featuring keystone speaker Sybrina Fulton, the mother of slain Florida teen Trayvon Martin. Before the event that took ...
By Steve Carr
January 28, 2014
The debate over the age of the Grand Canyon has carried on for more than 140 years with several different scenarios bandied about over the decades. Some scientists say the canyon is some 70 million years old, while others believe it is much younger – l
January 27, 2014
The discovery of 4.5 million year-old Ardipithecus ramidus in Ethiopia and its detailed analysis sheds significant light on the question of when our early ancestors began to walk on two legs. C. Owen Lovejoy, professor of anthropology at Kent State Uni
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