College of Arts & Sciences

Mark PecenyUniversity of New Mexico Provost Chaouki Abdallah announced his decision to name Dean of Arts & Sciences Mark Peceny to a term of five years after an overwhelming majority of Arts & Sciences faculty voted in his favor.Abdallah said, "It has ...

The momentous Higgs Boson discovery opened the door to new understandings of the universe. What are the basic forces that have shaped it since the beginning of time? Physicist Sally Seidel and her team share what they have learned using the Large Hadron ...

The 4th Annual Navajo Rug Auc­tion to ben­e­fit Navajo weavers and the Maxwell Museum will be held Sat­ur­day, Nov. 17 at the Prairie Star restau­rant. More than 200 hun­dred rugs in a wide range of styles both his­toric and recently com­pleted will be ...

Bryan Kaehr (l.) and Jason Townson."Friday afternoon is usually the best time to do science. There's somehow less pressure. The week is behind you. You may get to sleep in tomorrow morning, so why not just try something?" Bryon Kaehr said. Kaehr is a ...

New Mexico in Focus recaps some of the most surprising races and overarching themes that developed in New Mexico's elections, and looks at some of the factors that may have played roles in some of the upsets.New Mexico PBS' one hour public affairs show ...

The Center for Public Anthropology has recognized students in UNM Department of Anthropology Associate Professor Keith Prufer's Introduction to Anthropology class for their opinion pieces. The students participated in a North American competition ...

The International Studies Institute (ISI) at UNM holds its 10th lecture series, "Food & Culture around the Globe," Monday, Oct. 29 - Friday, Nov. 2 in Dane Smith Hall (Yale and Roma) on the University of New Mexico main campus. All lectures are free and ...

American Studies calls to mind the breadth of the American experience through various lenses, including race, ethnicity, time and place. It's a field that's explored internally and externally. Providing an external perspective is Judit Kadar, ...

Sherman Wilcox, center, with two Chinese students, in front of the gates to the Forbidden City.Sherman Wilcox, professor of linguistics, has been asked to deliver a series of 10 lectures, two per day, this week at Beihang University in Beijing, China.The ...

The UNM West Advisory Council presents Don Bullis, local historian and author, delivering the lecture, "New Mexico's Struggle for Statehood: 1846-1912," on Saturday, Oct. 20, from 3:30 – 5 p.m. at the UNM West campus, lecture hall 1225. UNM West is ...