College of Arts & Sciences

University of New Mexico researchers joined forces with software developers from Releaf App to solve a fundamental hurdle in the medical cannabis sciences: how to identify and clinically investigate cannabis plants and their unique chemical profiles,...

On Thursday, Feb. 23, workstations equipped with microscopes will be set up at the University of New Mexico Herbarium, one of eight divisions within the Museum of Southwestern Biology (MSB), as organizers host the first Plant Identification Night of the...

Assistant Professor of History Holly Guise has been awarded two national fellowships to support her research on the colonial/Indigenous relationship during World War II Alaska. Guise is one of 60 recipients of the American Council of Learned Societies...

Two recent grant awards from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Institute of Advanced Study will help support the development of a new book by Associate Professor of History, Sarah Davis-Secord. These awards will allow her the opportunity...

An inaugural event organized by the R.H. Mallory Center for Community Geography and the Center for the Southwest will bring some of the leading experts in Indigenous Cartographies together to initiate important conversations in critical...

Mubarak Hussain Syed, an assistant professor of Biology at The University of New Mexico, has been awarded a 2023 Sloan Research Fellowship in Neuroscience from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. The fellowships are presented to researchers whose creativity, innovation, and research accomplishments make them stand out...

A rat runs through a maze to reach the other side. Whether there’s a reward strategically placed, the presence of water, or an alteration in the rat’s brain chemistry, it’s a test most people can picture or remember. The goal is to uncover some...

A collaborative partnership of researchers at the University of New Mexico, Los Alamos National Laboratory, New Mexico State University, University of Kansas, Gorgas Memorial Institute in Panama, and the Center for Research on Health in Latin America in...

It’s no secret that newly sworn-in Vice President of the Navajo Nation Richelle Montoya has made history. Every time you search her name, you see her groundbreaking accomplishment: the first woman to take on that helm. Still, there’s so much that lies...

One UNM Communication & Journalism Professor is seeing what all the buzz is about–and if he can change it.   Dave Keating is a purveyor of strategic communication. That entails the development of a certain message or campaign meant to reach a certain...