College of Arts & Sciences

For a period of time in 2020, many of us rarely left our homes. The COVID-19 pandemic forced us to find new ways to collaborate and communicate. For people with disabilities, the COVID-19 pandemic made clear that many remote work accommodations that...

Kaelyn Moon, a sophomore at The University of New Mexico, was recently named the 2022 Undergraduate Student of the Year at the recent Association for Black Culture Centers (ABCC) conference hosted by the UNM African American Student Services...

Arash Mafi, interim dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at The University of New Mexico, has accepted a similar position as executive dean for the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences (CLAS) at the University of Kansas in Lawrence, Kan. Mafi will...

The Lobo Language Acquisition Lab presents #CelebrateBilingualismNM Speaker Series featuring Dr. Rain Bosworth on Friday, Dec. 2 from 12 to 1:30 p.m. The title of Bosworth’s talk is Learning about Language from Bimodal Babies: Insights from Eye Gaze...

It’s never too late to start exercising. That’s been an adage tossed around by health experts for decades.  While there are different recommendations for different age groups for how often and how long one should exercise, the bottom line has typically...

Two professors of Linguistics have identified the "primal consonants" of human languages ̶ a small set of five consonant types that most likely were the original consonant sounds in early, even pre-human, communication, and subsequently underwent change...

A historic class at the University of New Mexico is coming back. The Communication and Journalism Department (C&J) is offering its one-of-a-kind Cannabis and Communication course this spring. After two successful semesters prior to the legalization...

It’s the latest, breaking news for some that the UNM Communication and Journalism (C&J) Department is setting the stage properly for future journalists. Yet for the minds behind the UNM-based Local News Fellowship, it’s a story they’ve been following...

Wesley Chenault, who received his Ph.D. in American Studies from The University of New Mexico in 2008, has been appointed associate director for Strategic Initiatives and Programs of the Smithsonian Libraries and Archives. In this inaugural role,...

In a first of its kind event, Steve A. Darden (Diné/Navajo and Cheyenne) will share his research on Diné traditional concepts around death, the afterlife, and burials in a presentation called, “Diné/Navajo Stories about Death, the Afterlife, Grief...