College of Arts & Sciences

Internationally recognized scholar and Penn State Lehigh Valley Professor of Communication Arts and Ssciences Nichola D. Gutgold makes a virtual appearance at The University of New Mexico to address the widely discussed topic of women and the U.S....

The COVID-19 pandemic has prompted the search for animal models that demonstrate the symptoms observed in humans infected with SARS-CoV-2. New research from University...

Since 2010, Tom Jacobs, a former U.S. naval officer, has participated in online volunteer projects that allow anyone who is interested — “citizen scientists” — to look through NASA telescope data for signs of planets beyond our solar system. Now, Jacobs...

Heather Edgar, forensic anthropologist at The University of New Mexico Office of Medical Investigator (OMI) and professor of Anthropology, has been awarded a grant from the National Institute of Justice, according to a department press release....

Newly published research by Cyler Conrad, an adjunct assistant professor of Anthropology at The University of New Mexico, and colleagues from The University of Kansas provides a fascinating glimpse into the food items brought to San Francisco by ship...

University of New Mexico Ph.D. candidate Ethan Gyllenhaal has been engaged in a series of research projects that use genomic analyses to explain the complex evolutionary processes that take place within and between island bird populations...

When an interdisciplinary team from The University of New Mexico was awarded a four-year, $1.5 million grant from the National Science Foundation in 2020, the goal was to develop novel, bio-inspired software and drones to measure and sample volcanic...

In 2019, a team of scientists, led by University of New Mexico Associate Professor Alejandro Manjavacas, used UNM Center for Advanced Research Computing resources to make a discovery explaining some of the mysterious characteristics of daguerreotypes....

David Weiss, the Chair of the Communication and Journalism Department at The University of New Mexico and his student, undergraduate Andrew Schumann, are currently researching foreign criticism of U.S. presidents. In particular, they are looking at...

For the past century, Southwestern archaeologists have debated what happened to the Mimbres people of southwestern New Mexico after AD 1150, a group known for their vibrant pottery with its distinctive geometric and animal designs. Starting in the...