Faculty News

After a two-year hiatus, the Maxwell Museum of Anthropology’s annual Ancestors lecture will return with a talk by The University of New Mexico assistant professor and evolutionary anthropologist Ian Wallace. The lecture will be Thursday, Feb. 16, at 6:30...

The University of New Mexico Professor Emeritus of History Richard Etulain points to his Spanish Basque-born father when explaining why he’s such a prolific writer. This year he has four new books being released, his 61st through 64th. “Dad always...

The future of the educational landscape for children of the Navajo Nation could be largely improved thanks to the fervor and dedication of one UNM Native American Studies professor and her mother, Dr. Delores Greyeyes. It’s an effort that researcher...

There is just one semester left to go for a critical program within UNM’s College of Education and Human Sciences (COEHS).  Creating Responsive Educational Avenues for Training Environments in Early Childhood (CREATE EC) is a new interdisciplinary...

A new project at The University of New Mexico funded by the National Science Foundation will strive to create new solutions for 6G-enabled networks aimed at improving public safety. Eirini Eleni Tsiropoulou, an assistant professor in the Department of...

After serving as the acting dean of Graduate Studies in Fall 2021 and working as the associate dean since Fall 2019, Jesse Alemán has been named the interim dean of Graduate Studies through July 2023. Provost James Holloway announced the appointment...

Shuya Wei, an assistant professor in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering at The University of New Mexico, is the recipient of an American Chemical Society Petroleum Research Fund (ACS-PRF) Doctoral New Investigator grant. Shuya...

For the first time in three years due to the pandemic,  a good-sized contingent from The University of New Mexico made the trip to Santa Fe to showcase a variety of activities highlighting the University’s people, colleges and departments as well as...

The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) announced today that Patricia Crown, the Leslie Spier Distinguished Professor of Anthropology Emerita at The University of New Mexico, has been elected as a 2022 AAAS Fellow. Election as a...

UNM Professor Dr. Emeritus Bruce Porch is 95 years young.  With decades of experience as a speech-language pathologist under his belt, Porch’s extensive array of research, publications, founding new speech pathology programs and patient care continues...