Schools and Colleges

The Maxwell Museum of Anthropology’s annual Ancestors lecture returns with a talk by The University of New Mexico Associate Professor Sherry Nelson. Nelson will speak about Becoming Human: The Early Stages from Ape to Hominin. The lecture will be...

Assistant Professor Scott Kamen’s new book, From Union Halls to the Suburbs: Americans for Democratic Action and the Transformation of Postwar Liberalism examines what we call “liberalism” in the United States and the shift from its working-class roots...

Over 80 years ago, the U.S. removed the Gila Apache from the Office of Indian Affairs’ Indian Tribes list despite being recognized as a federal tribe for nearly nine decades. Today, the tribe has reclaimed their Gileño and Mimbreño identity in their...

Three University of New Mexico online programs are ranked in the top 50, including two in the top 25 in the latest edition of U.S. News & World Report 2024 Best Online Programs survey released Feb. 7. Overall, eight UNM programs were ranked in the survey...

Pulitzer Prize winning Diné composer and sound artist Raven Chacon, who earned his Bachelor of Arts degree in music at The University of New Mexico will bring his Three Songs projects to the Harwood Museum of Art in Taos. Three Songs pays tribute to...

The Department of Anthropology at The University of New Mexico is celebrating Black History Month in February with a website page full of resources that include the history of Black History Month, Black scholar biographies, the African-American community...

This story is one for the history books, which is fitting, as the news itself is about a history book.  A devoted team of UNM Native American professors are planning, developing and writing the first ever tribal government textbook for young...

Tobias Fischer, a professor at The University of New Mexico's Department of Earth & Planetary Sciences, has been heavily involved in tracking Iceland’s volcanic activity. A noted volcanologist, Fischer traveled to Iceland in mid-November 2023 to...

UNM Communication & Journalism Professor Michael Lechuga is not only paving the path for research on virtual reality, but an all too real one.  Lechuga has just co-authored and published the book Migrant World Making, a harrowing collection of...

It was Christmas morning in 2021 when, on behalf of 8 billion current humans, 10,000 future observers, 20,000 engineers and technicians, 100 scientists worldwide, and three space agencies, the greatest telescope ever made took off from Europe’s Spaceport...