Schools and Colleges

Beginning in 2017, through a generous gift from the Frederick Hammersley Foundation, The University of New Mexico's Department of Art launched a program that invites prominent contemporary painters from around the world to live and work in...

At the Arclight Cinema in Hollywood, there’s a café that plays only instrumental music from movie soundtracks, and it makes for quite a unique dining adventure. From one moment to the next, your meal transforms into something sad, epic, romantic – all...

In what is a very special time for The University of New Mexico Anthropology Department—its 90th anniversary of the department, 80th for serial anthropological publications by UNM and nearly the 75th of the Southwestern Journal of Anthropology/Journal of...

Join the Department of Spanish and Portuguese and the Center for Regional Studies for two events, March 22 and 23, focused on Mexican Americans and their historical settlement in the U.S. The first event, a lecture by Robert Con Davis-Undiano, titled...

To inspire and engage potential scientists and engineers, The University of New Mexico Department of Physics and Astronomy hosts its semi-annual Lecture Demonstration Show Wednesday, March 21, in Regener Hall room 103, from 7 to 8 p.m. Undergraduates...

Mehran Tehrani, an assistant professor of mechanical engineering at The University of New Mexico, has been awarded the 2018 Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award. Tehrani and only 30 others were selected out of 340 applicants to receive the...

The Maxwell celebrates two exhibitions in the Current Issues in Anthropology series with an exhibition celebration of Last Supper by C. Maxx Stevens and Ecologies of Resistance by DesertArt LAB on Friday, March 2 from 6–7:30 p.m. The evening begins with...

It takes a special kind of person to pursue a life of teaching. New Mexico’s 2018 Teacher of the Year, Ivonne Orozco, took the generosity of that pursuit one step further, choosing to remain in New Mexico and give back to the community that helped her...

He’s a cartoonist but also a writer: Lalo Alcaraz, the cartoon king, is visiting The University of New Mexico on Thursday, March 1, at 5:30 p.m. in Woodward Hall. Alcaraz is one of the most prolific Chicano artists in the nation. His politically charged...

The University of New Mexico School of Architecture + Planning and the Thornburg Foundation unveiled the winner of 2018 Jeff Harnar Award for Contemporary Architecture, as well as the inaugural winners of the Jeff Harnar Award for Contemporary...