College of Arts & Sciences

University of New Mexico undergraduate students work closely with faculty mentors to conduct innovative and exciting research.  Each spring, this research is celebrated at the annual Undergraduate Research Opportunity Conference (UROC). UROC is a...

One of UNM’s many historical buildings has been given new life again – and it will serve as an educational resource to future scientists throughout our community. Situated at the southern edge of main campus, the Natural History Science Center (NHSC) is...

Diana Macias was presented with a 2022 Howard McCarley Student Research Award for her research project entitled “Landscape Genomics and Local Adaptation of Piñon Pine (P. edulis) Across the Intermountain West.” Diana is pursuing a Ph.D. in Biology in the...

Ten students from a variety of majors were selected to present their Sustainable Water Resources Grand Challenge science communication projects at The University of New Mexico this month. It was one of the events held during the Undergraduate Research...

Lisa Barrow, assistant professor of Biology and curator of Amphibians and Reptiles at the Museum of Southwestern Biology at UNM, was awarded a $970,175 National Science Foundation (NSF) grant for her project Determinants of amphibian genomic diversity:...

The animal collections housed at zoos and natural history museums — living specimens in the first case, preserved in the other — constitute an exhaustive trove of information about Earth’s biodiversity. Yet, zoos and museums rarely share data with each...

As an expert in body size evolution of animals, professor of Biology at The University of New Mexico Felisa Smith is often called on to lend her knowledge and opinion on the subject. She is co-editor of a book about animal size...

Mubarak Hussain Syed, an assistant professor of Biology at The University of New Mexico and head of the Syed Neural Diversity Lab, is hosting Building Diversity in Neuroscience, a workshop this week for local high school students as part of his Pueblo...

Eric Denkers, professor of Biology at The University of New Mexico and primary investigator of the Denkers Lab at UNM's Center for Evolutionary and Theoretical Immunology, has been elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology.  Professor...

A University of New Mexico student who is pursuing a double major in Physics and Astronomy, and Biology has now been accepted into the Santa Fe Institute (SFI) summer research program on complexity. “I was both surprised and proud to learn that the...