College of Arts & Sciences

Students and teachers from all over New Mexico, including San Juan College the pueblos of Zia and Jemez, will attend the second annual Building Diversity in Neuroscience workshop at UNM April 13-15 on The University of New Mexico campus. Mubarak Hussain...

The sun was setting behind Centennial Library as local artists slowly meandered into The University of New Mexico’s Natural History Science Center recently for a truly unique event hosted by The Museum of Southwestern Biology (MSB). As an...

Warmer and drier climate conditions in western U.S. forests are making it less likely that trees can regenerate after wildfires, according to...

A new study released in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), makes a significant discovery about the feeding habits of the Southern Right Whale in the Southern Ocean that could have profound impacts on the protection of the species...

On Thursday, Feb. 23, workstations equipped with microscopes will be set up at the University of New Mexico Herbarium, one of eight divisions within the Museum of Southwestern Biology (MSB), as organizers host the first Plant Identification Night of the...

Mubarak Hussain Syed, an assistant professor of Biology at The University of New Mexico, has been awarded a 2023 Sloan Research Fellowship in Neuroscience from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. The fellowships are presented to researchers whose creativity, innovation, and research accomplishments make them stand out...

A collaborative partnership of researchers at the University of New Mexico, Los Alamos National Laboratory, New Mexico State University, University of Kansas, Gorgas Memorial Institute in Panama, and the Center for Research on Health in Latin America in...

Cory Henn was an Iraq war veteran with a career at the New Mexico Corrections Department when he decided to pursue a degree in computer programming. After about a year and a half there he took a biology elective and found his passion, switching to The University of New Mexico to study Biology full time...

When Katie James visited UNM’s campus for the first time, the Honors College students she met gave her a piece of advice that would inform her entire college experience –– UNM has abundant resources available to students who want to use them. It was...

Growing up, Sydney Nesbit always wanted to be an architect. Or maybe a scientist. Or, both. When she arrived at the University of New Mexico, Nesbit decided on a degree in biology with a minor in honors interdisciplinary arts, but she wanted to ensure...