College of Arts & Sciences

The inaugural event for the Hitchcock-Kelly Fund for Human and Indigenous Peoples' Rights, featuring Professor James Amaya, is scheduled for Monday, April 24 at 7 p.m. (MDT) in Anthropology room 163. Parking is available in C Lot. The event is sponsored...

The 13th Annual University of New Mexico Sustainability Expo will take place on Thursday, April 20, from 10:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. on Cornell Mall at UNM's main campus. This Earth Day-inspired event will feature a tribute to local farmers, along with...

In 1527, a Moroccan man by the name of Mustafa Azemmouri landed in the US as a slave, possibly becoming the first Arab individual to move to the US. Then in 1854, Antonio Bishallany immigrated from Lebanon to the United States and became the first...

It’s three years in a row now that the University of New Mexico can proudly say it has a Truman Scholar.  For 2023, that incredibly prestigious honor goes to senior and Honors College student Andrew Schumann. Schumann was selected as just one out of 62...

My Linh Lucero, a second-year student at The University of New Mexico, has been awarded the Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship. The fundamental objective of MMUF is to address the problem of underrepresentation in the academy at the level of college...

The Journal of Anthropological Research hosts its 54th Distinguished Lecture with American linguist and psychologist John A. Lucy from the University of Chicago, who will address The Influence of Language Structure and Function on Thought: A Comparison...

It’s an old equation with a new solution. Now, new funding, plus a new UNM team is going to equal more STEM educators in New Mexico.  The National Science Foundation (NSF) has just awarded a UNM cross-campus collaboration a $1.49 million grant. That...

Naomi Sunderland, senior lecturer of the First Peoples and Social Justice team at Griffith University in Queensland, Australia, is coming to The University of New Mexico as an Australian Fulbright scholar spring of 2024. She will teach in the music...

Reduced predictability of seasonal rainfall might have played a significant role in the disintegration of Classic Maya societies about 1,100 years ago. 'Decline in seasonal predictability potentially destabilized Classic Maya societies' is a new study...

The University of New Mexico’s Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences announces the Sixth annual Stuart Northrop Distinguished Lecturer featuring Dr. Clara Deser on Friday, April 14 at 3 p.m. in Northrop Hall, Room 122. Deser’s talk, “A Range of...