College of Arts & Sciences

A health crisis which exists in Chile and Bangladesh, also has profound dangers right here in the Southwestern United States.   Arsenic, a toxic, chemical element, is linked to a number of adverse health issues, like diabetes, cardiovascular disease and...

Just after her freshman year in 2020, University of New Mexico student Kiana Frederick decided to take a course with associate professor Sarita Cargas in the Honors College. Cargas was looking for students who wanted to explore food and housing security...

Rylee Brachle has had her sights set on higher education since she was a child. When she was in elementary school her single mother finished her bachelor’s degree at The University of New Mexico. “She brought me to class a few times,” she recalls. “I...

Through a detailed study of a planetary system 218 light-years away, a team of international researchers is providing evidence for the existence of a new type of planet called a water world. The team, led by Caroline Piaulet, a Ph.D. student of the...

Researchers in the Salinas Lab in The University of New Mexico’s Department of Biology have discovered an immune structure in the nasal cavities of rainbow trout that scientists previously didn’t know existed. The new knowledge will allow fish...

University of New Mexico Physics and Astronomy Professor Emeritus Harjit Ahluwalia was one of 10 Fellows recognized by Sigma Xi as part of its 2022 cohort of Sigma Xi Fellows. The Fellows were honored recently during the inaugural International Forum on...

For the first time since 2020, the Southwest Quantum Information & Technology (SQuInT) annual workshop was able to meet in person at Berkeley, Calif. The three-day event held recently was co-hosted by the Center for Quantum Information and Control...

One of the world’s most seismically-active faults has produced six earthquakes with a magnitude of seven or greater in the last century alone – yet very little is known about it. University of New Mexico Regents’ Lecturer Lindsay Lowe Worthington and her...

Kristina M. Jacobsen, associate professor of Ethnomusicology and Anthropology (Ethnology) at The University of New Mexico, recently traveled to South Africa on a trip that burnished her credentials as a researcher and artist. While there, Jacobsen...

For a period of time in 2020, many of us rarely left our homes. The COVID-19 pandemic forced us to find new ways to collaborate and communicate. For people with disabilities, the COVID-19 pandemic made clear that many remote work accommodations that...