College of Arts & Sciences

An inaugural event organized by the R.H. Mallory Center for Community Geography and the Center for the Southwest will bring some of the leading experts in Indigenous Cartographies together to initiate important conversations in critical...

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 rat runs through a maze to reach the other side. Whether there’s a reward strategically placed, the presence of water, or an alteration in the rat’s brain chemistry, it’s a test most people can picture or remember. The goal is to uncover some...

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...

It’s no secret that newly sworn-in Vice President of the Navajo Nation Richelle Montoya has made history. Every time you search her name, you see her groundbreaking accomplishment: the first woman to take on that helm. Still, there’s so much that lies...

One UNM Communication & Journalism Professor is seeing what all the buzz is about–and if he can change it.   Dave Keating is a purveyor of strategic communication. That entails the development of a certain message or campaign meant to reach a certain...

Mentions of quantum technology may bring to mind images of a certain insect-like superhero, but research in the emerging field happens everyday at the University of New Mexico, and undergraduates from around the state are invited to get in on the...

One University of New Mexico Ph.D. student is embracing the Hawaiian term ‘ikaika;. Leilani DeLude is dedicating her educational mission, with immense determination, to the island she was born and raised on.  DeLude just received a $2,000 Diversity...

The University of New Mexico Creative Writing Program hosts alumnus and National Poetry Series Award-winning poet Jake Skeets for two events.  Skeets will read his poetry in the Garcia Honda Auditorium of George Pearl Hall at the School of Architecture...

Frances Hayashida, professor of Anthropology and director of the Latin American and Iberian Institute at The University of New Mexico, has received the Society for American Archaeology Book Award in the Scholarly category for Rethinking the Inka:...