College of Arts & Sciences

Assistant Professor Paulo Dutra of The University of New Mexico Department of Spanish and Portuguese is a 2020 semifinalist for the highly prestigious Prêmio Oceanos, the Oceanos Prize for Literature in the Portuguese Language. His book, Abliteraçōes,...

As COVID-19 swept across the world this year, claiming hundreds of thousands of lives, it quickly became clear that one essential factor for controlling its spread is the ability to rapidly and accurately test for the virus causing it, SARS-CoV-2, as...

It was August 28, 1963, when civil rights activist Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his iconic I Have a Dream speech on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in our nation’s capital. It was delivered in front of some 250,000 people at the "March on...

The Journal of Anthropological Research (JAR) announced the guest speaker for its 50th installment of the JAR Distinguished Lectures. The series founded by Lawrence Straus, the Leslie Spier Distinguished Professor Emeritus in the University of New Mexico...

The University of New Mexico (UNM) has received a $3 million award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for an innovative graduate education program centered in the University’s science museums. The Museum Research Training Program (MRT) is a...

Dogs have been companions to humans for centuries and played many roles as guardians, pets, hunting companions, and more. University of New Mexico Archaeology student Victoria Monagle has examined these relationships and recently collaborated with...

When radioactive materials are released into the environment after, for example, above-ground nuclear testing, they may be then accumulated in various organisms through breathing air, or via ingestion of water, sediments and plants. A group of...

Researchers from The University of New Mexico and a German team have written a collaborative paper about their joint project that was published this week. The article is Laser cooling of ytterbium-doped silica glass and appears in Communications...

From the moment the first African slaves were brought to the shores of Virginia and sold to the colonists there in 1619, the battle for education for African-Americans has been hard-fought and often cruel. As the groundbreaking New York Times 1619 series...

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 37,968 people in the US were diagnosed with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, during 2018. In this same year, at least 15,820 HIV-positive Americans died. Modern medicine has made impressive...