College of Arts & Sciences

If you travel up stream to the tip-top of the headwaters in the San Juan Range of the Colorado Rockies, you’ll reach the very beginning of the Rio Grande River, and what happens at the very top helps determine the quality and quantity of water that we...

Dr. Amy Lucinda Brandzel, an associate professor at The University of New Mexico with a joint appointment in American and Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, died Tuesday, May 2, 2023 at home in the care of family and surrounded by cherished pets....

Distinguished Professor Mansoor Sheik-Bahae, a faculty member in the Department of Physics and Astronomy, died of complications from cancer on July 10, 2023. There are many tributes being offered in Sheik-Bahae’s memory and all touch on one essential...

Terry Loring, distinguished professor of Mathematics and Statistics, recently published and co-authored a new research piece involving his research on K-theory with the major advances in applications to critical problems in physics. The new research...

The University of New Mexico’s Department of Economics hosts the second annual New Mexico Economics Research Day, an event designed to highlight New Mexico-centric economics research. The free event will be held Friday, Aug. 18 from 2 to 5 p.m. in...

Siobhán Mattison, associate professor of evolutionary anthropology and director of the Human Family and Evolutionary Demography Lab at The University of New Mexico, recently took a group of undergraduate and graduate students to the South Pacific...

Emily Hendrix, a second-year graduate student in the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology at The University of New Mexico, was recently awarded a prestigious National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship (NSF GRF). The NSF Graduate...

The University of New Mexico's Department of Physics and Astronomy received a $750,000 grant from NASA for its research on exoplanets. With NASA's assistance, the Department of Physics and Astronomy is able to utilize the TESS (Transiting Exoplanet...

When Lobos return to campus this fall, log in online, or some combination of the two, there will be yet another place University of New Mexico learning is taking place: 3rd period.  New Mexico high-schoolers across the state are getting the opportunity...

After a three-year hiatus, the Museum of Southwestern Biology’s annual open collections tour recently returned – better than ever. Over the course of two separate events, Evolution Revealed brought 600 people into the museum to view some of the four...