College of Arts & Sciences

The University of New Mexico’s long-scheduled Journal of Anthropological Research 52nd Distinguished Lecture will host Christina Warinner, a bioarcheologist at Harvard and the Max Planck Institute best known for her research on the evolution of ancient...

The UNM College of Arts and Sciences recently announced three full-time faculty members were selected to receive a 2022 Marshall Award for Course Development and Curriculum Enhancement. Each Marshall Award winner will receive $2,000 to support the work...

Human civilizations depend on the climate. Changes in climate affect the production of food and other resources that support our populations and economies. Paul Hooper, alumnus and adjunct associate professor of Anthropology at The University of New...

Researchers at The University of New Mexico, the Allende Program in Social Medicine in Albuquerque and the Global Institute of Public Health in India report in a new study of vaccine distribution in different parts of the world that vaccines are most...

In her new book Workers Like All the Rest of Them, Elizabeth Quay Hutchison, Professor of Latin American History and Associate Vice President of the Division for Equity and Inclusion at The University of New Mexico, recounts the long struggle for...

Scientists at The University of New Mexico recently took part in the opening of ANGSA 73001, a drive tube lunar sample collected by NASA's Apollo 17 mission that will allow scientists to study any gases that may reside in the container as well as lunar...

Three University of New Mexico archaeologists from the Department of Anthropology made significant contributions to a recent special issue of The Journal of Quaternary Science (JQS). Recent UNM Ph.D. and current UNM Adjunct Assistant Professor Milena...

Emma Trentman, associate professor of Arabic at The University of New Mexico, was announced recently as a winner of a grant from the Qatar Foundation International (QFI). Trentman’s research focuses on Arabic language learning in study abroad, virtual...

The UNM College of Arts and Sciences recently announced the winners of its 2022 Teaching Excellence Awards. This year’s honorees are Cindy Gevarter, assistant professor in the Department of Speech and Hearing Sciences, Colin Olson, senior lecturer III in...

Eric Denkers, professor of Biology at The University of New Mexico and primary investigator of the Denkers Lab at UNM's Center for Evolutionary and Theoretical Immunology, has been elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology.  Professor...