College of Arts & Sciences

The Museum of Southwestern Biology (MSB) invites the public to view its natural history collections on Sunday, March 8 from 12-5 p.m. This second annual event is being called ‘The Science of Biodiversity’ because it will feature scientific research that...

UNM student Joel Robinson is one of just 190 students selected from institutions across the country to be a 2020 Truman Scholarship Finalist. Robinson is a National Merit Scholar studying political science and economics with a focus on poverty and...

Dead men tell no tales, the saying goes. But a new database at UNM will allow researchers and others to gather a wealth of information from deceased men, women, and children. Construction of the New Mexico Decedent Image Database  is complete and the...

Researchers at The University of New Mexico are using social media to help educate the public and generate funding for clinical investigations on the effects of using medical Cannabis. Patients, clinicians, and scientists still know very little about...

New research published recently in Science Immunology by collaborators Dr. Irene Salinas at The University of New Mexico Biology Department and Dr. J. Oriol Sunyer at the University of Pennsylvania, Veterinary School, brings new importance of immune...

The Anthropology Graduate Student Union hosts its second annual alumni talk featuring alumna Stacie Hecht on Thursday, Feb. 20 at 4 p.m. in Hibben 105. The lecture, I told you I’d get a job with my anthropology degree, Dad! Navigating the challenges of a...

Research by an international team of scientists led by University of New Mexico Professor Yemane Asmerom suggests contraction of the Intertropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ) during a warming Earth, leading in turn to drying of the Neotropics, including...

He was an English novelist, journalist and social critic -- and this month he is the topic of a free public discussion: Doublespeak and Fake News: How George Orwell Matters Today. The event, sponsored by the Rio Grande Chapter of the Society of...

In 2018, the National Museum of Brazil was ravaged by a fire that destroyed a huge collection of irreplaceable historical artifacts. In a New York Times article, Dalton de Souza Amorim, a professor of biology at the University of São Paulo, was quoted as...

A record number of women are currently serving in the United States Congress, thousands participate in annual women’s marches and they are becoming more widely represented in the boardrooms of big companies. The uptick in women legislators, activists and...