College of Arts & Sciences

The College of Arts & Sciences and the Institute for Medieval Studies (IMS) host a spring lecture series in memoriam of Helen Damico, the inspirational founder of the Institute for Medieval Studies and all UNM’s medieval programs. For more than 30...

Distinguished Professor Paul Hutton from The University of New Mexico Department of History  was recently presented with the True Westerner of the Year Award from True West magazine. Hutton is known for his work in the film and television industry and he...

Entry, descent, and landing technologies are critical to placing large payloads on other planets such as Mars. As a spacecraft enters an atmosphere of a planet such as Earth or Mars, collisions with the atmospheric atoms and molecules generate very high...

A group of 17 historians recently met to assess the turbulent presidency of Donald Trump. Among those helping to compile a scholarly history of the 45th president’s administration is Jason Scott Smith, professor of History at The University of New...

The Maxwell Museum of Anthropology on the campus of The University of New Mexico is holding a special Passport to People family day that will encourage people of all ages to make Eco Explorations in Pottery and celebrate spring with a day in the...

The 2021 Goldwater Foundation Awards were just announced, with all four nominees from The University of New Mexico named winners – all women. Ryla Josephine Cantergiani, Anna Janicek, Abigail Pribisova and Sophia Salbato are among just 410 Goldwater...

A University of New Mexico Biology professor and second year Ph.D. student are part of a team of scientists have examined the immune system of an unusual group of mammals, which includes a small South American opossum, to find solutions that evolution...

Every society has some degree of wealth inequality  ̶  over history, across continents, there always seem to be some people who have more than others. But the amount of inequality differs  ̶  in some civilizations, a few powerful people have nearly all...

A team of interdisciplinary researchers at UNM is teaching robots to take care of plants on Mars – a big step towards having viable food available for astronauts when they land on the Red Planet. Architects, biologists, computer scientists and engineers...

Life on earth is so diverse, in large part because individual species are restricted to particular areas. If populations were to expand unfettered across continents, communities everywhere would contain the same species. But they don’t. Why communities...