College of Arts & Sciences

Earth may have produced much of its water during the planet’s formation, as rocky pebbles reacted with the hydrogen-rich atmosphere surrounding the young planet, according to new research published in Nature Geoscience. The findings offer a potential...

New Mexico’s wildfire-ravaged forests could receive a much-needed boost in recovery efforts through this year’s GO Bond 3, which would provide critical funding for Phase 2 at the New Mexico Reforestation Center (NMRC), a multi-site initiative including...

What did Earth's first animals look like? How did they move, feed, and interact with their environments? And what can fossils more than half a billion years old tell us about the origins of the complex life we see today? These questions will take center...

In the heart of the Albuquerque campus, The University of New Mexico will begin construction on the new Humanities & Social Sciences building on Thursday, Oct. 22, on the site of the previous Humanities facility. The estimated $130.5 million project is...

For professors at a research university, proposal writing is a vital part of a tenure-track position. It can be extremely rewarding — setting an academic career on a trajectory of success. Yet there is also the realization that many proposals — despite...

The University of New Mexico’s Undergraduate Research, Arts and Design Network has selected four student ambassadors for the fall 2026 semester. URAD student ambassadors have a wide range of responsibilities that include serving as advisors to other...

General Obligation Bonds, or GO Bonds, come before New Mexico voters every two years and provide an important source of funding for capital improvements at higher education institutions across the state. The bonds help colleges and universities modernize...

A new University of New Mexico co-led research paper on ancient food production in tropical Belize was published in Nature Communications Earth & Environment and provides evidence that people in the Maya speaking region were dedicated farmers thousands...

On Sept. 3, The University of New Mexico, UNM Law, and the State Bar of New Mexico’s Young Lawyers Division (SBNM-YLD) launched a brand new initiative for UNM pre-law students to pair with both young professional lawyers and UNM law students for mentoring opportunities.

The University of New Mexico community came together recently to discuss a topic that has rapidly become omnipresent in today’s world — artificial intelligence.