College of Arts & Sciences

The University of New Mexico's Office of the Vice President for Research and the University Communication and Marketing (UCAM) Department annually compile a list of its top-10 research news stories during the course of the year. Below is the list of...

Researchers at The University of New Mexico hope a new open-source data sharing website will help bring scientists closer to effective diagnoses for psychiatric and neurological disorders. The Patient Repository for EEG Data + Computational Tools...

A new study conducted by researchers at The University of New Mexico, involving medical cannabis and prescription opioid use among chronic pain patients, found a distinct connection between having the legal ability to use cannabis and significant...

University of New Mexico researchers have been awarded a five-year $7 million federal grant that establishes a new center to develop more effective behavioral health interventions for the state’s under-resourced, racially, ethnically and geographically...

The United States is in the midst of a major drug epidemic. Stories continue to roll in daily about the lives claimed by prescription and non-prescription drug overdoses. The numbers are staggering. Opioids alone (including prescription pain killers and...

As an undocumented student, Estefania Montanez came to UNM to  advocate for other underrepresented students. Now, she is graduating with a B.S. in Psychology and has already accepted a full ride scholarship to become a doctor at the UNM School of...

Researchers from The University of New Mexico will host a presentation on the prescription opioid epidemic and New Mexico’s medical cannabis program on Friday, March 3 at 9 a.m. in room 103 at the Education Building. UNM researchers Jacob Vigil and Sara...

It’s Valentine’s Day and you’re sitting there scrolling through your various social media feeds pondering what love is. Yes, it’s a crazy thing we, humans, call love, and often times, it’s hard to put into words in an attempt to describe the feeling. So...

The Medical Cannabis Research Fund (MCRF) at the University of New Mexico was created by Associate Professor Jacob Vigil in the Department of Psychology to support wide-ranging scientific research on medical Cannabis across all areas of the social and...

It’s a problem of huge proportions affecting millions in the United States and worldwide. According to the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, alcohol use disorder (AUD) is defined as problem drinking that becomes severe. In the United...