College of Arts & Sciences

A child’s first word is a milestone built upon months or years of constant interactions with friends, family, and community. Even a consistent “hello” at the grocery store from beaming cashiers is the kind of interaction that fosters language development...

UNM’s Department of Communication & Journalism (C&J) has just played a critical role in Indigenous storytelling for years to come. The Department hosted NPR’s Next Generation Radio Program, an outstanding project based out of the decades-old media...

University of New Mexico Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences Professors Laura Crossey and Karl Karlstrom have received a National Science Foundation (NSF) grant for Developing Partnerships Among Tribes, Geoscientists, and the National Park Service...

There are thousands of languages which span across nations and time–an estimated seven thousand known so far. UNM Linguistics recently hired Assistant Professor Joshua Birchall is one of the many linguists working tirelessly to understand, document and...

A gripping tale of ghosts, crime and justice is back to where it all began: New Mexico. University of New Mexico alumnus Ramona Emerson has returned to her alma mater to showcase her wildly successful supernatural crime thriller Shutter.  Shutter...

University of New Mexico Department of Physics and Astronomy Distinguished Professor Greg Taylor recently took a group of students to build antennas at the third Long Wavelength Array (LWA) station. The LWA is a telescope that helps collect radio wave...

What makes us “human”? Students can explore the human species' evolutionary history, genetics, anatomy, physiology, development, and behavior while setting a career course in the new Human Biology Undergraduate Concentration offered through the...

Five doctoral students have begun their journeys as the inaugural cohort for the Department of Native American Studies' (NAS) new Ph.D. program.   As the fourth program of its kind in the country, the NAS Ph.D. program offers a focus in Critical...

In 2022, Latinos, as a group, comprised more than 19% of the U.S. population or nearly 64 million individuals. People of Mexican ancestry make up almost 12% of the US population and 62.3% of Latinos. Mexican, Puerto Rican and Central American Ancestry...

In 2011, Felisa Smith, Distinguished Professor of Biology at The University of New Mexico, was discussing science communications with then-graduate student Mason Ryan. Distinguished Professor Felisa Smith “It was after another of those episodes where...