College of Arts & Sciences

In 1970, a University of New Mexico freshman in distress sought professional mental health help on campus. Unsuccessful in finding the help he needed, the student died by suicide. In response to the student’s death and spearheaded by then Psychology...

Old friends get together to relax, share meals, and trust and support each other. In the latter part of life, these friendships are highly valued. Recent research shows this happens in chimpanzees as well as humans. Chimpanzee and human friendships...

Many people believe that Ancestral Pueblo diets were almost solely dominated by run-of-the-mill foods like maize and rabbits. But archaeologists are turning that stereotype around. In early archaeological sites in the Middle Rio Grande basin of central...

During this year’s general election, voters statewide have the opportunity to help The University of New Mexico upgrade several old and outdated laboratories in a number of key areas across campus with the passage of GO Bond C including the Department of...

UNM’s Journal of Anthropological Research 50th Distinguished Lecture originally set for virtual delivery on Sept. 24 by renowned paleoanthropologist Yohannes Haile-Selassie will now be available via a recorded presentation. Haile-Selassie will discuss...

Alexandre Frederick Mills, a graduate student in The University of New Mexico Physics and Astronomy, is among 52 students from across the nation selected by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) for the Office of Science Graduate Student Research (SCGSR)...

Jane Lancaster, Distinguished Professor Emerita at The University of New Mexico, has been honored in the latest edition of Human Nature, the interdisciplinary journal she founded in 1990. Lancaster arrived at the UNM Anthropology department in 1985 and...

One year ago, no one had heard of COVID 19. But by December 2019, the mystery disease was spreading through China. As the new year began in 2020, the virus started spreading throughout the world, affecting millions and killing hundreds of thousands of...

It’s called PAÍS, a Spanish name meaning country or nation. It is a reflection of The University of New Mexico’s commitment to share research and space while recognizing UNM as a Carnegie I research and Hispanic-serving institution. It’s also UNM’s...

The University of New Mexico Ph.D. candidate Milena Carvalho was with a team of archaeologists excavating a site in Portugal when she found an archaeological “smoking gun” that, along with the team’s other finds of stone tools, shows modern humans...