College of Arts & Sciences

UNM’s Department of History Associate Professor Kimberly Gauderman was recently chosen as one of twelve inaugural recipients for the Mellon/ACLS Scholars and Society Fellowship from the American Council of Learn Societies.

For decades, Scott Collins has studied the impacts of natural disturbances and environmental change on grasslands in North America and South Africa to learn how rainfall variability, temperature changes and shrub encroachment affect these globally...

In honor of the Grand Canyon National Park’s 2019 Centennial celebration, Earth Day 2019 and the 150th anniversary of John Wesley Powell’s 1869 pioneering Colorado River expedition, hundreds of scientists will be gathering at the Grand Canyon for the...

Nick Estes, assistant professor in the American Studies Department at The University of New Mexico, will be at the UNM Bookstore on Wednesday, April 17 at 2 p.m. to speak about and sign his latest book Our History is the Future: Standing Rock Versus the...

In 1963 the Sierra Club, an environmental organization founded by John Muir, enlisted photographer Eliot Porter to document Glen Canyon, a stunning landscape slated to be submerged under the waters of the Colorado River with the construction of the Glen...

An alumna from The University of New Mexico is part of an international team of scientists that was able to produce the first-ever image of a supermassive black hole revealed earlier this week.  Raquel Fraga-Encinas, who is currently a Ph.D. student at...

The University of New Mexico’s Chemistry Department presents the 2019 Milton Kahn Endowed Lecture Series featuring Princeton University Professor Gregory D. Scholes on Friday, April 19 at 4 p.m. in the Science Math and Learning Center. Scholes’ lecture...

A team of researchers including University of New Mexico economics professor Andrew Goodkind is addressing the deadly problem of particulate matter air pollution in the U.S. and how to best mitigate it.

The University of New Mexico's Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Institute of Meteoritics presents the 3rd annual Stuart A. Northrop Distinguished Lecturer featuring Dr. Meenakshi Wadhwa on April 12 at 3 p.m. in Northrop Hall, Room...

The American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) recently announced the induction of Jeremy Edwards, professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology at The University of New Mexico to its College of Fellows. Election to the AIMBE...