College of Arts & Sciences

New research from a multi-university team of biologists shows what could be a startling drop in the amount of carbon stored in the Sierra Nevada mountains due to projected climate change and wildfire events. The study, “Potential decline in carbon...

Elohim Becerra received a National Science Foundation (NSF) Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award for his proposal "Quantum Measurements for Optical Communications."

A new paper by UNLV Geoscience graduate student Jon Baker has hot implications for the climate future of Russia. Baker, working with UNLV Geoscience Professor Matthew Lachniet and colleagues Yemane Asmerom and Victor Polyak at The University of New...

An international team of researchers, led by University of New Mexico Associate Professor Coenraad Adema, is now one step closer to eliminating a deadly parasitic disease responsible for killing hundreds of thousands of people around the world every year.

The 15th Annual Joe and Steve Mercer Memorial Scholarship Speech Tournament, sponsored by the Department of Communication and Journalism and open to all UNM students, was held recently with 28 students vying for the top honor. The top six speakers from...

Riley Del Rey will be the first in her family to graduate from college. She used her time at UNM to complete a degree in philosophy; and also to become secure in who she is as a transgender woman. She says UNM staff and faculty taught her the deep...

A unique summer course at UNM is teaching students the importance of viewing the future through a lens of the past. “Architecture of Justice” gives students six credit hours using an unconventional, interdisciplinary partnership which exposes students...

The University of New Mexico Department of Physics & Astronomy is hosting a free public lecture featuring Nobel Prize winner W.E. Moerner on Thursday, May 11 at 3:30 p.m.

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...

At 19-years-old, Colleen Fabian was diagnosed with brain cancer. A UNM junior at the time, Fabian was forced to undergo surgery to remove the tumor in her brain. But, thanks to the support from her family, friends and the University community, Fabian...