College of Arts & Sciences

New Mexico folk traditions, old and new, will take center stage during an afternoon of captivating music at ¡¡Música del Corazón, A Celebration of Nuevo Mexicano Music!! The annual John D. Robb, Jr., Concert will begin at 3 p.m.on Sunday, Oct. 4 at the...

Kathy Powers, professor in the Department of Political Science, and affiliated faculty with Africana Studies, was awarded the prestigious fellowship to study at the Woodrow Wilson Center over the summer. She also spent part of the summer teaching in Germany.

Victor Polyak, senior research scientist in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences at UNM, was recently awarded the National Speleological Society (NSS) Science award for his dedication to the research of caves. Polyak manages the UNM Radiogenic...

Debra Martin, the Lincy Professor of Anthropology at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas presents the XLI Journal of Anthropological Research Distinguished Lecture, titled “Hard Times in Dry Lands: Apocalypse in the Ancient Southwest or Business as...

Ann Ravel, the chair of the Federal Election Commission, an independent regulatory agency created to administer and enforce campaign finance laws in the U.S., speaks Friday, Sept. 18 at 11 a.m. at the Jackson Student Center in Anderson School of...

The University of New Mexico hosts a talk by Alice Dreger titled, “Galileo’s Middle Finger: Why Social Progress Depends on the Protection of Academic Freedom,” Thursday, Sept. 17 at 8 p.m. in Anthropology rm. 163. Dreger is an historian of medicine and...

National Geographic explorers Mark Synnot and Kenny Broad discuss their adventures as National Geographic explorers Saturday, Sept. 19. The free event will take place at 7 p.m. in lecture hall 163 in the Anthropology building on the UNM campus. Doors ...

This month, the Maxwell Museum of Anthropology at UNM hosts a variety free events open to the public. The world–renowned Maxwell Museum analyzes the history of humankind and its many cultures with an emphasis on Southwestern history.

UNM Political Science Professor Lonna Atkeson is one of two recipients of the Society for Political Methodology’s 2015 Excellence in Mentoring Award anounced recently. The award committee wrote this in the citation for Atkeson. “The committee wishes ...

There were not large numbers of people in the eighth century living in what is now the Southwestern United States and Northwestern Mexico, but the inhabitants who were there really valued cacao and holly beverages which were both high in caffeine. A new...