College of Arts & Sciences

The University of New Mexico’s Department of Economics hosts the second annual New Mexico Economics Research Day, an event designed to highlight New Mexico-centric economics research. The free event will be held Friday, Aug. 18 from 2 to 5 p.m. in...

Siobhán Mattison, associate professor of evolutionary anthropology and director of the Human Family and Evolutionary Demography Lab at The University of New Mexico, recently took a group of undergraduate and graduate students to the South Pacific...

Emily Hendrix, a second-year graduate student in the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology at The University of New Mexico, was recently awarded a prestigious National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship (NSF GRF). The NSF Graduate...

The University of New Mexico's Department of Physics and Astronomy received a $750,000 grant from NASA for its research on exoplanets. With NASA's assistance, the Department of Physics and Astronomy is able to utilize the TESS (Transiting Exoplanet...

When Lobos return to campus this fall, log in online, or some combination of the two, there will be yet another place University of New Mexico learning is taking place: 3rd period.  New Mexico high-schoolers across the state are getting the opportunity...

After a three-year hiatus, the Museum of Southwestern Biology’s annual open collections tour recently returned – better than ever. Over the course of two separate events, Evolution Revealed brought 600 people into the museum to view some of the four...

The saying that it’s about the journey, not the destination, would be an apt way to think about The University of New Mexico’s Formula Society of Automotive Engineering (FSAE) LOBOmotorsports team. In June, the team competed in the Formula SAE...

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) awarded a grant of $4 million to The University of New Mexico's Southwest Environmental Finance Center at a ceremony Monday, July 24. The Investing in America event was held in the Centennial Engineering...

The University of New Mexico International Society for Optics and Photonics (SPIE) Student Chapter recently underwent a revitalization under its president, Mega Frost. Since then, the club has been working hard to develop outreach programs, welcome...

Four undergrads at The University of New Mexico have tackled the problem of water scarcity in the southwest United States by developing a project that would use radar sensors to determine the water levels of the irrigation channels and connect to an app...