College of Arts & Sciences

The New Mexico Museum of Natural History & Science has joined almost 500 sites across the country to celebrate the launch of the James Webb Space Telescope, NASA’s next great space science observatory. The museum will offer a range of public programs to...

Across countries, continents, and centuries, humans have felt compelled to adorn themselves. A new book edited and co-authored by Hannah Mattson, Southwestern archaeologist and an assistant professor of Anthropology at The University of New Mexico,...

New research conducted by scientists at The University of New Mexico suggests climate-driven tree mortality and fuel aridity are increasing fuel availability in forests leading to record-breaking wildfires in size, spread and plume formation. In North...

As a college freshman at Wayland Baptist University, Haleigh Gossett never expected her collegiate path would lead her to walking across the graduation stage at The University of New Mexico. Gossett, originally from New Mexico, made the decision to...

Ylva Pihlström, a professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy, recently was awarded a three-year, $564,000 grant from NASA to continue research that she started as part of her 2017 Women In STEM Award.  The work, set to begin in January 2022,...

The University of New Mexico now offers an online Master of Chicana and Chicano Studies – the first of its kind in the country. Chicana/o culture is ingrained into the lives of New Mexicans. The culture shows in NM food, architecture, music, and more....

Sandworms are a staple of sci-fi horror: giant, terrifying worms, with gaping lamprey-like maws, that live under the desert sand of Earth or a distant planet. Sandworms have horrified those who encounter them in the films Tremors, Beetlejuice, Star Wars,...

In just two short days, 60 students walked the pathways around The University of New Mexico passing out 300 stickers and 200 cards with positive messages of affirmation to complete strangers – not part of a class assignment – just a friendly gesture to...

The UNM Undergraduate Pipeline Network (UPN), a program which allows students to explore their interests in research and health sciences, is seeking applications for the upcoming summer. The research project provides students with essential skills needed...

University of New Mexico Associate Professor Brady Horn (economics) alongside his co-authors were recently honored with the Georgescu-Roegen Prize from the Southern Economic Association (SEA) for their work. The Georgescu-Roegen Prize is an award given...