College of Arts & Sciences

The estate gift from an alumnus of The University of New Mexico School of Engineering will significantly benefit research, discovery and teaching programs in two schools. The donation, from the estate of Robert...

Psychology majors at The University of New Mexico are responding enthusiastically to a recent addition to the curriculum, “The Dreaming Brain,” an online special topics course developed by alumnus and Senior Lecturer Allen Butt. By the title of the...

Mars is in the news with the landing of the Perseverance rover and there is a renewed interest in the red planet. In the March issue of National Geographic, professor Maria Lane of The University of New Mexico Department of Geography & Environmental...

Endless pivots in the 2020 curriculum and academic environment inspired a University of New Mexico group to rally – ensuring graduate students had the tools needed to search for jobs in an increasingly competitive market. The coronavirus pandemic has...

Paleo-ecologists from The University of New Mexico and at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln have demonstrated that the offspring of enormous carnivorous dinosaurs, such as Tyrannosaurus rex may have fundamentally re-shaped their communities by...

Researchers at The University of New Mexico are tied to a new study published in the journal “Royal Society Open Science” that documents the earliest-known fossil evidence of any primate. Associate Professor Jason Moore, of UNM Honors College, and Wade...

University of New Mexico student Emma Hotz is one of just 193 from institutions across the country to be a 2021 Truman Scholarship Finalist. Hotz is a recipient of the UNM Scholars Scholarship studying Political Science and Sociology, with a Political...

When the Maxwell Museum of Anthropology at The University of New Mexico had to shut down last year because of the pandemic, the staff decided to take the museum and its vast collection to its audience online. In a recently released video, the Maxwell...

A version of this story originally appeared in Brookings' How We Rise blog and was republished with permission from Brookings Institute. Gabriel Sanchez is a Professor of Political Science at The University of New Mexico, a Non-Resident Senior Fellow for...

Professor Blair Wolf and Ph.D. student Ric Ramirez from the Department of Biology at The University of New Mexico and colleagues published a paper in Science this week about their research that shows bird populations and species richness in the Mojave...