College of Arts & Sciences

Two graduate students from The University of New Mexico's Department of Physics and Astronomy, including Andrew Forbes and Anupam Mitra, won awards at the 2020 Four Corners Sectional (Virtual) Meeting of the American Physical Society held...

 Ph.D. candidate Asia Alsgaard and Emily Lena Jones, associate professor of Anthropology at The University of New Mexico, have received a National Science Foundation grant of $28,086 that will allow them to examine how an ancient group of humans were able to maintain ecosystem stability in their environment several thousand years ago.

James L. Thomas, associate professor in the Department of Physics & Astronomy at The University of New Mexico associate professor, assisted by local high school student Ennis Quinn, has been using computational modeling to explain unusual patterns in...

UNM Staff Council and the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee is hosting a discussion and book release featuring Lloyd Lee, in celebration of Native American Heritage Month. Lee, who is faculty at UNM in the Native American Studies Program, will...

Despite the fact that women tend to outlive men in almost all societies, they experience more sickness along the way. This so-called ‘gender-health’ paradox has long puzzled researchers. Biological differences between the sexes – females’ higher body fat...

There was major enthusiasm about the Native American electorate’s potential role in the 2020 election outcome following a historic 2018 mid-term election where the importance of the Native American population as both voters and candidates reached unprecedented levels.

Kimberly Gauderman, associate professor of History at The University of New Mexico, will address “Gender Identity and Sexual Orientation in U.S. Asylum Law” as part of the Feminist Research Institute’s Distinguished Feminist Research Lecture series. The...

Founded in 1889, the University of New Mexico sits on the traditional homelands of the Pueblo of Sandia. The original peoples of New Mexico Pueblo, Navajo, and Apache since time immemorial, have deep connections to the land and have made significant...

In the wake of the 2020 Election results there will be a lot of post-mortem analyses of Latino voters. What has become clear is that Latino voters were highly motivated to vote and were very focused on two critical policy issues. Just second to COVID-19...

Chaco Canyon is extraordinary in many respects, not least in the dense concentration of jewelry found in archaeological contexts dating between the 9th and early 12th centuries CE (Current Era). The largest and most prominent pueblo in the Canyon is...