College of Arts & Sciences

University of New Mexico Professor Emerita Helen Damico, who founded the school’s Institute for Medieval Studies, died April 14 from complications arising from COVID-19. Damico also established the Institute’s popular annual Medieval Spring Lecture...

A wide range of University of New Mexico researchers from across main and north campuses are utilizing UNM Center for Advanced Research Computing resources to study COVID-19. Researchers from...

University of New Mexico Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences Tobias Fischer was involved in a study published in this week’s journal Nature on the link between the mantle of the Earth and the atmosphere by studying nitrogen and its origins. The...

With local healthcare workers facing a shortage of personal protective equipment (PPE), the Maxwell Museum of Anthropology, UNM Art Museum, and Museum of Southwest Biology recently donated their supply of gloves and N-95 masks to UNM Hospital. 

Last year, Kristina M. Jacobsen, associate professor of Ethnomusicology and Anthropology (Ethnology) at The University of New Mexico, traveled to Italy on a Fulbright U.S. Scholar Award in Cultural Anthropology and Ethnomusicology. The grant would allow...

If you asked University of New Mexico Associate Professor David Weiss what he envisioned as he planned his sabbatical abroad for the 2020 Spring semester, self-isolating in a single-room apartment and teaching strategic planning and political...

A team of researchers from The University of New Mexico, working with the Kibale Chimpanzee Project in Uganda, have found similarities in the way chimpanzees and humans age. In their recently published paper, Wild chimpanzees exhibit humanlike aging of...

The UNM Bureau of Business and Economic Research (BBER) is rolling out a new interactive dashboard and podcast, just in time to entertain and educate people stuck at home during the COVID-19 quarantine. “Enchanting Economics in New Mexico” is the...

Lawrence Straus, the Leslie Spier Distinguished Professor Emeritus in the UNM Department of Anthropology, along with Mathieu Langlais of the University of Bordeaux, recently published a tri-lingual volume with French and Spanish prehistoric...

Substance use disorder and addiction are complex public health problems, vividly evidenced by the ongoing opioid epidemic throughout the country. Also, New Mexico has the highest alcohol-related mortality rate and currently races to address this as well...