College of Arts & Sciences

The faculty and doctoral students in the Department of American Literary Studies at the University of New Mexico are riding a wave of publications, with books and articles either recently published or immediately expected on the horizon. The list...

Martin Pfeiffer, or Marty as he prefers to be called, knows his way around our state’s nuclear fallout site—he’s dug through the debris left behind in this remote part of the desert. You could call him curious, but the fact is, as Ph.D. student in...

Elizabeth Ferry presents the XLII Journal of Anthropological Research (JAR) Distinguished Lecture, “Glitter, Grit and Graphics: How do the gold and gold market look from the perspective of a historic Mexican mining city,” on Thursday, Nov. 9 at 7:30 p.m....

This year marks 30 years since the discovery of the richest gold burial in Peru – and UNM is welcoming one of the lead researchers of the site for an evening at the Maxwell Museum. Jeffery Quilter is presenting on “Tales of the Moche Kings and Queens:...

UNM Journalism Professor Mike Marcotte is one of 17 instructors nationwide to be selected by the Tow-Knight Center of Entrepreneurial Journalism into a fellowship in which each recipient is designated a “Disruptive Journalism Educator” who is tasked with...

At its most basic level, a random laser is precisely what its name implies; random. It’s random in the spectrum of light it produces and in the way that light is emitted, making what could be an extremely versatile laser source, nearly useless for most...

The Center for the Southwest at The University of New Mexico presents a special evening with New York Times climate and science reporter Henry Fountain. Fountain will share from his new book The Great Quake: How the Biggest Earthquake in North America...

Arash Mafi, interim director of The University of New Mexico Center for High Technology Materials, has been named a 2018 Optical Society Fellow. “UNM has a well-established and strong research and education tradition in optics and photonics, especially...

With warm, dry summers comes a deadly caveat for the western United States: wildfires. Scientists say the hot, dry climates found west of the Mississippi, along with decades of fire suppression efforts, are creating a devastating and destructive...

A new study released by political science professors at The University of New Mexico could change how the state regulates and records public campaign financing.