College of Arts & Sciences

The 15th Annual Joe and Steve Mercer Memorial Scholarship Speech Tournament, sponsored by the Department of Communication and Journalism and open to all UNM students, was held recently with 28 students vying for the top honor. The top six speakers from...

Riley Del Rey will be the first in her family to graduate from college. She used her time at UNM to complete a degree in philosophy; and also to become secure in who she is as a transgender woman. She says UNM staff and faculty taught her the deep...

A unique summer course at UNM is teaching students the importance of viewing the future through a lens of the past. “Architecture of Justice” gives students six credit hours using an unconventional, interdisciplinary partnership which exposes students...

The University of New Mexico Department of Physics & Astronomy is hosting a free public lecture featuring Nobel Prize winner W.E. Moerner on Thursday, May 11 at 3:30 p.m.

As an undocumented student, Estefania Montanez came to UNM to  advocate for other underrepresented students. Now, she is graduating with a B.S. in Psychology and has already accepted a full ride scholarship to become a doctor at the UNM School of...

At 19-years-old, Colleen Fabian was diagnosed with brain cancer. A UNM junior at the time, Fabian was forced to undergo surgery to remove the tumor in her brain. But, thanks to the support from her family, friends and the University community, Fabian...

Seven humanities doctoral students in the College of Arts & Sciences at The University of New Mexico are recipients of the 2017 Bilinski Fellowship. As a recipient, each student will receive dissertation completion fellowships made possible through...

The first-ever Stuart A. Northrop Distinguished Lecture series, hosted by The University of New Mexico’s Department of Earth & Planetary Sciences, features Professor Jonathan Payne in a talk titled, “The Modern (6th) Mass Extinction: A Geological...

It’s award season at The University of New Mexico and one of the groups recognized recently were outstanding educators with the annual Teaching Awards sponsored by the Faculty Senate Teaching Enhancement Committee and the Center for Teaching Excellence...

After more than four decades at The University of New Mexico, Department of Chemistry & Chemical Biology Professor Richard Holder is saying goodbye after a long and distinguished career.