College of Arts & Sciences

Sift through ruins and explore ancient culture while learning about the indigenous history in New Mexico during an exciting two-day Chaco Canyon adventure.

UNM’s Communication & Journalism Department is hosting an Internship Fair on March 28 from 10:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. in the C&J Building.  

Jason Scott Smith, professor in the Department of History at The University of New Mexico, has been selected as the Mary Ball Washington Professor of American History at the University College Dublin School of History.

Vince Calhoun hopes to combat mental illnesses using fMRI scanners to map electrical currents via blood moving through the human brain.

Whether it’s the Western classics from the 1950s or modern productions like “Breaking Bad,” New Mexico has been a hot spot for film and television for years. Now, University of New Mexico Distinguished Professor of History Paul Hutton is putting the industry front and center in a new exhibit at the Albuquerque Museum.

The University of New Mexico Department of Biology is continuing its Post-baccalaureate Research and Education Program (PREP), thanks to a five-year, $2 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH). PREP helps support traditionally...

The University of New Mexico Political Science Department is partnering with state legislators to provide students with an immersive, hands-on learning experience in the state’s capitol. "I made contacts that could turn into jobs after college" - Gabe...

A young company developing technology created at the University of New Mexico (UNM) is on a mission to disrupt the landscape of DNA sequencing.

Agriculture consumes about 80 percent of all U.S. water. Making fertilizers uses 1 to 2 percent of all the world’s energy each year. A new program hopes to develop better crops — super plants that are drought-resistant, use less fertilizer and remove more carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.

The University of New Mexico is part of a $1 million, multi-university study designed to examine the effect Indigenous-language immersion schools have on Native American student success, both in the classroom and beyond.