College of Arts & Sciences

This month, the Maxwell Museum of Anthropology at UNM hosts a variety free events open to the public. The world–renowned Maxwell Museum analyzes the history of humankind and its many cultures with an emphasis on Southwestern history.

UNM Political Science Professor Lonna Atkeson is one of two recipients of the Society for Political Methodology’s 2015 Excellence in Mentoring Award anounced recently. The award committee wrote this in the citation for Atkeson. “The committee wishes ...

There were not large numbers of people in the eighth century living in what is now the Southwestern United States and Northwestern Mexico, but the inhabitants who were there really valued cacao and holly beverages which were both high in caffeine. A new...

National Geographic Society representatives will be on campus Friday, Sept. 18 to teach students how to apply and win grants from the Young Explorers Program.

To raise awareness of Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS), University of New Mexico Center on Alcoholism, Substance Abuse, and Addictions (CASAA) FAS Prevention Program invites students, faculty and staff to wear red shoes or red socks on Wednesday, Sept. 9,...

A special symposium is being held for Professor of Linguistics, Phyllis Perrin Wilcox, on Sunday, Sept. 13, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. in SUB Ballroom A. The event pays tribute to her 44 years of...

For nearly two decades, University of New Mexico Leslie Spier Distinguished Professor of Anthropology Lawrence G. Straus, his colleague Manuel R. Gonzalez Morales from the University of Cantabria and their students have spent part of every summer in Spain, in a cave that once held penned goats. They have been searching for a glimpse of the inhabitants who lived in this part of the world between 40 and 3,000 years ago.

For the next few years hundreds of young people will have their brains scanned at the Mind Research Network on the University of New Mexico’s north campus as researchers try to understand precisely how normal young brains rapidly develop the complex...

Siobhán Mattison an assistant professor in Anthropology at the University of New Mexico has received funding from the National Science Foundation to support a three-year project that seeks to understand how social inequality evolves from relatively...

Andrew Sandoval-Strausz, associate chair and associate professor of the University of New Mexico’s Department of History, is one of 36 recipients chosen by the National Endowment for the Humanities’ new ‘Public Scholar’ program, an initiative designed to promote the publication of scholarly nonfiction books for a general audience.