College of Arts & Sciences

It's a one-way ticket to Mars and University of New Mexico student Zachary Gallegos has been named as one of 100 people still participating in the Mars One Astronaut Selection Process for the trip to the Red Planet. Mars One named the 50 men and 50 women for Round 3 after the field was whittled down to 660 last year. Initially, more than 200,000 applicants from 140 countries applied.

The University of New Mexico History Department's Center for the Southwest presents the 2015 C. Ruth and Calvin P. Horn Lecture in Western History and Culture, featuring John Gray, director, National American History Museum at the Smithsonian Institute....

Patrick Joseph Gallacher, professor emeritus of Medieval Language and Literature in the Department of  English at the University of New Mexico, died at the age of 80 on Feb, 7, surrounded by his family. A rosary service takes place Thursday, Feb. 12 at...

University of New Mexico American Literary Studies Professor Jesse Alemán has been named the 2015 Jim and Linda Burke Visiting Scholar in Literature at Oklahoma State University’s Doel Reed Center for the Arts in Taos, N.M.

The University of New Mexico Africana Studies program has a long history of bringing in engaging speakers to kick off Black History Month. When they arranged for NAACP Chairman Roslyn Brock to come, the reception was overwhelming. Individuals and groups...

Clues left behind in a cave in central America have allowed an international, multidisciplinary team of researchers, including several at the University of New Mexico, to produce a new paleoclimate rainfall record that illustrates the contribution of ...

Toby Smith will be at the UNM Bookstore Thursday, Feb. 19 at noon to sign copies of Bush League Boys: The Postwar Legends of Baseball in the American Southwest (University of New Mexico Press, 2014). This event is free and open to the public.

University of New Mexico Professor Emeritus of English E. A. “Tony” Mares – teacher, essayist, poet - died January 30 at the age of 76.  A memorial service is scheduled for Sunday, Feb. 8 at 3:30 p.m. in the UNM Alumni Chapel. Mares, who was born May 17,...

The University of New Mexico’s Campus Office of Substance Abuse Prevention (COSAP), a program that's part of the UNM Center on Alcoholism, Substance Abuse and Addictions (CASAA), received a $10,000 grant recently from Transforming Youth Recovery (TYR) designed to assist students in recovery from substance use disorders and other addictive behaviors.

Film director Maria Agui Carter screens her 75-minute film, "Rebel," on Thursday, Feb. 19, from 6:30 - 9 p.m. in the UNM SUB Ballroom C. The film is the amazing story of Loreta Janeta Velazquez, who crossdressed as a Confederate soldier turned Union Spy.