College of Arts & Sciences

The UNM Department of English hosts distinguished writer Ana Castillo to deliver the 5th annual Rudolfo and Patricia Anaya Lecture on the Literature of the Southwest, on Thursday, Oct. 23 at 7 p.m. in George Pearl Hall room 101. A reception will ...

University of New Mexico Professor of English Sharon Oard Warner is the author of the new book, "Sophie's House of Cards," published by the UNM Press.  “Perhaps it’s a trick of the imagination, but the house of cards seems to glow, filling the murky r

The Musicology Colloquium series kicks off Thursday, Oct. 2 at 2 p.m. in Zimmerman Library, Waters Room on the UNM campus. The opening program features David Samuels, delivering "The Oldest Songs They Remember: Frances Densmore, Mountain Chief, and ...

A study published in the journal “Nature,” examines how chimpanzees kill in the wild. The study, titled “Lethal aggression in Pan is better explained by adaptive strategies than human impacts,” features collaborative research that concludes lethal aggr

The UNM Department of Communication & Journalism hosts first fall colloquium on Friday, Sept. 19 from 3 - 4:30 p.m. in room 119. Guest speaker Helia Vaezian, currently a Visiting Researcher, addresses the topic, “On representation of Feminism in ...

Forty years ago, Americans watched the Watergate impeachment hearings of President Richard M. Nixon, Albuquerque Cab Company began operations, and at the University of New Mexico a young, new professor, Richard Holder, arrived on a campus that was ...

Christine Garcia, a Ph.D. candidate in the University of New Mexico English Department, has been awarded the 2014-2015 Center for Regional Studies Hector Torres Fellowship. Garcia, whose concentration is in rhetoric and writing, earned both her B.A. ...

The University of New Mexico Department of Anthropology Colloquium Series presents “Corn, Calories, Labor, Risks and Outcomes” Thursday, Sept. 11 at 4 p.m. in Hibben Hall, room 105, with anthropologist, David E. Stuart. Stuart discusses the impressive ...

Manuel C. Molles, Jr., Professor Emeritus, UNM Department of Biology, was recently awarded the 2014 Eugene P. Odum Award for Excellence in Ecology Education by the Ecological Society of America (ESA). The Eugene P. Odum Award recognizes an ecologist ...

In a world where news travels instantly and interpreted on the fly, it’s hard to grasp the slow and careful work of archeologists. Lawrence Straus, UNM Leslie Spier Distinguished Professor of Anthropology,...