College of Arts & Sciences

Brain stimulation used to be just a cool idea in science fiction movies, novels and other hard to believe tales when human subjects were stimulated using electrical currents and achieved near super-human feats that couldn’t otherwise perform ...

The University of New Mexico's Continuing Education offers a weekend field course and exercise about wild mustangs Friday-Sunday, Aug. 22 through 24, with an in-class introduction scheduled Tuesday, Aug. 19. The course is designed to explore the horse ...

Streaking across the sky at more than 50 kilometers per second at atmospheric heights of more than a 90 kilometers high, researchers using the first station of University of New Mexico’s Long Wavelength Array (LWA) saw something new that had never ...

Gail Turley Houston, chair, University of New Mexico English Department announced that author N. Scott Momaday will be a Visiting Professor in Creative Writing and American Literary Studies during the 2014-15 academic year. Specializing in poetry and ...

University of New Mexico Department of Anthropology graduate student Jacqueline Kocer was recently awarded a National Science Foundation Fellowship Award. The purpose of the awards, which are given yearly to graduate students in a variety of subject ar

Hydrogen can be used to power cars with zero pollution because it burns with oxygen in the air, producing nothing but water, which is harmless. Hydrogen is also widely used to produce other chemicals. For example, ammonia, which is the fertilizer that ...

The Center for Evolutionary and Theoretical Immunology (CETI), which is centered in the Biology Department, under the direction of Distinguished Professor Eric (Sam) Loker, was recently awarded $5.4 million for five years from The National Insitutes ...

The United States is as diverse as it has ever been, yet most organizations have not kept pace with this rising diversity. In recent months, a wide range of organizations from Google to the Republican Party have spoken of the need to be more racially ...

When it comes to making risky decisions, even the experts listen to the crowd, concludes a study published this month in the journal “Evolution and Human Behavior.”

The University of New Mexico Honors College has selected two Fellows for Academic Year 2014-15: Gary Weissmann, Earth and Planetary Sciences and Matt Hofer, English. A third Distinguished Fellow, Shawn Berman from the Anderson School of Management, ...