College of Arts & Sciences

Her name is Naia, and for thousands and thousands of years, the skeleton of this young woman was buried underwater in an elaborate cave system in the Yucatan Peninsula after she had apparently fallen into what was then a dry deep pit. Now, a team of...

The University of New Mexico Department of History, along with the American Historical Association and three other universities, shares in a $1.6 million grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation aimed at diversifying job opportunities for those who ...

University of New Mexico Department of Communication & Journalism graduate student and author Hakim Bellamy won the Tillie Olsen Award for Creative Writing from the Working Class Studies Association for his debut poetry collection, SWEAR, published by ...

As the saying goes, Life is what happens while we’re busy making plans. In 1941, John Henry Hodges was teaching with the Albuquerque Public Schools while working on his master’s degree in history at the University of New Mexico. He’d completed all ...

The University of New Mexico Department of Communication & Journalism has been reaccredited by the Accrediting Council on Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, making the department multimedia journalism and strategic communication ...

The campus community is invited to attend a pair of lectures, given by Dr. Douglas Burbank, the UNM Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences Caswell Silver Distinguished Lecturer. The first, on Thursday May 8 at 3:30 p.m., is titled, "Growth of the T

Climate scientists have long documented the strong control of Earth’s orbital variations on the waxing and waning of the great ice ages, when huge “pluvial” lakes filled the valley floors of the Great Basin. For years it was thought that Great Basin ...

Meng Zhang, a second year Ph.D. student in anthropology, is learning the scientific research techniques of an anthropologist under the mentorship of UNM Leslie Spier Distinguished Professor of Anthropology Lawrence Straus. Zhang, who recently won the “C

The National Academy of Sciences has announced that Distinguished Professor of Anthropology Patricia Crown has been elected as a member. This is one of the highest honors accorded to scientists and is given in recognition ...

The University of New Mexico Department of Speech & Hearing Sciences (SHS) is offering a seven-week stuttering management clinic for adults and adolescents this summer. Clinics are on Tuesday afternoons from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m., beginning June 3 and ...