College of Arts & Sciences

Approximately 200 Navajo men and boys recently attended a “Hero Twins Workshop” held at the University of New Mexico-Gallup campus. Students, family members and other supporters were encouraged to attend to learn about their Navajo traditions and ...

It has long been known that birds and bats have small genomes, but the cause was uncertain. Now researchers at the University of New Mexico have shown that the genome shrinks over evolutionary time in species that spend lots of energy on flight. This ...

Marjorie Agosín, award-winning poet, essayist, fiction writer, activist and professor, is at UNM this week. On Thursday, March 6 from 5:30 - 7 p.m. in Mitchell Hall room 122, Agosín offers a presentation and discussion, "Weaving Resistance Women, ...

The STEM Gateway program at the University of New Mexico hosts a faculty workshop on Peer Learning Facilitators and Active Learning in the Classroom Monday, March 10 from 2:30 to 4:30 p.m. in the basement of the University College Advising Center, room

Chemical reactions proceed so fast it’s hard to capture the moves atoms make as they break and reform chemical bonds. Now, using a unique experimental approach, researchers at UC San Diego and the University of New Mexico have teased out the ...

Foreign Languages and Literatures (FLL) in the College of Arts & Sciences presents, "Colonizing Creatures: Animals & Empire in Modern East Asia," on Friday, Feb. 28 from 2 - 4:30 p.m. in the Ortega Hall Reading Room, 3rd floor. Guest speakers include ...

UNM will soon have much more computing power under its belt.  Enough to sequence the genomic data for thousands of people in New Mexico over the next several years.

The University of New Mexico World Language Expo brings the world to New Mexico and everyone’s invited, on Saturday, March 1 from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. in Ortega Hall on the UNM campus. The Language Expo brings hundreds of New Mexicans together to share ...

Bolivia, one of the poorest nations in the Americas, is currently experiencing the worst rainy seasons in decades, with disastrous floods and mudslides destroying roads and communities in the Amazon basin. Indigenous Tsimane (pronounced chi-MAH-nay) ...

The University of New Mexico Department of Anthropology just completed a major grant from the Andrew Mellon Foundation. Department chair Michael Graves said the department spent the last few years working with 23 graduate students