College of Arts & Sciences

Adjunct Professor Ian Maddieson, Department of Linguistics, has been named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). Election as an AAAS Fellow is an honor bestowned upon members by their peers. This year, 388 ...

Albuquerque Rescue Mission has been blessed by many students, and student organizations, over the years, who have been part of our success. The most recent is a group of communication students who collected items ...

Distinguished Professor of Anthropology Louise Lamphere received the Franz Boas Award for exemplary service to Anthropology recently from the American Anthropological Association. The award is presented annually by the AAA to its members whose careers ...

American Indian Student Services, at the UNM Sidekicks Mentorship Program, is participating in a food drive to benefit the Albuquerque Public Schools Title I Homeless Project as part of their Sidekicks Mentorship Program. Collected items will be ...

Researchers at the University of New Mexico in the Department of Biology are studying the rate and fitness effects of spontaneous mutations, a central area of study in evolution and biology. The research, enabled through a three-year, $750,000 ...

November is officially Native American Heritage Month across the country, and the University of New Mexico campus community is celebrating the rich culture and history in its own unique way.  Native American students at UNM are also finding ways to ...

Ann B. Stahl, professor and chair of the Department of Anthropology at the University of Victoria, Canada will present the Journal of Anthropological Research Distinguished Lecture on Thursday, Nov. 14, at 7:30 p.m. in the UNM Anthropology Lecture Hall

Jason Blankenship, a resident of Albuquerque, N.M., died Tuesday, Oct. 29 as a result of a tragic motorcycle accident. Born in Freeport, Texas on Dec. 18, 1969, Blankenship is survived by his parents James F. and Barbara Blankenship of Oyster Creek, ...

After following up on many of the social media reports regarding the Chelyabinsk meteoroid impact last February in Russia, scientists, including those at the University of New Mexico, contributed to present a comprehensive overview of what occurred ...

New research led by UNM Assistant Professor of Anthropology Sherry V. Nelson examines carbon and oxygen stable isotopes in the tooth enamel from a chimpanzee community to understand the environment of fossil apes and early humans. Nelson's research, “C