College of Arts & Sciences

The UNM Nanoscience and Microsystems graduate program has been awarded their second highly competitive grant to provide fellowships for Graduate Assistance in Areas of National Need (GAANN). The announcement was made by Sen. Tom Udall.Many of the ...

The University of New Mexico Latin American Iberian Institute presents a lecture, reception and book signing for the publication, "Borderline Slavery: Mexico, the United States, and the Human Trade" (Ashgate Press, 2012), a volume co-edited by Susan ...

The University of New Mexico Maxwell Museum of Anthropology presents a new exhibit "Woven Stories: Navajo Weavers in a Changing World," Friday, Sept. 28 at 6 p.m. Come early and visit with curators and weavers in the gallery at 5:30 p.m.The combined ...

Judit Kadar, a visiting Fulbright fellow of American Studies at Eszterházy College in Eger, Hungary, is offering an eight week course for the second half of the fall semester. The course, "Going Indian/Native? Cultural Manifestations of In-Between-ness," ...

Science is still unsure about what makes up 96 percent of the universe. Join University of New Mexico Physics and Astronomy Professor Dinesh Loomba as he sheds some light on the dark matter phenomenon.Connect airs Thursday, Sept. 20 at 7 p.m. on New ...

Theda Skocpol, professor of government and sociology from Harvard University, presents, "Will Health Reform Survive and Flourish after 2012?, a public lecture, on Thursday, Sept. 20 from 7-9 p.m. at the Sheraton Hotel, Airport, Alvarado ...

Communication and collaboration can often be as difficult to organize in a large university as it is in establishing agreements between nations. At UNM, El Centro de la Raza, the Hispanic student support department; Chicano/Hispano/Mexicano Studies, the ...

Four faculty from the University of New Mexico Department of Sociology received accolades for their published works. Sharon Erickson Neptstad and Howard Waitzkin, recently won major national book awards; and Maria Velez and Christopher Lyons have an ...

In 2009, Gerald Vizenor, UNM Distinguished Professor of American Studies, was both a delegate and principal author of the first constitution to be ratified by a native group. The White Earth Nation of Anishinaabeg Natives of Minnesota ratified their new ...

Vince Clark's journey to speak at last weekend's TEDxABQ in Albuquerque started several years ago.It started with a father's love for his son, and his concern that his son wasn't receiving proper medical care, despite access he had to modern medicine and ...