College of Arts & Sciences

UNM will soon be playing host to one of the largest gatherings this year of people interested in the science of happiness and what makes life worth living – also known as positive psychology. The annual meeting of the Western Positive Psychology...

A world-class graduate program at The University of New Mexico celebrates its 40th anniversary with two days of scheduled events and invited speakers on March 7 and 8. The Optical Science and Engineering (OSE) Program was launched in 1983 and has since...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) allows scientists to peer 13.5 billion years into the past and photograph the origins of the universe. In the short time it has been in space, its images have changed what we know about the birth of stars, how...

The Department of History, with sponsorships and support from the Center for the Southwest, the Feminist Research Institute, the Institute of American Indian Research, the Institute of Medieval Studies, the Latin American and Iberian Institute, Women,...

Two undergraduates in the Lobo Language Acquisition Lab at The University of New Mexico are studying linguistic bias and its effects and working to raise teachers’ awareness of it in the classroom. The LLA Lab teacher outreach team is currently...

The University of New Mexico is becoming a hub of Truman Scholar recognition.  UNM senior Jesus Sanchez, is one of 191 Truman Scholar finalists selected from this year’s pool of 709 nominations across over 285 institutions. Sanchez is scheduled to...

The Child Health Grand Challenge team at The University of New Mexico is undertaking a two-year study on child maltreatment incidence. The study, led by principal investigators Rebecca Girardet, professor of Pediatrics, and Gabriel Sanchez, professor of...

An interdisciplinary team of Indigenous and western scientists from around the globe recently received the 2024 Newcomb Cleveland Prize from the prestigious American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) for their research on the evolution of...

A team of researchers from The University of New Mexico’s Museum of Southwestern Biology (MSB) reported unexpectedly high levels of chemical contamination in wild birds and mammals at Holloman Air Force Base, near Alamogordo, N.M. in new research...

One University of New Mexico pioneer is earning another awe-inspiring accolade. Recent alumnus Emma Hotz has just been named a Luce Scholar–the first UNM student to be so.  The Luce Scholars Program is a nationally competitive fellowship program...