College of Arts & Sciences

In the latest podcast episode of It’s (Probably) Not Rocket Science, Spooky Folklore and the Psychology of Horror take center stage in a unique, spooky trip down memory lane that fuses the worlds of ghostly New Mexican folklore and the psychology of...

A study by Professor and Chair of the Department of Native American Studies, Tiffany S. Lee, and colleagues is making significant strides toward sustaining the Diné language and cultural heritage.  Her longitudinal study, titled, “Improving research to...

It was billed as an Enchanted Eclipse and on the morning of Saturday, Oct. 14, amateur and professional astronomers and celestial observers alike gathered by the thousands on UNM’s Johnson Field for a spectacular view of the annular eclipse that formed a...

John Truitt will receive the 2023 Robb Award at the Robb Trust's annual ¡Música del Corazón! Tenth Anniversary Celebration for his lifetime achievement in the field of music. The event will feature live performances by Lara Manzanares, Jordan Wax, Felix...

Me-muh-ry or mem-ry (memory), fa-muh-ly or fam-ly (family), ce-luh-ry or cel-ry (celery), and so on – there are different ways to pronounce words. Across languages, linguists spend a lot of time figuring out what it is about the way that we use...

Kylar Greene, a graduate student in the University of New Mexico’s Department of Physics and Astronomy, is among 60 students from across the nation selected by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) for the Office of Science Graduate Student Research...

¡Música del Corazón! will celebrate its 10th anniversary in November with a slate of favorite performers in the Nuevomexicano tradition. A pre-concert talk will feature scholars Carmella Scorcia Pacheco, Adolfo Estrada, and Enrique Lamadrid, a historian,...

The Research and Creative Works Leadership Awards were established in 2020 to honor recently promoted faculty who have accomplished outstanding research or creative works in their respective career stage.  This award was created in response to a...

A half-century ago, the Maxwell Museum of Anthropology produced Seven Families in Pueblo Pottery, an exhibit that not only recognized Pueblo pottery as art for the first time, but also represented its makers as artists, emphasizing generational...

UNM’s Department of Communication & Journalism (C&J) is now home to one of the first ever U.S. Statehouse Faculty Champions. This national recognition goes to C&J Professor in Practice Gwyneth Doland, and comes from the University of Vermont’s (UVM’s)...