College of Arts & Sciences

On Jan. 14, over 75 investigators attended a multi-institution virtual workshop hosted by the University of New Mexico to develop a comprehensive research effort focused on drylands resilience. Support of drylands resilience on a regional scale is...

Two professors from The University of New Mexico, including Hua Guo and Wirt Wills, were elected recently by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) to the newest class of AAAS Fellows. The 2021 class of AAAS Fellows includes 564...

The Center for Regional Studies (CRS) welcomes Asa B. Stone as its Spring 2022 Tribal/Community College Research Scholar. Stone is a faculty member of the School of Communication, Humanities, and Social Sciences with Central New Mexico Community College...

Karen Collins, artist and Executive Director of the African American Miniature Museum, will be featured in the first of the Maxwell Museum of Anthropology’s public events of 2022 on Saturday, Feb. 26, at noon. The museum billed the online event as We...

University of New Mexico English Assistant Professor Nahir Otaño Gracia was recently awarded the 2022 Article Prize for her article Towards a decentered Global North Atlantic: Blackness in Saga af Tristram ok Ísodd.

With new director Kirsten Pai Buick at the helm, the Africana Studies program at The University of New Mexico is looking forward to a major leap this year. Buick, who is also a professor of Art History, Associate Dean of Equity and Excellence, and...

The Department of Anthropology at The University of New Mexico is celebrating Black History Month in February with a website page full of resources that include the history of Black History Month, Black scholar biographies, the African-American community...

Overcoming significant challenges, American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) communities enacted a swift, innovative, inclusive, and community-driven approach to rolling out the COVID-19 vaccination, and there’s a lot to be learned from their methods. A...

Researchers at The University of New Mexico (UNM) and University of Missouri (MU) have developed a new framework that they believe will help identify people previously overlooked for alcohol use disorder (AUD). The framework focuses on 13 mechanisms, or...

A new report from the UNM Department of Political Science shows New Mexico had its largest voter turnout in recent history during the 2020 General Election. The “2020 New Mexico Election Administration, Voter Security, and Election Reform Report'' was...