College of Arts & Sciences

New research conducted by scientists at The University of New Mexico suggests climate-driven tree mortality and fuel aridity are increasing fuel availability in forests leading to record-breaking wildfires in size, spread and plume formation. In North...

As a college freshman at Wayland Baptist University, Haleigh Gossett never expected her collegiate path would lead her to walking across the graduation stage at The University of New Mexico. Gossett, originally from New Mexico, made the decision to...

Ylva Pihlström, a professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy, recently was awarded a three-year, $564,000 grant from NASA to continue research that she started as part of her 2017 Women In STEM Award.  The work, set to begin in January 2022,...

The University of New Mexico now offers an online Master of Chicana and Chicano Studies – the first of its kind in the country. Chicana/o culture is ingrained into the lives of New Mexicans. The culture shows in NM food, architecture, music, and more....

Sandworms are a staple of sci-fi horror: giant, terrifying worms, with gaping lamprey-like maws, that live under the desert sand of Earth or a distant planet. Sandworms have horrified those who encounter them in the films Tremors, Beetlejuice, Star Wars,...

In just two short days, 60 students walked the pathways around The University of New Mexico passing out 300 stickers and 200 cards with positive messages of affirmation to complete strangers – not part of a class assignment – just a friendly gesture to...

The UNM Undergraduate Pipeline Network (UPN), a program which allows students to explore their interests in research and health sciences, is seeking applications for the upcoming summer. The research project provides students with essential skills needed...

University of New Mexico Associate Professor Brady Horn (economics) alongside his co-authors were recently honored with the Georgescu-Roegen Prize from the Southern Economic Association (SEA) for their work. The Georgescu-Roegen Prize is an award given...

Researchers from The University of New Mexico and California Polytechnic University find increased employment, especially in manufacturing, following the opening of legal recreational cannabis dispensaries. They found no evidence of declines in worker...

Every year, African lungfish survive to the dry seasons in Africa by creating a cocoon that allows them to live on land for months or even years, until water returns following long periods of heat and drought. This cocoon, in which the lungfish is...