College of Arts & Sciences

Diana Northup, a visiting associate professor in The University of New Mexico’s Biology department, was recently featured in an episode of Alien Worlds, a new docufiction series streaming on Netflix for her cave...

Exceptionally hot and dry weather this summer has fueled dozens of wildfires across the western U.S., spewing smoke across the country and threatening to register yet another record-breaking year. More than a century of fire exclusion has created dense...

The University of New Mexico’s College of Arts and Sciences recently announced the promotion of five faculty to the rank of Distinguished Professor. The rank of Distinguished Professor is the highest title that UNM bestows upon its faculty. It is...

Cosmology is the study of the universe—how and when it began, how it moves and how fast, and how its forces interact with each other. It is the study of the balance between what we can’t see and what we can. Dr. Francis-Yan Cyr-Racine, assistant...

For the last 14 years University of New Mexico Distinguished Professor Barbara McCrady has led research studies that are cutting edge and at times life-changing that have been recognized across the United States and internationally, but she says that her...

U.S. Sen. Martin Heinrich (D-NM) visited the Office of Medical Investigator (OMI) at The University of New Mexico last week to see the work being done by forensic anthropologist Heather Edgar and her team to improve the identification of Native American...

During a recent exhibitions design class taught by professor Devorah Romanek, curator of exhibits at the Maxwell Museum of Anthropology at The University of New Mexico, the works of two photographers who chronicled life in New Mexico captured the...

A team of researchers from The University of New Mexico’s Museum of Southwestern Biology (MSB) conducted an inventory survey of the insects and other arthropods of White Sands National Monument, New Mexico, and sister park, Cuatrociengas Protected Area,...

Amid a risk of the Rio Grande going dry through Albuquerque this summer and growing threats to the state’s water supplies, The University of New Mexico has named Scott Verhines to be the next director of the UNM Water Resources Program. A New Mexico...

The basic definition for the Spanish language word querencia is a metaphysical concept taken from the verb querer, which means "to want” or “to love." But the reality of querencia is more complicated, more poetic and sentimental, seated in deep emotions...