The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has approved a joint grant of $2 million to increase the number of students pursuing associate and bachelor’s degrees in the humanities and to support the transfer of humanities students from Central New Mexico Community...

Excavation in progress at the rock shelter site of Lapa do Santo in Brazil, where an individual dating to approximately ~9,600 years ago was found. 

White Sands (N.M.) in the Pleistocene Epoch..

Geologists collecting rock samples of Ordovician limestones along coast of Anticosti Island.

The cave entrance where UNM scientists studied phreatic overgrowths on speleothems on the island of Mallorca in the western Mediterranean Sea.

UNM School of Architecture and Planning Associate Professor Tim B. Castillo is taking on a new role at the University to organize and direct initiatives in Santa Fe.  Interim Provost Richard L. Wood announced he appointed Castillo as UNM special...

This week on New Mexico in Focus, correspondent Laura Paskus presents this month’s segment of “Our Land: New Mexico’s Environmental Past, Present and Future.”  She sits down with Sen. Peter Wirth and Rep. Gail Armstrong to talk about proposed bills...