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Women's History Month, March 2024
Posted: Mar 01, 2024 - 12:00pm
UNM celebrates Women's History Month, March 2024. Click on the red links below for more information. Scroll down to read about UNM organizations, events, scholars, the history of Women's History Month, research, news and organizations. UNM Wome...read more
Early Dispersal of Domestic Horses in the Great Plains and Northern Rockies wins AAAS 2024 Newcomb Cleveland Prize
Posted: Feb 22, 2024 - 12:00pm
An interdisciplinary team led by UNM Anthropology graduate Will Taylor (UNM PhD 2017, currently Assistant Professor and Curator of Archaeology at the University of Colorado Boulder) for the prestigious AAAS 2024 Newcomb Cleveland Prize for...read more
In Memoriam: Dr. Ana Steffen: A Legacy of Science Leadership
Posted: Feb 12, 2024 - 10:00am
Dr. Ana Steffen: A Legacy of Science Leadership Bandelier National Monument, Valles Caldera National Preserve On this International Day of Women and Girls in Science, we celebrate the curiosity, tenacity, and influence of women in...read more
Podcast: Amazonian Cosmopolitans Navigating a Shamanic Cosmos, Shifting Indigenous Policies, and Other Modern Projects with Dr. Suzanne Oakdale
Posted: Feb 09, 2024 - 12:00am
In Amazonian Cosmopolitans: Navigating a Shamanic Cosmos, Shifting Indigenous Policies, and Other Modern Projects (U Nebraska Press, 2022), Suzanne Oakdale focuses on the autobiographical accounts of two Brazilian Indigenous leade...read more
National Black History Month, February 2024
Posted: Feb 01, 2024 - 08:00am
UNM celebrates National Black History Month (also known as African American History Month), February 2024. Click on the red links below for more information. Scroll down to read about events, Black scholars, the history of Black History Month, ...read more
Undergraduate Anthropology Society Co-Presidents Featured in the College of Arts and Sciences Research Wins News
Posted: Jan 31, 2024 - 12:00pm
UNM Undergraduate Anthropology Society (UAS) co-presidents My Linh Lucero and Serena Smith were featured in a recent College of Arts and Sciences Research Wins Newsletter for their research projects. My Linh Lucero is a double major in A...read more
Nadia Neff Receives NSF Doctoral Dissertation Grant
Posted: Jan 04, 2024 - 12:00pm
Nadia Neff, PhD candidate in Archaeology, has been awarded a Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant from the National Science Foundation for her dissertation Advancing biocultural and molecular studies of diet and nutrition among tropical agri...read more
DNA from The Red Lady of El Miron Continues to Generate Research
Posted: Jan 02, 2024 - 12:00pm
A new research article CHALCOLITHIC/EARLY BRONZE AGE AND ADDITIONAL MAGDALENIAN RADIOCARBON DATES FOR EL MIRÓN CAVE (RAMALES DE LA VICTORIA, CANTABRIA, SPAIN) has been published in the prestigious journal ‘Radiocarbon’...read more
Jasmine Hernandez wins the First Runner-Up Prize at the Colloquium Juan Comas in Mexico City
Posted: Dec 05, 2023 - 12:00pm
Jasmine Hernandez was awarded the first runner-up prize at the Colloquium Juan Comas in Mexico City for her poster A HISTOLOGICAL INVESTIGATION ON THE INFLUENCE OF THE INTEROSSEOUS MEMBRANE ATTACHMENT AT THE ULNAR MIDSHAFT CORTEX. Abstrac...read more
National Native American Heritage Month, November 2023
Posted: Nov 01, 2023 - 12:00pm
UNM celebrates National Native American Heritage Month, November 2023. Click on the red links below for more information. Scroll down to read about UNM groups, events, Native American Heritage Month history, Native American scholars, research, news ...read more
Megan Cole Awarded the Student Prize at the Southwest Association of Biological Anthropologists Meeting
Posted: Oct 30, 2023 - 11:00am
Megan Cole, PhD candidate in Evolutionary Anthropology, was awarded the student prize for her talk,Trait-level Cortisol Predicts Gooming Partner Diversity in Wild Chimpanzees, at the Southwest Association of Biological Anthropologists meeting i...read more
Professor Emily Jones Receives a Research and Creative Works Leader Award
Posted: Oct 27, 2023 - 12:00pm
Professor Emily Jones has received a Research and Creative Works Leader Award from the UNM Provost. These awards were established in 2020 in response to guidance from the Faculty Senate Research Policy committee that called for recognition of extrao...read more
New LAII Grant will Support Language Studies, Global Learning Opportunities
Posted: Oct 27, 2023 - 11:00am
The Latin American & Iberian Institute (LAII) at The University of New Mexico has been awarded a Title VI Undergraduate International Studies and Foreign Language Grant from the U.S. Department of Education. UNM is one of only 13 institutions nation...read more
Demographic and Hormonal Evidence for Menopause in Wild Chimpanzees-
Posted: Oct 27, 2023 - 10:00am
In a new article published in Science magazine and featured in the New York Times, Melissa Emery Thompson and co-authors examine Demographic and Hormonal Evidence for Menopause in Wild Chimpanzees. Abstract Among mammals, post-reproductive life...read more