The College of Arts and Sciences offers bachelor of arts and bachelor of science degrees in a variety of subjects that relate to humanity's cultural, social and scientific achievements.

RESEARCH

Center for Southwest Research
http://elibrary.unm.edu/cswr/

The Center for Southwest Research is the University of New Mexico General Library's special collections department and UNM's resource center for the comparative and interdisciplinary study of New Mexico and the Southwest.

The New Mexico Historical Review publishes scholarly research on New Mexico and the greater Southwest including northern Mexico.

The Bainbridge Bunting Memorial Slide Library is a collection of over 300,000 black and white and color slides, photographs, and digital images illustrating the history of art and architecture from prehistoric times to the present.

The Center for Regional Studies promotes research, teaching and learning about New Mexico and the Southwest. Comparisons and relationships to other regions of the Americas, Canada and Spain are encouraged.

The Chaco Archives, a National Park Service program, is part of the Chaco Culture NHP Museum Collection, which documents the years of research at Chaco Culture National Historical Park.

The Spanish Colonial Research Center is a joint project of the National Park Service and the University of New Mexico. The SCRC is an affiliate program of the Center for Southwest Research.

SHRI's mission is to promote scholarly discourse, conduct teaching and research, and disseminate information concerning historical, contemporary, and emerging issues that impact Hispanic people and communities.

The History Department's research resource center for Southwest Studies. For more information, call (505) 277-7688.

Specializing in New Mexico and Southwestern titles.

EDUCATIONAL

Maxwell Museum of Anthropology
http://www.unm.edu/~maxwell/

The Maxwell Museum of Anthropology offers exhibits and programs relating to cultures around the world, with a special emphasis on the cultural heritage of the Southwest.

The Ortiz Center provides a gathering place where members of the academic community meet with their counterparts from diverse communities and cultures beyond the academy for mutual study, debate, and cultural expression and exchange.

Artistic Traditions of the Southwest exhibit, from September 7 to December 12, 2004.

Current exhibits include introductory displays on the nature of minerals and major groups of fossils, numerous outstanding mineral specimens representing the major mineral groups, gem minerals, Triassic and Paleocene-Eocene vertebrates, Miocene-Pleistocene elephants in New Mexico, Pennsylvanian and Permian marine fossils from around the state, orbicular rocks from around the world, and geological materials used in everyday life.

The museum has on display many fine samples of stony, stony iron, and iron meteorites from the Institute's collection, including one of the largest stone meteorites in the world, Norton County.  An important recent acquisition is a spectacular 1600 pound specimen of the Navajo iron meteorite which is on long-term loan from the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago.

The LodeStar Astronomy Center's observatory houses an impressive 16-inch telescope donated by Meade Instruments that, with the help of filtering lenses, provides safe daytime viewing of the Sun.

The AAI is committed to engaging artists, scholars, students, and educators in innovative programs and encourages individual and institutional collaborations for Teaching and Learning and Research and Creative Work and Community Projects.

Conceptions Southwest
http://www.unm.edu/~csw/

Conceptions Southwest and CSW3 are publications of the University of New Mexico Student Publications Board and serve as a showcase for the creative works of the University of New Mexico community.

The Latin American & Iberian Institute (LAII) administers UNM's interdisciplinary programs in Latin American Studies and supports the university's Latin American and Iberian activities in all of UNM's eleven schools and colleges. LAII is a designated National Resource Center for Latin America (US Dept of Education Title VI) in a consortium with New Mexico State University's Center for Latin America and Border Studies .

Natural Heritage New Mexico serves the people of New Mexico in their efforts to effectively manage and conserve these valuable biological resources. It supports high quality natural resource policy and decisions by providing knowledge, information, and education to government and business leaders, policy makers, natural resource managers, scientists, and private citizens in New Mexico.

This is a program designed for students who grew up in a Spanish-speaking community and consider Spanish as their heritage language; that is the language that their parents, grandparents, relatives, friends and neighbors speak.

Links for the English pre-law concentration, Native American studies, and multicultural literary studies.

Tamarind Institute is a center for fine art lithography that trains master printers, engages in teaching and research, and houses a professional collaborative studio for artists. Tamarind is recognized internationally for its contributions to the growth of contemporary printmaking around the world.

Writing the Southwest is a thirteen-part national radio documentary series that explores the literary landscape of a baker's dozen of the Southwest's finest writers.

RESOURCES

Taking advantage of the local southwestern expertise in information science, complexity theory, computer science, and various branches of physics, chemistry, mathematics, and engineering field, and building on existing enthusiasm and momentum to collaborate, “SQUINT” forms a new local network of universities, national laboratories, and industry.

The Consortium of the Americas for Interdisciplinary Science is a Category I Center of the College of Arts and Sciences of UNM that was established to encourage collaborations between Latin America and UNM in interdisciplinary science.

Archived collection of the talk radio show, Native America Calling.

NMEH supports projects and organizations that deal with topics ranging from local history and culture to international affairs.

American Indian Student Services provides cultural and academic programming for American Indian students attending the University of New Mexico in an effort to ensure their academic achievement and assist in the development of personal, cultural, and social success.

The mission of El Centro is to assist students in reaching their academic goals.To accomplish this, we advocate on behalf of the students, offer many culture-specific programs, and educate the campus community on the diverse issues that affect Raza students attending or wishing to attend UNM. All students are welcome!

UNM's student governance and links to campus events.

UNM's Associated Student Union's film center, which screens feature and independent films and hosts a student film festival.