Elizabeth received the 2022 Graduate Instrumentation Research award to work on the Development of a Negative Ion Gas TPC to Observe the Migdal Effect.

The GIRA program aims to encourage, recognize, and facilitate greater involvement of physics graduate students in instrumentation development.

As part of the award, Elizabeth will receive a stipend renewable for up to 3 years and will give an invited talk at the upcoming CPAD workshop at Stony Brook University.

Read more about the award here. Congratulations Elizabeth!

Graduate Students "PUMP" up Undergraduates

Need help with your classes this fall? A grad student mentor can help you make sense of your assignments. Reach out today!

Read the UNM Newsroom article about this new offering.

Towards a New Campus Observatory

We want to make sure our educational, outreach, and research activities are preserved, expanded, and able to continue for a long time to come

The UNM Campus Observatory has initiated a crowdfunding campaign in an effort to raise funds for the planning of a new Campus Observatory. The current Campus Observatory was built in the 1950s and is now outdated among other concerns.

Read the UNM Newsroom article about the planning for this new facility.

Find out how to donate to our goal.

Post-Doc Job Opportunities at UNM Physics & Astronomy

We’re looking to fill the following post-doc positions:

• Exoplanetary science research with Diana Dragomir
• Theoretical quantum information science, part of the National Science Foundation's Focused Research Hub in Theoretical Physics (FRHTP)
• Optical imaging instrument development in the Chakraborty Lab
• Neutrino Physics Group
• Low frequency radio telescope operations at the Long Wavelength Array
• Radio astronomy/computing at the Long Wavelength Array