Latimer wins Hulsman Undergraduate Library Research Award

Patrick Latimer

The inaugural Jim and Mary Lois Hulsman Undergraduate Research Award, implemented specifically to recognize undergraduate research, announced that Astrophysics Junior Patrick Latimer won third place in the Advanced Researchers category, with his paper "’Water Fountain’ Masers in Proto-Planetary Nebulae”. Congratulations, Patrick! Read more.

Neil McFadden wins US DOE Graduate Student Research Award

Neil McFadden

Neil McFadden has been selected to receive the US Department of Energy Office of Science Graduate Student Research (SCGSR) award with his proposal "Light Yield Studies on Active Veto Schemes for a Tonne Scale 76Ge Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay Experiment" to pursue his PhD this summer at Los Alamos National Lab on experiments that will search for neutrino-less double-beta decay with germanium detectors.

Neil is a member of the UNM group (Boyd, Fields, Gibbons, Gold, Loomba and Quintana) which is part of the international Large Enriched Germanium Experiment for Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay (LEGEND) collaboration.

Read more about his award, and congratulations, Neil!

P&A Welcomes New Faculty Member Elizabeth Crosson

Elizabeth Crosson

Starting in September, Elizabeth Crosson will join the Department of Physics and Astronomy as an assistant professor in the Center for Quantum Information and Control. Crosson comes to UNM from Caltech Institute for Quantum Information and Matter where she has been a postdoctoral scholar since 2015.

Visit her website at elizabethcrosson.com to find out more. Welcome, Dr. Crosson!