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Congratulations to Grant Block on being awarded a National Science Foundation/United States Geological Survey Internship!

He will be working on building new capability in the Pylith modeling software …

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UNM Physics and Astronomy Adjunct Professor Emil Mottola is the American Physical Society's 2024 Division of Gravitational Physics Fellowship recipient, and has been elected a fellow of the American P…

University of New Mexico Department of Physics and Astronomy Graduate student Andrew Gentry was selected recently to receive the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science Graduate Student Research (…

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Associate Professor Victor Acosta has won a prestigious five-year, $1.25M Experimental Physicist Investigator award from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation to study precision measurements with nitr…

Adaptation to the harsh conditions of a geologic period of global glaciation may have sparked the development of multicellular life. (image: Michael Schiffer/Unsplash)

William Crockett (UNM Physics a…