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Block wins NSF/USGS Award
November 18, 2024

Grant Block

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 …


Emil Mottola Elected APS Fellow
October 15, 2024

Emil Mottola

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…


New Machinist Joins P&A
October 11, 2024

William Phipps

Please join us in welcoming William (Will) Phipps, Physics and Astronomy’s new Machinist!  Will is from Albuquerque and is currently attending CNM.  He will be graduating in December …

Gentry wins DOE SCGSR Award
October 1, 2024

Andrew Gentry

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 (…


Victor Acosta wins Moore Foundation Award
August 22, 2024

Victor Acosta

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…


Latest Research from Will Crockett '22
July 17, 2024

image courtesy Michael Schiffer

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…