Robert Duncan has been selected to become the Gordon and Betty Moore Distinguished Scholar at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) for a fifteen month term, effective May 1, 2004.

The Gord…

We are absolutely desperate to recruit more judges for the regional fair in almost every category. I’m attaching a recruitment flyer that can be printed, copied, and distributed to anyone & ever…

Physics graduate student Buckner Creel has been elected 2004-2005 President of the UNM Graduate and Professional Student Association (GPSA).

He was also acknowledged as a new inductee in the 2004 edit…

UNM is co-hosting, with the Los Alamos National Laboratory, the National Radio Astronomy Observatory, and the Naval Research Laboratory, a scientific and technical workshop on “Science with Wave…

The U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) announced recently that 31 awards to universities, including the University of New Mexico, were awarded as part of the DoD’s Multidisciplinary University Res…

V.M. (Nitant) Kenkre, UNM professor of Physics and director of the Consortium of the Americas for Interdisciplinary Science, has been named UNM’s 50th Annual Research Lecturer, the highest honor…

After just over one year with P&A, our Department Administrator, Beth Walker, was recently nominated for UNM’s first annual Work+Life Manager/Supervisor Award.

This award recognizes managers and…

In its September newsletter (PDF, 128KB), The Center for High Performance Computing (HPC) welcomed Dr. Timothy Thomas as its new Deputy Director.

From page 2 of the newsletter:

“…I am plea…

Professor Steven Brueck has been elected a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). Dr. Brueck is being recognized “for fundamental contributions to the understa…

Each year the Optical Society of America (OSA) recognizes a few of its member scientists in the field of optical sciences whose research contributions have had a noteworthy impact in advancing the fie…

Professor Carlton Caves has been elected a fellow of the American Physical Society (APS). Dr. Caves is being recognized “for pioneering work on the role of quantum mechanics in the physics of in…