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January

Ghose named TED Fellow
January 6, 2014

Shohini Ghose

Shohini Ghose, an associate physics professor at Wilfrid Laurier University, has been named a 2014 TED Fellow.

Ghose was chosen as an expert and innovator in her field, and joins 20 other internationa…


February

Deutsch Receives UNM Research Award
February 1, 2014

Ivan Deutsch

UNM Physics and Astronomy Department's Ivan Deutsch has been selected as the 59th Annual Research Lecturer.

The Annual Research Lecture award is one of the highest honors that the University of New Me…


March

Remembering Si Alpert
March 18, 2014

Seymour Alpert

Professor Seymour Samuel Alpert's pioneering work using laser light to study biological subjects was followed by years of research on the physics of biological energy storage and balance resulted in m…


April

Quantum Dot Tracking
April 29, 2014

Multi-color quantum dot tracking
Multi-color quantum dot tracking is used to detect several interactions between proteins that are moving with Brownian motion in the cell membrane.

One method that cells use to sense and respond to th…


LWA1 Detection
April 18, 2014

MSP
Coherently dedispersed average pulse profile (top) and strength as a function of time (bottom) for the 2 hr observation centered on 49 MHz averaged over ~8 MHz of bandwidth. The pulsar is detecta…

May

New World Record in Laser Cooling
May 30, 2014

Optical cooling crystals

Figure: Image of Yb:YLF crystals used for Optical Refrigeration. Inset top: cooling performance of a 10% Yb:YLF crystal reaching 93K after 7 minutes. Inset bottom: Energy level diagram of Yb3+. Pumpin…

June

Sheik-Bahae Promoted to Distinguished Professor
June 17, 2014

Mansoor Sheik-Bahae

The Department of Physics and Astronomy is proud to announce that Mansoor Sheik-Bahae has been promoted to Distinguished Professor.

Sheik-Bahae is the Director of the Sheik-Bahae Research Group, which…


Fields Promoted to Professor
June 9, 2014

Douglas Fields
The Department of Physics and Astronomy is proud to announce that Douglas Fields has been promoted to Full Professor.

He has worked at the University of New Mexico since 1995. His research focuses on h…

July

New Meson Discovery
July 3, 2014

Different quarks

Six of the particles in the Standard Model are quarks. Illustration courtesy of PBS Nova.

This week, the ATLAS Collaboration at the CERN Large Hadron Collider announced the first observation of a new…


August

LWA receives Award
August 28, 2014

Staff and students build an LWA1 antenna

Staff and students build an LWA1 antenna

Long Wavelength Array Receives Defense University Research Instrumentation Program (DURIP) Award

The radio astronomy group at UNM has just been awarded $530,00…


September

October

Caves Opinion Piece
October 17, 2014

Carlton Caves

Professor Caves has written an opinion piece for the American Physical Society's newsletter (APSNews) about what he calls high-impact-factor syndrome (HIFS), which is the practice of judging the resea…


November

Society of Physics Students Meeting
November 1, 2014

SPS logo
The Society of Physics Students
Future Faces of Physics
spsnational.org

The SPS meeting this past Saturday, November 1, 2014, was larger than any Zone 16 has had in two decades now, with 37 students i…