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…

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…

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…

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

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…

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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…

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

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

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See the UNM Newsroom article: John C. Mather: A Loving Watch on his Universe

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…

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A particle discovered by the UNM Large Hadron Collider group, led by Dr. Sally Seidel, has been selected as the Editor's Highlight by the Physical Review. This work was part of the PhD efforts of grad…

"Excellent electronic transport from a cheaply synthesized disordered polymer"

David Emin and his experimentalist colleagues centered at Cambridge University addressed the Seebeck coefficients and tra…

Keith Lidke, PhD, explains his current research to Senator Heinrich in the Lidke Lab Future Faces of Physics

Senator Martin Heinrich visited UNM on November 3. He met with members of the New Mexico …

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…

Dr. Mafi and colleagues found a way to make optical fibers transmit images sharper than the best available commercial imaging fibres. This innovative approach was named one of the top-10 breakthroughs…

Optical Refrigeration Lab Tricks Getting Lower and Lower

New Mexico is known for low riders, but soon Dr. Sheik-Bahae's low temperature crystal laser cooling lab may be the low point of UNM's research…