News Archives
March
Prasad Patent
April
Becerra Wins NSF Award
April 27, 2017
Pihlstrom Wins Advance Award
April 14, 2017
Nanoparticle Discovery
April 7, 2017
Ottino wins NSF Fellowship
April 5, 2017
Undergraduate student Greg Ottino won one of the very competitive NSF Graduate Research Fellowships with his proposal "Novel Machine Learning Techniques for Model Independent, Beyond the Standard Mode…
May
Moerner to speak at UNM
May 8, 2017
Loomba promoted to Professor
May 8, 2017
Loomba's research focuses on Extragalactic Astronomy, Particle Astrophysics, and Dark Mat…
Allahverdi co-organized XI conference
May 8, 2017
This conference was hosted by Texas A&M University in Corpus Christi, TX on May 22-26, 2017. It involved more than 80 particle theorists, experimentalists, cosmologists, and observational astronomers.…
Gravagne Wins Award
May 4, 2017
Grummer Wins Grad Research Award
May 4, 2017
June
Supermassive Black Holes Discovery
June 27, 2017
August
Great American Eclipse
August 21, 2017
By Andrew Fraknoi and Dennis Schatz
Total Eclipse
On Monday, August 21, 2017, a total eclipse of the Sun will be visible in the continental U.S. for the first time in almost 40 years. Remarkably, the…
October
Mafi elected OSA Fellow
October 16, 2017
Congratulations to our colleague Prof. Arash Mafi. He was elected as a Fellow of The Optical Society of America.
Founded in 1916, The Optical Society is the leading professional organization for scien…
Osinski selected for Grad Research Program
October 13, 2017
Grad student Jacek Osinski won U.S. Department of Energy Science Graduate Student Research funding for his project at Los Alamos National Laboratory, Beyond the WIMP Miracle.
The program goal is to pr…
Lewis wins NM Space Grant Scholarship
October 8, 2017
Megan Lewis was awarded the New Mexico Space Grant Graduate Research Scholarship for work toward her PhD on SiO masers in Asymptotic Giant Branch stars. The incidence and ratios of different iso…
Ward '00 on Nobel winning team
October 4, 2017
Did you see the announcement that the 2017 Nobel prize in physics was for gravity wave detection? Our own alumnus and Albuquerque native Robert Ward '00 is a Research Fellow on the team that made the …
November
Zundel wins Space Grant award
November 30, 2017
Lauren Zundel (BS Physics ’19) has been awarded the New Mexico Space Grant Undergraduate Research Scholarship. This award will help understand the optical response of arrays of nanostructures, w…
Glassman '92 wins Great Teacher Award
November 16, 2017
EDWARDSVILLE - The Southern Illinois University Edwardsville Alumni Association has selected Jack Glassman, PhD, as its 2017 Great Teacher Award recipient. The New York City native is a physics profes…
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November 16, 2017
Professor John Matthews, Research Assistant Professor Robert Lauer, and graduate student Zhixiang Ren, are members of the High-Altitude Water Cherenkov Gamma-Ray Observatory (HAWC) Collabor…
December
McFadden wins NM Space Grant Scholarship
December 12, 2017
Neil McFadden has been awarded the New Mexico Space Grant Graduate Research Scholarship to pursue his PhD on proposed tonne-scale experiments that will search for neutrino-less double-beta decay with …