PAIS construction progress
February 28, 2019
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News Archives
February
PAIS construction progress
New building naming rights
February 15, 2019
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UNMH addition
February 12, 2019
March
Spring Physics Demo Show
March 20, 2019
Thanks to UNM's Society of Physics Students Ivey, Caymen, Nic, Nik, Cameron Z., Cameron L., Dilys, Eric, Samantha, Christine, and Andreas, who demonstrated basic physics principles at the Demo Show o…
UNMH tower replacing PA building
March 7, 2019
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April
Putney Wins Goldwater Scholarship
April 29, 2019
Senior Eric Putney won the Barry Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Program award
The Goldwater Scholarship is a merit award set up by Congress in 1986 in honor of the late Senator Bar…
undergrad-honors
April 19, 2019
The Sigma Pi Sigma Honors Society Induction, Research Presentations, Thesis Talks, and Faculty Advisor Intros and Social Mixer on April 26, 2019 at Regener Hall. See the photo gallery
UNM Physics Day 2019
April 13, 2019
A big thank you to everyone who organized this year's Physics Day on Saturday, our showcase for undergraduate research. Alejandro Manjavacas, Dave Dunlap, the students of SPS, and everyone who gave l…
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April 12, 2019
An alumna from The University of New Mexico is part of an international team of scientists that were able to produce the first-ever image of a supermassive black hole revealed earlier this week. …
Zundel Wins Grad Fellowship
April 2, 2019
Congratulations to physics major Lauren Zundel, who has been awarded a DOE Computational Science Graduate Fellowship, administered through the Krell Institute.
This is a full, four-year fellowsh…
May
Murray Gell-Mann Obituary
May 24, 2019
We note with sadness the death of Murray Gell-Mann on May 24, 2019 in Santa Fe.
Gell-Mann held the unique rank of University Professor in the UNM Department of Physics and Astronomy for several yea…
Barron selected for Advance Award
May 6, 2019
Darcy Barron was awarded $10K for a Women in STEM award from Advance at UNM to implement an initiative to improve retention rates in our undergrad degree programs.
Advance is a five-year National Scie…
OSE Students Visit Capitol Hill
May 1, 2019
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New World Record in Laser Cooling
May 30, 2014
June
Faculty Promotions
June 27, 2019
Francisco Elohim Becerra-Chavez Promoted to Associate Professor; Ylva Pihlström and Rouzbeh Allahverdi Promoted to Professor
PA is in PAIS
June 25, 2019
We have moved into our new building, the Physics & Astronomy and Interdisciplinary Science building (PAÍS)!
We've begun teaching there and getting our research labs set up again.
The new b…
QIS
June 24, 2019
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Mafi and Allahverdi awarded for unique project
June 21, 2019
Professor Arash Mafi and Associate Professor Rouzbeh Allahverdi recently received an award of more than $580,000 from the Army Research Office for a project named Supersymmetry in Optics: B…
Daguerreotype findings
June 10, 2019
The Metropolitan Museum of Art (The Met) and The University of New Mexico today announced the groundbreaking findings of a two-year study of the plasmonic properties of daguerreotypes. Using atomic f…
Deutsch Receives APS Award
June 4, 2019
In April, 2019, the American Physical Society (APS) awarded Regents' Professor and CQuIC Director, Ivan Deutsch the APS Five Sigma Physicist Award, "a pin awarded to APS members who exhibit outstandin…
Summer
June 4, 2019
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Summer construction
June 4, 2019
July
Quantum Science Education Leaders
July 16, 2019
UNM was one of only 25 universities invited to participate at the White House Academic Roundtable on Quantum Information Science on May 31, 2019 in Washington, D.C. to discuss the “significant …
CIMAV Collaboration
July 3, 2019
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August
Q Sensor
August 8, 2019
A team of researchers led by Assistant Professor Victor Acosta recently published a new paper in the journal Science Advances detailing their work in developing a quantum sensor for determining the c…
September
Magnetic Micro-Calorimeter
September 19, 2019
This "Magnetic Micro-Calorimeter" is a device that can measure the energies of gamma rays with extreme accuracy.
It is important for Nuclear Safeguards and other applications.
Designed by Research …
Quark
September 7, 2019
In the trees overlooking Los Alamos National Lab, teachers listen to the guide’s description of some main laboratory features
Teachers from nine schools in the Albuquerque and Los Lunas …
October
2019 Fall Demo Night
October 31, 2019
The following Physics and Astronomy undergraduate students put on an excellent demo show in Regener Hall for a packed audience of about 300! The demos covered a wide range of basic physics concepts a…
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October 29, 2019
The entanglement structure of a large-scale quantum processor made of light.
Credit: Shota Yokoyama 2019
An international team of scientists from Australia, Japan and the United States, including our p…
SPS 2019
October 11, 2019
The UNM attendees gather for a photo at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
Five physics students took home awards for their research at the annual meeting of the Four Corners Section of the American…
Nanoparticles
October 9, 2019
October 9, 2019
Analysis of the field enhancement as a function of different geometrical parameters of the array.
Controlling the interactions between light and matter has been…
November
Magnetic Ropes
November 26, 2019
** An image of the "Whale Galaxy" (NGC 4631), made with the National Science Foundation's Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA), reveals hair-like filaments of the galaxy's magnetic field protruding a…
Mercury Transit
November 11, 2019
Monday, November 11, 2019 8 am - 11 am
On Monday, November 11, 2019 a rare celestial event occurred.
Mercury, the closest planet to the Sun, passed between the Sun and Earth, visibly crossing the sur…
