February 2021 -- Please welcome the new PAIS Facilities Operations Manager, Chris Moroney.  Chris moved into Gary Harrison's position, starting today. 

Chris will be responsib…

The National Science Foundation (NSF) has made an award to UNM and Long Island University for the project: A CPU/GPU Pipeline Framework for High Throughput Data Acquisition and Analysis. This award c…

UNM Hospital Preparing to Build a New Tower

Alumnus’ gift benefits teaching and research in School of Engineering, Physics and Astronomy

The QU-REACH Program is the first ten-week summer undergraduate research program run by the Center for High Technology Materials (CHTM) located on UNM’s Main Albuquerque campus.

The program wil…

Professor Mafi named College of Arts and Sciences interim dean

June 2021 -- This year several of our staff took long-deserved retirements. We already miss Sandra Ortiz, Gary Harrison, and Tom Hess very much. They have been fixtures in the department for decades!

The Large Hadron Collider is the world's largest and highest-energy particle collider and the largest machine in the world

P&A graduate student Easwar Narayanan has been selected fo…

Newly Discovered 'Sub-Neptune' Exoplanet is Ripe for Investigation

The COVID-19 pandemic prevented us from getting together for our usual convocation ceremony for the second year in a row.

So, like last year, we made a video to mark the occasion.

Hear about highligh…

Victor Acosta and Alejandro Manjavacas Promoted to Associate Professor; Mark Morgan-Tracy Promoted to Principal Lecturer

The Department of Physics and Astronomy is proud to announce that Victor Acost…

Our alumnus Gabriel "Gabe" Shipley, who received a B.A. in Physics and Astrophysics in 2015, was awarded the 2022 Truman Fellowship from the Sandia National Lab. Truman Fellows conduct …

UNM Researcher Awarded NSF Grants To Study Effects Of Magma On Continental Plates

Viewing Sessions Resume at UNM Campus Observatory

UNM Ph.D. Student and Colleagues Search for 'Sneaky' Pulsars

New PAÍS Art Installation Welcomes Back Students

Hands on Workshop Brings Particle Physics to NM Science Teachers

2023 Summer REU at UNM's Physics, Astronomy, and Interdisciplinary Sciences

UNM's PAÍS building earns LEED Gold certification

The Center for Quantum Information and Control (CQuIC) welcomes the new Program Director, Dwight Zier.  Dwight will help lead CQuIC into the future with the newly awarded National Science Foundat…

UNM Astronomer Awarded NSF Grant to Improve Monitoring of the Cosmic Microwave Background

We are very excited that our Department Administrator, Julie Morrison, was chosen as one of the winners of the 2021 Gerald May Outstanding Staff Awards by the UNM Staff Council.

Julie has done tremend…