Jupiter-like planet discovered through TESS and citizen scientist collaboration

Manjavacas and colleagues investigate the cause of haziness in nineteenth century daguerreotype photography

UNM's Department of Physics and Astronomy hosts Spring Lecture Demonstration Show

David Gutzler presents colloquium on new climate change report

UNM student accepted into prestigious research program

UNM's Darcy Barron named as a recipient of the 2022 Cottrell Scholar Awards

UNM Physics Day set for April 16

UNM physics professor wins award, seeks to expand research opportunities for students

We recently welcomed three new members of the department staff!

Teaching Lab Coordinator

Anca-Monia Constantinescu is settling in as our new Advanced Teac…

The second year to be fully in person, students from all over the country are at the University of New Mexico as part of the Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) program in the Physics and A…

UNM Physics graduate student Easwar Anand Narayanan has been awarded the Chateaubriand Fellowship to participate in a research program offered by the Embassy of France.

Easwar will …

Sil…

Ghostly 'mirror world' might be cause of cosmic controversy

The COVID-19 pandemic prevented us from getting together for our usual convocation ceremony for two years, but we finally were able to celebrate our graduating class in the Physics, Astronomy and Int…

Diana Dragomir won a Women in STEM award from Advance at UNM to implement an initiative to improve retention rates in our undergrad degree programs.

Dragomir's project, Planets with Two Suns: Probing…

UNM Physics Assistant Professor Tara Drake was awarded an Air Force Research Laboratory's Young Investigator Research Program Grant in Fall 2021.

The title of the project is Visible Kerr-…

Andrew Landahl wins E.O. Lawrence award

Sheng Liu is a new Research Assistant Professor in the UNM Physics and Astronomy Department. Dr. Liu will be working with Drs. Keith Lidke and Tonmoy Chakraborty.

Sheng Liu received her BS degree in O…

Nitant Kenkre recognized for lifetime achievements

Kevin Cahill explains initial James Webb Space Telescope images

Theoretical Physics student Soumyodipta Karmakar is attending a Northwestern University workshop as part of a Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) Data Science Fellowship award.

The two year trainin…

Graduate Students "PUMP" up Undergraduates

Four Corners Meeting of the American Physical Society Celebrates 25th Anniversary

Please join us in welcoming Jose Sanchez, the Department of Physics and Astronomy's new Lecturer II. Jose started in August and will be teaching three undergraduate physics and/or astronomy courses ea…

Working Towards a New Campus Observatory

She will serve as visiting faculty at the University of Malta, where she will teach particle physics, consult with faculty on topics of shared interest at the Large Hadron Collider, and develop scient…

Elizabeth received the 2022 Graduate Instrumentation Research award to work on the Development of a Negative Ion Gas TPC to Observe the Migdal Effect.

The GIRA program aims to encourage, recognize, a…

The American Physical Society's 25th Anniversary annual Four Corners meeting was held Friday and Saturday, October 14 & 15, 2022 at UNM PAÍS.

According to UNM Physics and Astronomy Department Ch…

Last night in Regener Hall, a skilled team of Society for Physics student members presented another great edition of our demo show to an audience of about 100. The Tesla Coil and some other demos rea…

Discovery of a new type of planet largely composed of water

Please join us in welcoming Hatem Babaa, the Department of Physics and Astronomy's new Teaching Lab Supervisor. Hatem started in December and will be available in Regener Hall room 112.

Hatem earned h…

Emeritus Professor Harjit Ahluwalia was named a 2022 Sigma Xi Fellow for his distinguished accomplishments and dedication to the development of young investigators, as well as significant contribution…