Graduate Student Hijas Farook has been awarded a fellowship from the ATLAS Center to conduct research in particle physics instrumentation and education at the Brookhaven National Laboratory for 6 mont…
Quantum Technology harnesses the unique features of quantum mechanical systems for devices that …
UNM Physics major Jordan Hernandez presented a talk entitled Development of silicon tracking detectors for particle physics experiments at the 2023 National Conference on Undergraduate Research (NCUR2…
Recent alumnus Will Crockett won one of the very competitive NSF Graduate Research Fellowships with his proposal A Bottom-Up Approach to Modeling the Impact of Ocean Warming on Marine Microbial Commun…
On Saturday, April 15, the Department of Physics and Astronomy held UNM Physics Day 2023, an undergraduate research conference and open house event organized by students for students that included a …
Please join us in welcoming Yvonne Muñoz, the Department of Physics and Astronomy's new Fiscal and Administrative Tech. Yvonne will be handling purchase requests, travel requests, reimbursement r…
Grad student Sudhan Bhadade working on the cold-atom experimental platform in the Quantum Optics laboratory at UNM
Associate Professor of Physics and Astronomy Francisco Elohim Becerra has been award…
Astronomers in the UNM Physics and Astronomy department have partnered with National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) to organize two special sessions at the American Astronomical Society's semi-an…
Congratulations to our faculty who have been promoted or passed milestone reviews. What a lot of advancement this year!
Tonmoy Chakraborty, Ph.D., assistant professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at University of New Mexico, has received a five-year, $1.82 million National Institutes of Health (NIH) Maxi…
Distinguished Professor Greg Taylor escorted a group of UNM and Hillsdale College undergraduates to build new antennas at the Long Wavelength Array -- North Arm
In collaboration with physics students…
Physics and Astronomy graduate student Grant Block and Professor Mousumi Roy, in collaboration with colleagues at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks, have a paper Pressurizing magma within heterogene…
UNM hosted the 2023 Annular Enchanted Eclipse viewing party on Saturday, October 14th at Johnson field. Over 3,800 pairs of eclipse viewers were distributed. The event had science talks, demonstratio…
Graduate student Dominic Oddo won a 3 year, $150,000 NASA Future Investigators in NASA Earth and Space Science and Technology (FINESST) Astrophysics grant.
Unlike for other NASA grants,…
The University of New Mexico recently announced its new Quantum Photonics and Quantum Technology (QPAQT) graduate program, made possible by a $3 million grant from the National Science Foundatio…
December 2023 -- We are very excited that our Senior Machinist, Anthony Gravagne, won the 2023 Gerald May Outstanding Staff Award.
Anthony started working in the Machine Shop as a st…
P&A Welcomes Machinist Robert Chavez
June 24, 2024
Tara Drake receives NSF CAREER Award to study optical frequency combs
June 11, 2024
Josef Sorenson recognized by DOE's Science Graduate Student Research Program
May 8, 2024
New study finds evidence of an atmosphere on a rocky planet for the first time
May 8, 2024
Physics Day 2024
April 23, 2024
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