2024 QU-REACH group with Dr. Susan Atlas, center

We are currently seeking applications for the 5th Annual Quantum Undergraduate Research Experience at CHTM (QU-REACH) program at UNM-Albuquerque this s…

It is with great sadness that we must announce that Principal Lecturer Emeritus Mickey Odom passed away on Wednesday, January 29, 2025, from cancer. 

Mickey was a valued Lecturer for us for …

UNM physics major Luis Flores Sanchez has been selected to present a talk at the National Counsel on Undergraduate Research annual meeting, which will be held in Pittsburgh in April 2025.

Luis will p…

The $3M Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics for 2025 was awarded to the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) for results on fundamental particle physics from its second run from 2015 to 2024.

The ATLAS …

Prabi Palni (Ph.D. 2012) now teaches at Goa University

The UNM Department of Physics and Astronomy is proud of our many alumni accomplishments over the years.

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Xiaobing Zhu is the first winner of the Sheik-Bahae Award for the best dissertation in optics.  The award is open to students in both the Physics and Optical Science & Engineering (OSE) degree pr…

Victor Acosta has been chosen by the College of Arts & Sciences as one of this year's Regents' Lecturers. Victor will receive a stipend for the next three years and will always keep the title of Regen…

Emeritus Professor John Panitz donated several original atom-probe exhibits from his museum as well as a collection of the late Erwin Wilhelm Müller’s research materials to the Penn State …

Research Assistant Professor Svende Braun has been named Co-convener of the B-Physics Weak Decays Working Group within the ATLAS Experiment at the Large Hadron Collider.

The ATLAS Experiment at CERN l…

Francis-Yan Cyr-Racine Promoted to Associate Professor; Huaiyu Duan Promoted to Professor

The Department of Physics and Astronomy is proud to announce that Francis-Y…

The University of New Mexico announces a significant addition to its academic leadership with the appointment of Robert “Bob” Ledoux as the new director of the Quantum New Mexico Institute

The University of New Mexico’s Department of Physics and Astronomy scored a rare scientific hat trick this summer as three faculty members received the National Science Foundation’s prest…

The Quantum Photonics and Quantum Technology (QPAQT) graduate program is entering its second successful year, hosted by The University of New Mexico’s Center for High Technology Materials (CHTM…