In an effort to capitalize on the next wave of the quantum revolution, The University of New Mexico, along with partners including Sandia National Laboratories (SNL) and Los Alamos National Laboratory…

The Four Corners section of the American Physical Society organizes an annual meeting in the Four Corners region with a particular focus on opportunities for students to present their research, meet o…

Shohini Ghose received her PhD from UNM Physics in 2013 and has become a leader in quantum computing.

She has also become a leading advocate for women in science.

In 2023 she wrote a book entitled "He…

ThorLabs Mobile Photonics Lab had a successful visit! All photos by Alex Albrecht

UNM students, faculty, and staff, as well as Albuquerque Academy students were able to experience the ThorLabs Mobile …

The Rainforest Innovator Fellow is awarded to an exceptional UNM inventor by Rainforest Innovations. In giving this award to Prof. Diels, they highlighted his research into ultrashort laser pulse phen…

The $3 million 2026 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics went to three teams of scientists working on the Muon g-2 experiment, including most recently a Fermilab team that includes Research Assis…

Caption: An artist rendering of the system. Credit: Tedi Vick

Graduate student Ismael Mireles led a research team which published an article confirming three bodies orbiting the dynamic e…

Amilcar's prestigious Fellowship comes from DOE's Office of Science Graduate Student Research. He will spend a year at the Oak Ridge National Lab in Tennessee working on his project entitled "Synthesi…

Undergraduates Allison Shaver and Andrew Klein were both given ASSURE awards by the College of Arts & Sciences to pursue research projects with Assis…

After three decades of service to The University of New Mexico, Professor Richard Rand is retiring from the Department of Physics and Astronomy, concluding a distinguished career that included more th…

The Department of Physics and Astronomy is proud to announce that Tara Drake has been promoted to Associate Professor.

Prof. Drake studies the physical properties of materials that can be used to gene…

The Department of Physics and Astronomy is proud to announce that Darcy Barron has been promoted to Associate Professor.

Prof. Barron develops instrumentation to observe the cosmic microwave backgroun…

The Department of Physics and Astronomy is proud to announce that Diana Dragomir has been promoted to Associate Professor.

Prof. Dragomir studies planets around other stars in our galaxy, known as exo…

The Department of Physics and Astronomy is proud to announce that Tonmoy Chakraborty has been promoted to Associate Professor.

Prof. Chakraborty researches new imaging systems for biomedical applicati…

For the first time, NASA’s TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite) mission has identified a planet orbiting a distant star thanks to its warping of space-time. Unlike the star-hugging tran…

Byron Dieterle (1937-2026) passed away from heart complications on March 9th, 2026 while doing what he loved: riding his bike. His death came at the end of a decades-long progression of heart disease …