All Department News
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
Sleeping supermassive black holes awakened briefly by shredded stars — March 26, 2024
UNM OSE Program helped create optics ‘terrarium’ in N.M. — March 18, 2024
Visit the UNM Physics and Astronomy table at Lobo Day 2024 — February 28, 2024
Out of this world at Lobo Day 2024 — February 28, 2024
Optical Science and Engineering Program to celebrate 40th anniversary March 7-8 — February 27, 2024
Nobel Laureate John Mather explores JWST images, astronomy and astrology in latest podcast — February 27, 2024
UNM Optical Science & Engineering Program Celebrates 40 Years — February 19, 2024
Applications open for Qu-REACH summer quantum undergraduate research experience — February 14, 2024
Applications open for QU-REACH '24, quantum undergraduate research experience — February 13, 2024
The University of New Mexico launches The Quantum New Mexico Institute — January 22, 2024
Federal Physics Advisory Panel recommends groundbreaking strategies for U.S. investment in particle physics research — January 4, 2024
UNM launches innovative quantum photonics graduate program with $3 million NSF grant — December 27, 2023
Anthony Gravagne Wins 2023 Gerald May Outstanding Staff Award — December 13, 2023
Scientists investigate Socorro Magma Body to enhance volcanic understanding — December 6, 2023
Dominic Oddo awarded NASA FINESST Astrophysics Grant — November 27, 2023
University of New Mexico Physics and Astronomy students contribute to building telescopes for new LWA station — November 16, 2023
Kylar Greene recognized by DOE's Science Graduate Student Research Program — October 20, 2023
Grant Block Publishes Geophysical Research Paper — October 17, 2023
UNM Physics and Astronomy Annular Eclipse Viewing Party 2023 — October 14, 2023
The annular eclipse experience — October 6, 2023
Pick up a free pair of UNM Physics and Astronomy-branded eclipse glasses — October 3, 2023
Professor Sally Seidel appointed as Interim High Energy Physics Advisory Panel Chairperson — September 26, 2023
Long Wavelength Array Field Trip — September 16, 2023
Next Generation Very Large Array unites NRAO and UNM — September 11, 2023
Chakraborty Lab Receives $1.82 Million NIH R35 Award — August 23, 2023
UNM Department of Physics and Astronomy mourns the loss of Distinguished Professor Mansoor Sheik-Bahae — August 11, 2023
UNM Department of Physics and Astronomy receives $750,000 grant from NASA on research of exoplanets — August 4, 2023
Society for Optics and Photonics Student Chapter undergoes revitalization — July 20, 2023
Distinguished Professor Mansoor Sheik-Bahae, 1956-2023 — July 17, 2023
Congratulations to Our Colleague Ivan Deutsch on His Promotion to Distinguished Professor — July 2, 2023
P&A Celebrates Faculty Promotions and Review Milestones — July 1, 2023
P&A Welcomes Yvonne Muñoz, P&A's new Fiscal and Administrative Tech — June 30, 2023
P&A Welcomes New Accountant II Ciarra Johnson — June 30, 2023
Francisco Elohim Becerra Awarded Department of Defense Research Grant — June 9, 2023
Joey Sorenson awarded data research opportunity via the DOE-INFN Exchange Fellowship — June 3, 2023
Jordan Hernandez presents at NCUR2023 — May 17, 2023
The Department features heavily at the upcoming American Astronomical Society meeting in Albuquerque — May 17, 2023
Will Crockett Awarded National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program — May 15, 2023
Physics Day 2023 — May 15, 2023
Kelsey Adler Wins Goldwater Scholarship — April 3, 2023
UNM researcher studies control of the radiative heat transfer in a pair of rotating nanostructures — March 30, 2023
Arthur L. Day Prize and Lectureship recipient Dr. Lindy Elkins-Tanton presents talk on NASA's Psyche mission — February 24, 2023
Applications Now Open for the 3rd Annual Quantum Undergraduate Research Experience (QU-REACH) Program — February 2, 2023
Grad Student Hijas Farook Wins ATLAS Center Fellowship — January 5, 2023
Discovery of a new type of planet largely composed of water — December 15, 2022
P&A Welcomes New Teaching Lab Supervisor Hatem Babaa — December 13, 2022
Harjit Ahluwalia Named Sigma Xi Fellow — December 13, 2022
Four Corners APS Meeting Wrap Up — November 23, 2022
Fall Lecture Demo Show — November 3, 2022
Grad Student Elizabeth Tilly Receives Highly Competitive GIRA Award — October 19, 2022
Grad Student Soumyodipta Karmakar Receives LSSTC Data Science Fellowship Award — September 23, 2022
Mallory Harris wins IPAC Visiting Graduate Fellowship Award — September 23, 2022
Graduate Students "PUMP" up Undergraduates — September 19, 2022
Four Corners Meeting of the American Physical Society Celebrates 25th Anniversary — September 14, 2022
P&A Welcomes New Lecturer II Jose Sanchez — September 9, 2022
Working Towards a New Campus Observatory — September 6, 2022
Sally Seidel receives Fulbright Scholar award — September 2, 2022
Nitant Kenkre recognized for lifetime achievements — August 23, 2022
Kevin Cahill explains initial James Webb Space Telescope images — August 10, 2022
Andrew Landahl wins E.O. Lawrence award — July 14, 2022
P&A Welcomes New Research Assistant Professor Sheng Liu — July 12, 2022
Diana Dragomir selected for the 2022 Women in STEM awards — June 22, 2022
Tara Drake has been awarded the AFOSR Young Investigator Award — June 1, 2022
Research Experiences for Undergraduates' second year to be fully in-person — May 27, 2022
Easwar Anand Narayanan has been awarded the Chateaubriand Fellowship — May 24, 2022
Andrew Gentry wins NM Space Grant Scholarship — May 20, 2022
Ghostly 'mirror world' might be cause of cosmic controversy — May 19, 2022
2022 Convocation — May 14, 2022
UNM Physics Day set for April 16 — April 6, 2022
UNM physics professor wins award, seeks to expand research opportunities for students — April 5, 2022
P&A Welcomes Three New Staff Members — April 1, 2022
UNM's Department of Physics and Astronomy hosts Spring Lecture Demonstration Show — March 30, 2022
David Gutzler presents colloquium on new climate change report — March 4, 2022
UNM student accepted into prestigious research program — March 2, 2022
UNM's Darcy Barron named as a recipient of the 2022 Cottrell Scholar Awards — March 1, 2022
Jupiter-like planet discovered through TESS and citizen scientist collaboration — January 14, 2022
Manjavacas and colleagues investigate the cause of haziness in nineteenth century daguerreotype photography — January 4, 2022
Julie Morrison wins 2021 Gerald May Outstanding Staff Award — December 15, 2021
CARC Announces New Associate Director — November 5, 2021
UNM Astronomer Awarded NSF Grant to Improve Monitoring of the Cosmic Microwave Background — November 2, 2021
Research Experience for Undergraduates applications now being accepted — October 25, 2021
UNM's PAÍS building earns LEED Gold certification — October 18, 2021
P&A Welcomes New CQuIC Program Director, Dwight Zier — October 5, 2021
Hands on Workshop Brings Particle Physics to NM Science Teachers — September 30, 2021
UNM Researcher Awarded NSF Grants To Study Effects Of Magma On Continental Plates — August 28, 2021
UNM Ph.D. student and colleagues search for ‘sneaky’ pulsars — August 26, 2021
Viewing Sessions Resume at UNM Campus Observatory — August 26, 2021
New summer program in quantum technologies provides undergrad research opportunities — August 21, 2021
New PAÍS art installation welcomes back students — August 11, 2021
CQuIC Awarded $3 million from NSF for QIS national hub — August 9, 2021
Making sense of the cosmos with Francis-Yan Cyr-Racine — July 27, 2021
Faculty Promotions Announced — July 19, 2021
Gabe Shipley '15 Wins Sandia's 2022 Truman Fellowship — July 15, 2021
Newly Discovered 'Sub-Neptune' Exoplanet is Ripe for Investigation — June 10, 2021
Convocation 2021 Video Celebration — June 7, 2021
Mafi Named Interim Dean of College of Arts and Sciences — May 27, 2021
Three Long-Time P&A Staff Members Retire — May 12, 2021
Easwar Narayanan Wins Sigma Xi Outstanding Graduate Researcher Award — May 12, 2021
New advancement in Nanophotonics explains how collections of hot nanoparticles cool down — May 12, 2021
UNM Receives Award to Increase Computing Power for Radio Telescopes — March 15, 2021
UNM Hospital preparing to build a new tower — March 12, 2021
Alumnus’ gift benefits teaching and research in School of Engineering, Physics and Astronomy — March 2, 2021
First QuReach Research Experience for Undergrads Program — March 1, 2021
P&A Welcomes New Staff Member Chris Moroney — February 8, 2021
Carlton Caves Receives Micius Quantum Prize 2020 — December 11, 2020
Bringing Nuclear and Particle Physics to Goa University — December 3, 2020
Cyr-Racine Reviews Book by Nobel Prize Winner Peebles — December 1, 2020
Pablo Poggi Named Research Assistant Professor of Physics & Astronomy — November 24, 2020
Physicist investigates unexplained behavior of cell receptors — November 18, 2020
Gary Harrison Wins 2020 Gerald W. May Outstanding Staff Award — November 16, 2020
Alejandro Manjavacas Highlights Nanophotonics Research on Popular Podcast — November 3, 2020
2020 Four Corners (Virtual) Sectional Meeting of the APS — October 29, 2020
AGC New Mexico: PAÍS Wins Best Building $20 Million and Over — October 29, 2020
Data reveals evidence of molecular absorption in the atmosphere of a hot Neptune — October 26, 2020
Virtual Ribbon Cutting Ceremony and Tour — October 6, 2020
Laser Waveguide Technology Could Divert Lightning Strikes — October 4, 2020
Miyake Research Group Improves Quantum Computing Algorithms — September 8, 2020
Shohini Ghose (PhD 2003), Selected as Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada Chair for Women in Science and Engineering — September 7, 2020
New Advancement in Nanophotonics Has the Potential to Improve Light-based Biosensors — September 2, 2020
P&A Welcomes New Faculty Member Chakraborty — September 1, 2020
New $115 million Quantum Systems Accelerator to Pioneer Quantum Technologies For Discovery science — August 26, 2020
Please Welcome Our New Faculty for Fall 2020 — August 12, 2020
CHTM, Physics Labs Successfully Cool Glass with Lasers — August 12, 2020
Gruzdev Wins Competitive Newton Award — August 5, 2020
CQuIC Receives Award in New NSF Quantum Leaps Challenge Institute — July 28, 2020
UNM astronomers on team revealing the magnetic field of a spiral galaxy — July 21, 2020
Professor Trish Henning Takes on Role at NRAO — July 9, 2020
Research Assistant Professor Diana Dragomir Plays Key Role in Exoplanet Discovery — June 24, 2020
Two UNM Physics and Astronomy faculty selected for 2020 UNM Women in STEM awards — June 17, 2020
What's going on underneath volcanoes? — June 10, 2020
2020 Convocation - a video celebration — June 8, 2020
The University of New Mexico becomes IBM Q Hub’s first university member — May 27, 2020
Graduating Class of 2020 — May 10, 2020
Caves Elected to National Academy of Sciences — May 5, 2020
Prof. Acosta Receives Prestigious NSF CAREER Award — May 4, 2020
Professor Emeritus David Wolfe is Making A Difference in South Africa — April 21, 2020
Prof. Manjavacas Receives Prestigious NSF CAREER Award — April 8, 2020
KRQE Visits the New Physics, Astronomy, and Interdisciplinary Science Building — March 18, 2020
Brady Spears Wins Undergraduate Fellowship — March 4, 2020
Aaron Zimmerman, '08, Re-visits the Department — February 8, 2020
CHTM Director Arash Mafi honored — January 27, 2020
Physics and Astronomy Findings Featured in Research Year-in-Review — January 6, 2020