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Luis Flores Sanchez to present NCUR talk
March 10, 2025

Luis Flores Sanchez

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 pr…


Physics Day
February 25, 2025

2025 Physics Day

UNM Physics Day 2025 will be held on Saturday, April 19 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. and will feature a variety of events including poster presentations, thesis talks, and a plenary talk. It will be held fo…


Sad news: Mickey Odom Passes Away
January 29, 2025

Mickey Odom

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 …


Block wins NSF/USGS Award
November 18, 2024

Grant Block

Congratulations to Grant Block on being awarded a National Science Foundation/United States Geological Survey Internship!

He will be working on building new capability in the Pylith modeling software …


Emil Mottola Elected APS Fellow
October 15, 2024

Emil Mottola

UNM Physics and Astronomy Adjunct Professor Emil Mottola is the American Physical Society's 2024 Division of Gravitational Physics Fellowship recipient, and has been elected a fellow of the American P…


New Machinist Joins P&A
October 11, 2024

William Phipps

Please join us in welcoming William (Will) Phipps, Physics and Astronomy’s new Machinist!  Will is from Albuquerque and is currently attending CNM.  He will be graduating in December …

Gentry wins DOE SCGSR Award
October 1, 2024

Andrew Gentry

University of New Mexico Department of Physics and Astronomy Graduate student Andrew Gentry was selected recently to receive the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science Graduate Student Research (…


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