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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 …

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

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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…

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 …

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Nature: A giant planet transiting a 3-Myr protostar with a misaligned disk

NASA: Discovery Alert: A Rare Glimpse of a Newborn Planet

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 …

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