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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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…

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 (…

See the UNM Newsroom story: UNM's PAÍS building: a GO Bond success story

See the New Mexico Sun article: UNM's PAÍS building enhances STEM education through GO Bond funding

Associate Professor Victor Acosta has won a prestigious five-year, $1.25M Experimental Physicist Investigator award from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation to study precision measurements with nitr…