News from the Department

2023

• UNM Physics Day set for April 15 – 2023-April-15
• UNM Spring Physics Demo Show set for Wednesday, April 5 – 2023-April-05
• Arthur L. Day Prize and Lectureship recipient Dr. Lindy Elkins-Tanton presents talk on NASA's Psyche mission – 2023-February-24
• Applications Now Open for the 3rd Annual Quantum Undergraduate Research Experience (QU-REACH) Program – 2023-February-02
• Grad Student Hijas Farook Wins ATLAS Center Fellowship – 2023-January-05

2022

• Discovery of a new type of planet largely composed of water – 2022-December-15
• P&A Welcomes New Teaching Lab Supervisor Hatem Babaa – 2022-December-13
• Harjit Ahluwalia Named Sigma Xi Fellow – 2022-December-13
• Four Corners APS Meeting Wrap Up – 2022-November-23
• Fall Lecture Demo Show – 2022-November-03
• Grad Student Elizabeth Tilly Receives Highly Competitive GIRA Award – 2022-October-19
• P&A Welcomes New Academics Coordinator John Simmons – 2022-October-07
• Grad Student Soumyodipta Karmakar Receives LSSTC Data Science Fellowship Award – 2022-September-23
• Mallory Harris wins IPAC Visiting Graduate Fellowship Award – 2022-September-23
• Graduate Students "PUMP" up Undergraduates – 2022-September-19
• Four Corners Meeting of the American Physical Society Celebrates 25th Anniversary – 2022-September-14
• P&A Welcomes New Lecturer II Jose Sanchez – 2022-September-9
• Working Towards a New Campus Observatory – 2022-September-6
• Sally Seidel receives Fulbright Scholar award – 2022-September-2
• Nitant Kenkre recognized for lifetime achievements – 2022-August-23
• Kevin Cahill explains initial James Webb Space Telescope images – 2022-August-10
• Andrew Landahl wins E.O. Lawrence award – 2022-July-14
• P&A Welcomes New Research Assistant Professor Sheng Liu – 2022-July-12
• Diana Dragomir was selected for the 2022 Women in STEM award – 2022-June-22
• Tara Drake has been awarded the AFOSR Young Investigator Award – 2022-June-01
• Research Experiences for Undergraduates' second year to be fully in-person – 2022-May-27
• Easwar Anand Narayanan has been awarded the Chateaubriand Fellowship – 2022-May-24
• Andrew Gentry wins NM Space Grant Scholarship – 2022-May-20
• Ghostly 'mirror world' might be cause of cosmic controversy – 2022-May-19
• Convocation – 2022-May-14
• UNM Physics Day set for April 16 – 2022-April-06
• UNM physics professor wins award, seeks to expand research opportunities for students – 2022-April-05
• P&A Welcomes Three New Staff Members – 2022-April-01
• UNM's Department of Physics and Astronomy hosts Spring Lecture Demonstration Show – 2022-March-30
• David Gutzler presents colloquium on new climate change report – 2022-March-04
• UNM student accepted into prestigious research program – 2022-March-03
• UNM's Darcy Barron named as a recipient of the 2022 Cottrell Scholar Awards – 2022-March-01
• Jupiter-like planet discovered through TESS and citizen scientist collaboration – 2022-January-14
• Manjavacas and colleagues investigate the cause of haziness in nineteenth century daguerreotype photography – 2022-January-04

2021

• Julie Morrison wins 2021 Gerald May Outstanding Staff Award – 2021-December-15
• CARC Announces New Associate Director – 2021-November-05
• UNM Astronomer Awarded NSF Grant to Improve Monitoring of the Cosmic Microwave Background – 2021-November-03
• Research Experience for Undergraduates applications now being accepted – 2021-October-25
• UNM's PAÍS building earns LEED Gold certification – 2021-October-18
• P&A Welcomes New CQuIC Program Director, Dwight Zier – 2021-October-05
• Hands on Workshop Brings Particle Physics to NM Science Teachers – 2021-September-30
• NRAO Names New Assistant Director For New Mexico Operations – 2021-August-30
• UNM Researcher Awarded NSF Grants To Study Effects Of Magma On Continental Plates – 2021-August-28
• Postdoc Opening in High Performance Computing with the Long Wavelength Array and BiFrost – 2021-August-26
• Viewing Sessions Resume at UNM Campus Observatory – 2021-August-26
• UNM Ph.D. Student and Colleagues Search for 'Sneaky' Pulsars – 2021-August-26
• New Summer Program in Quantum Technologies Provides Undergrad Research Opportunities – 2021-August-21
• New PAÍS Art Installation Welcomes Back Students – 2021-August-11
• CQuIC Awarded $3 million from NSF for QIS national hub – 2021-August-09
• Making Sense of the Cosmos – 2021-July-27
• Faculty Promotions Announced – 2021-July-19
• Gabe Shipley '15 Wins Sandia's 2022 Truman Fellowship – 2021-July-15
• Newly Discovered 'Sub-Neptune' Exoplanet is Ripe for Investigation – 2021-June-10
• Convocation 2021 Video Celebration – 2020-June-07
• Three Long-Time P&A Staff Members Retire – 2021-May-12
• Mafi Named Interim Dean of College of Arts and Sciences – 2021-May-27
• Easwar Narayanan Wins Sigma Xi Outstanding Graduate Researcher Award – 2021-May-12
• New Advancement in Nanophotonics Explains How Collections of Hot Nanoparticles Cool Down – 2021-May-12
• UNM Receives Award to Increase Computing Power for Radio Telescopes – 2021-March-15
• UNM Hospital Preparing to Build a New Tower – 2021-March-15
• Alumnus' Gift Benefits Teaching and Research in School of Engineering, Physics and Astronomy – 2021-March-03
• New Quantum Research program for Undergraduates (QU-REACH) – 2021-March-01
• P&A Welcomes New Staff Member Chris Moroney – 2021-February-08

2020

• Carlton Caves Receives Micius Quantum Prize 2020 – 2020-December-11
• Bringing Nuclear and Particle Physics to Goa University – 2020-December-03
• Cyr-Racine Reviews Book by Nobel Prize Winner Peebles – 2020-December-01
• Pablo Poggi Named Research Assistant Professor of Physics & Astronomy – 2020-November-24
• Associate Professor Jim Thomas Investigates Mysterious Biophysics Behavior – 2020-November-18
• Gary Harrison Wins Gerald W. May Outstanding Staff Award – 2020-November-16
• Alejandro Manjavacas Highlights Nanophotonics Research on Popular Podcast – 2020-November-3
• AGC New Mexico: PAÍS Wins Best Building $20 Million and Over – 2020-October-29
• Andrew Forbes and Anupam Mitra Win Outstanding Student Talks Award at Four Corners APS Meeting – 2020-October-29
• Assistant Professor Diana Dragomir leads team exploring rare hot Neptune exoplanet – 2020-October-26
• Alexandre Mills Recognized by DOE's Science Graduate Student Research Program – 2020-October-9
• Virtual Ribbon Cutting Ceremony and Tour – 2020-October-06
• Laser Waveguide Technology Could Divert Lightning Strikes – 2020-October-4
• Miyake Research Group Improves Quantum Computing Algorithms – 2020-September-8
• Shohini Ghose (PhD 2003), Selected as Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada Chair for Women in Science and Engineering – 2020-September-7
• Faculty Receive NSF EAGER Awards – 2020-September-2
• New Advancement in Nanophotonics Has the Potential to Improve Light-based Biosensors – 2020-September-2
• P&A Welcomes New Faculty Member Chakraborty – 2020-September-1
• New $115 million Quantum Systems Accelerator to Pioneer Quantum Technologies For Discovery science – 2020-August-26
• CHTM, Physics Labs Successfully Cool Glass with Lasers – 2020-August-12
• Please Welcome Our New Faculty for Fall 2020 – 2020-August-12
• Gruzdev Wins Competitive Newton Award – 2020-August-05
• CQuIC Receives Award in New NSF Quantum Leaps Challenge Institute – 2020-July-28
• Graduate Student Tim Braun and Professor Rand on Team Revealing the Magnetic Field of a Spiral Galaxy –2020-July-21
• Professor Trish Henning Takes on Role at NRAO – 2020-July-09
• Research Assistant Professor Diana Dragomir Plays Key Role in Exoplanet Discovery – 2020-June-24
• Professors Drake and Roy Selected for 2020 UNM Women in STEM awards – 2020-June-17
• Kate Cosburn Uses Computer Modeling to Understand Volcano Shapes – 2020-June-10
• Convocation 2020 Video Celebration – 2020-June-08
• The University of New Mexico Becomes IBM Q Hub's First University Member – 2020-May-27
• Graduating Class of 2020 – 2020-May-10
• Caves Elected to National Academy of Sciences – 2020-May-05
• Prof. Acosta Receives Prestigious NSF CAREER Award – 2020-May-04
• Professor Emeritus David Wolfe is Making A Difference in South Africa – 2020-April-21
• Prof. Manjavacas Receives Prestigious NSF CAREER Award – 2020-April-08
• KRQE Visits the New Physics, Astronomy, and Interdisciplinary Science Building – 2020-March-18
• Brady Spears Wins Undergraduate Fellowship – 2020-March-04
• Aaron Zimmerman, '08, Re-visits the Department – 2020-February-08
• CHTM Director Arash Mafi honored – 2020-January-27
• The Quantum Information Edge Launches to Accelerate Quantum Computing R&D for Breakthrough Science – 2020-January-09
• Physics and Astronomy Findings Featured in Research Year-in-Review – 2020-January-06

2019

• International team of astronomers discovers giant magnetic ropes in a galaxy's halo – 2019-November-26
• Transit of Mercury – 2019-November-11
• Halloween-Themed Annual Physics Fall Lecture Demonstration Show Delights Local Students – 2019-October-31
• Generation of time-domain-multiplexed two-dimensional cluster state – 2019-October-29
• UNM Physics Students Win Big at Conference – 2019-October-11
• Nanoscale Manipulation of Light Leads to Exciting New Advancement – 2019-October-09
• Steven Boyd's Lab Develops Magnetic Micro-Calorimeter – 2019-September-19
• UNM QuarkNet Sponsors Los Alamos STEM Outreach Event – 2019-September-07
• UNM Team Develops Quantum Sensor Technology – 2019-August-08
• UNM Leading the Country in Quantum Science Education – 2019-July-16
• CHTM Signs International Collaborative Research Agreement with CIMAV – 2019-July-03
• Becerra-Chavez Promoted to Associate Professor; Pihlström and Allahverdi Promoted to Professor – 2019-June-27
• Physics & Astronomy and Interdisciplinary Science (PAÍS) Building Construction – 2019-June-25
• UNM Paves the Road Into the Future for Quantum Information Science – 2019-June-24
• Professors Mafi and Allahverdi Get Award for Unique Project – 2019-June-21
• Deutsch Receives APS Five Sigma Physicist Award – 2019-June-04
• Summer Construction Projects at UNM – 2019-June-04
• Trailblazing Findings of Daguerreotype Properties Presented in Research by the Metropolitan Museum of Art & UNM – 2019-June-10
• Murray Gell-Mann, UNM University Professor, is Dead at 89 – 2019-May-24
• Darcy Barron Wins Advance at UNM 2019 Women in STEM Award – 2019-May-06
• SE Students Luke Horstman and Kaleb Campbell Join OSA's Capitol Hill Visit – 2019-May-01
• Eric Putney Wins Goldwater Scholarship – 2019-April-29
• Undergraduate Honors Thesis Presentations and Sigma Pi Sigma Induction – 2019-April-26
• UNM Physics Day – 2019-April-13
• Alumna Raquel Fraga Encinas Was on the Team Which Produced the First Supermassive Black Hole Image – 2019-April-12
• Zundel Wins Graduate Studies scholarship – 2019-April-02
• Spring 2019 Lecture Demo Show – 2019-March-20
• New UNMH Tower Could Replace Old Physics Building – 2019-March-08
• Progress Continues on PAÍS Building – 2019-February-28
• Your Name Could Go Here: UNM Offers Millions of Dollars in Naming Rights For New Science Building – 2019-February-15
• Our Neighbor, UNM Hospital, Has Plans for the Existing Physics Location – 2019-February-12
• PAÍS Construction Halfway Done! See How You Can Get Your Name on the New Physics & Astronomy and Interdisciplinary Science Building – 2019-February-08
• The New Mexico State Legislature Honored Physics Undergrad Lauren Zundel For Her Outstanding Contributions to New Mexico – 2019-February-04
  
• Department Chair Changes – 2019-January-02

2018

• UNM Society of Physics Students Chapter Receives Outstanding Chapter Award – 2018-December-11
• Physics and Astronomy Department Featured in UNM's State of Minds Video – 2018-November-30
• Fall Lecture Demonstration Show – 018-October-25
• Four Corners American Physical Society Meeting – 2018-October-22
• UNM's Society of Physics Students and Faculty Will Illustrate Basic Principles in Mechanics, Optics, Electricity and Magnetism For the Public – 2018-October-19
• UNM to Celebrate PAÍS With Beam Raising Ceremony – 2018-October-11
• UNM Receives $750,000 NSF EQuIP Award for Quantum Information Processing – 2018-October-09
• New ATLAS Result of Ultra-Rare B-meson Decay to Muon Pair– 2018-October-09
• UNM Physics Professor Sally Seidel Featured in Sigma Xi Distinguished Lectureship article – 2018-September-25
• New Astronomy and Physics Professor Will Continue Cosmic Microwave Background Research at UNM – 2018-September-05
• Dr. Elizabeth Crosson Looks Forward to Bringing her Research to UNM in Fall 2018 – 2018-September-05
• UNM to Participate in $15 Million NSF Program to Create First Practical Quantum Computer – 2018-August-14
• UNM Physics and Astronomy Research Experiences for Undergraduates Program Wrap Up – 2018-August-13
• Lidke, Mafi Promoted to Professor – 2018-August-10
• Lidke Lab Receives New Department of Energy Research Funding – 2018-July-31
• Sheik-Bahae's Laser Cooling Paper Gains Outsize Attention – 2018-July-31
• P&A Welcomes New Faculty Member Diana Dragomir – 2018-July-25
• Ivan Deutsch Appointed as CQuIC Director – 2018-July-02
• Akimasa Miyake Promoted to Associate Professor – 2018-June-28
• DiMario, Becerra-Chavez Publish in Physical Review Letters – 2018-June-22
• Miyake, Miller Publish Quantum Computation Paper – 2018-June-22
• Miller Wins Chair's Best Dissertation in Physics Award – 2018-June-22
• P&A Welcomes New Faculty Member Francis-Yan Cyr-Racine – 2018-June-21
• First UNM Physics and Astronomy Research Experiences for Undergraduates Cohort – 2018-June-1
• Congratulations to Our Colleague Greg Taylor on His Promotion to Distinguished Professor – 2018-May-08
• New UNM Graduate Noah Michelsohn Heads to NASA – 2018-May-10
• UNM Chapter of Sigma Xi Awards to P&A – 2018-May-10
• Photos From the QuarkNet@UNM VLA and LWA Tour – 2018-May-08
• P&A Welcomes New Faculty Member Darcy Barron – 2018-May-08
• P&A Welcomes New Faculty Member Elizabeth Crosson – 2018-April-12
• UNM Physics Day 2018 a Huge Student Success – 2018-April-12
• Lauren Zundel Wins Goldwater Scholarship – 2018-April-6
• Patrick Latimer Wins Hulsman Undergraduate Library Research Award – 2018-March-31
• Neil McFadden Wins US DOE Graduate Student Research Award – 2018-March-26
• Aidan Grummer Wins US DOE Graduate Student Research Award – 2018-March-26
• Spring Lecture Demonstration Show – 2018-March-21
• PAÍS Groundbreaking Ceremony – 2018-March-20
• Mafi Named Center for High Technology Materials Director – 2018-February-8
• Manjavacas’s Research Group Publishes "Hybridization of Lattice Resonances" in ACS Nano – 2018-February-05
• Becerra Chavez Publishes Low Power Light Article in Nature Partner Journals – 2018-January-26
• Kat Cosburn Wins American Geophysical Union Outstanding Student Paper Award – 2018-January-30

2017

• Neil McFadden Wins NM Space Grant Scholarship – 2017-December-12
• UNM Astronomy Graduate Student Receives Research Award from the U.S. Department of Energy – 2017-December-1
• Lauren Zundel Wins NM Space Grant Scholarship – 2017-November-30
• Alumnus Jack Glassman Receives 2017 Great Teacher Award – 2017-November-16
• High-Altitude Observatory Sheds Light on Origin of Excess Anti-Matter – 2017-November-16
• Prof. Mafi Elected 2018 Optical Society of America Fellow – 2017-October-16
• UNM Grad Student Osinski Selected for Office of Science Graduate Student Research Program – 2017-October-13
• Megan Lewis Wins NM Space Grant Scholarship – 2017-October-08
• Robert Ward '00 a Research Fellow on Nobel Prize-Winning Team – 2017-October-04
• The Great American Eclipse of 2017 – 2017-August-21
• Groundbreaking Discovery of Orbiting Supermassive Black Holes – 2017-June-27
• Prof. Allahverdi Co-Organized XI International Conference on Interconnections between Particle Physics and Cosmology – 2017-May-10
• Congratulations to our Colleague Dinesh Loomba on His Promotion to Full Professor – 2017-May-08
• 2014 Nobel Laureate to Speak Thursday at UNM – 2017-May-08
• Aidan Grummer (Ph.D. Advisor Prof. Seidel) Won the 2017 Excellence in Graduate Research Award – 2017-May-04
• Lead Machinist Anthony Gravagne Won the 2017 Sigma Xi Noteworthy Technical Support Person Award – 2017-May-04
• Dr. Elohim Becerra Wins NSF Career Award – 2017-April-27
• Ylva Pihlström Wins Advance at UNM 2017 Women in STEM Award – 2017-April-14
• Manjavacas and Team Discover Strange Forces Acting on Nanoparticles – 2017-April-10
• Greg Ottino Wins NSF Graduate Research Fellowship – 2017-April-5
• Sudhakar Prasad Recognized for US Patent – 2017-March-29

2016

• Rouzbeh Allahverdi Chosen for APS Journal Award – 2016-December-09
• Voters Show Support for UNM and Institutions Across the State – 2016-November-09
• CQuIC Director Caves Goes to the White House – 2016-October-24
• What Does UNM Hope to Spend $27 Million Worth of Bond Money On? – 2016-November-2
• Assistant Professor Alejandro Manjavacas Receives Award From Royal Spanish Society of Physics – 2016-November-1
• Physics Professor Developing Super-Resolution Microscopy Techniques – 2016-October-27
• Andrew Landahl Elected to Fellow of the American Physical Society – 2016-October-24
• UNM Now a Research Hub for Quantum Computing, Theoretical Physics – 2016-October-24
• Millions in State Bonds on New Mexico Ballot– 2016-October-20
• UNM Technology Playing Crucial Role in Large Hadron Collider Discoveries – 2016-October-13
• Bond C Would Impact Higher Education Across New Mexico – 2016-October-12
• Pioneers in Quantum Optics and Quantum Information Science: Celebration of the Academic Life of Carlton M. Caves – 2016-October-14
• Center for Quantum Information and Control Receives Multi-million Dollar Award – 2016-October-03
• New Facility Will Help UNM Researchers and Students Change the World – 2016-September-29
• Professor Allahverdi Co-Organized and Chaired "Beyond the WIMP Paradigm" Mini-Workshop – 2016-August-24
• Physicists Reach Lowest Temperature Ever Recorded in Solids Using Laser Cooling – 2016-August-2
• Gary Herling Obituary – 2016-July-24
• Face-lifts Set Across UNM campus – 2016-July-11
• Professor Duan Promoted to Associate Professor – 2016-June-23
• Henning Named Interim Associate Vice President for Research – 2016-June-16
• Portable Acytelene Laser Developed by UNM-KSU team – 2016-June-14
• Meteor Seen Over Skies in the Southwest – 2016-June-4
• Well-known Cat Family Says Goodbye to Their Fur-miliar Home on Campus 2016-May-31
• First of its Kind Research Sheds Light on Mysterious Fireballs – 2016-May-31
• UNM to Begin $180M Worth of Building Construction on Campus – 2016-May-19
• Professors Sheik-Bahae and Mafi Win $7.5M Department of Defense grant – 2016-April-12
• HAWC: the High-Altitude Water Cherenkov Observatory – 2016-April-18
• UNM Selects Architects to Design Physics & Astronomy Interdisciplinary Science (PAIS)– 2016-March-22
• Alumnus Robert Ward '00 Part of Team That Detects Gravitational Waves – 2016-February-23
• Professor Trish Henning Part of International Team That Discovers Hidden Galaxies – 2016-February-10

2015

• UNM Receives "Chapter of Excellence" Award from International Honors Society – 2015-December-11
• International Year of Light Video Highlights – 2015-December-10
• Faculty Trip to Build on UNM's Uniquely Successful Relationship With University in Chile– 2015-December-07
• Physics & Astronomy Hosts High School Students for Open House – 2015-November-5
• V.M. Kenkre and Satomi Sugaya's Paper Accepted for World Biomedical Frontiers, 2015-October-27
• Richard Rand and Isaiah Santistevan Discover Extensive Galaxy Halos With VLA, 2015-October-13
• Society for Physics Students Demo Show Amazes Audience – 2015-October-15
• Professor Carlton Caves Receives International Year of Light Recognition – 2015-October-1
• Mohammadreza Ghasemkhani Wins International Year of Light Student Paper Competition – 2015-October-1
• Nelly Ayllon Nominated as Speaker for Conference for Undergraduate Women in Physical Sciences – 2015-August-28
• Nitant Kenkre Co-Organized International Immunology Working Group – 2015-August-12
• Ivan Deutsch Selected as Regents' Professor – 2015-July-20
• Mark Morgan-Tracy Wins UNM Lecturer of the Year Award – 2015-April-13
• Greg Ottino Awarded Goldwater Scholarship – 2015-April-08
• Sally Seidel Wins Fulbright Senior Scholar Award – 2015-April-07
• Demo Night a Rousing Success – 2015-March-11
• Ivan Deutsch Selected for QUANTA magazine cover – 2015-January-22

2014

• Professor Mafi's Research Makes Physics World Year End Top Ten List – 2014-December-12
• Dr. Mansoor Sheik-Bahae's Lab Sinks to New Lows – 2014-December-08
• UNM/LHC Discovery is a Physical Review Letters "Highlight" – 2014-November-21
• Adjunct Professor David Emin's Research Published in "Nature" – 2014-November-15
• U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich Visits UNM Physics and Astronomy – 2014-November-3
• Amazingly Successful Society of Physics Students Meeting Held at UNM – 2014-November-1
• High Impact Factor Syndrome: An Opinion Piece by Carlton Caves – 2014-October-17
• Quakes, Methane Production Linked – Albuquerque Journal, 2014-September-21
• Long Wavelength Array Receives Award to Build Another LWA Station – 2014-August-28
• A New State of Beauty and Charm – ATLAS Collaboration, 2014-July-3
• Professor Sheik-Bahae Promoted to Distinguished Professor – 2014-June-17
• Professor Fields Promoted to Full Professor – 2014-June-9
• "Fireball Meteors Emit Unique Radio Wave Signals" – New Scientist, 2014-June-3
• "Surprise! Fireballs Light up the Radio Sky, Hinting at Unexplored Physics" -- Universe Today, 2014-June-2
• Going Below 100 Kelvin: UNM Team Achieves New World Record in Laser Cooling of Solids– 2014-May-30
• Multi-Color Quantum Dot Tracking Using a Hyperspectral Microscope Detects Protein Interactions Below the Diffraction Limit– 2014-April-29
• LWA1 Detects Three Millisecond Pulsars Below 100 MHz – 2014-April-18
• Remembering Sy Alpert – 2014-March-18
• Ivan Deutsch Selected as UNM's 59th Annual Research Lecturer – 2014-February-1
• UNM Alumnus Shohini Ghose Named 2014 TED Fellow – 2014-January-6

2013

• Grad Student Wins at European Cross Country Championships – 2013-December-17
• Graduate Student Bob Mesler's Paper Will Be Published in the Springer Theses Series, Recognizing Outstanding PhD Research – 2013-November-26
• Richard Rand and Team Found an Unusual Alignment In a Galaxy, Using the VLA – 2013-November-14
• Professor Michael Gold's Group Paper Named "Fermi Lab Result of the Week" – 2013-November-08
• UNM Physicists Have Observed a New Particle State – 2013-September-09
• Carl Caves Was Interviewed in the LIGO Magazine on the Occasion of LIGO's Putting Squeezed Light into the Hanford Interferometer – 2013-September-01
• Mousumi Roy Selected as Regents' Lecturer – 2013-May-20
• Gregory Taylor Promoted to Full Professor – 2013-May-28
• Rouzbeh Allahverdi Promoted to Associate Professor – 2013-May-14
• Keith Lidke Promoted to Associate Professor – 2013-May-14
• Christie Mattos to Receive Award from Sigma Xi – 2013-May-07
• Mickey Odom Promoted to Principal Lecturer – 2013-May-06
• Professor Kevin Cahill Authors Book on Physical Mathematics – 2013-January-30
• Professor Jean-Claude Diels and Dr. Ladan Arissian Win a 2013 CHOICE Award for Outstanding Academic Titles – 2013-January-3

2012

• Postdoc Student Alexander Albrecht Wins First Place OPN's Photo Contest – 2012-November-2
• Professor Emin Publishes New Book on Polarons – 2012-October-25
• Professor Seidel Elected to Executive Committee of the Division of Particles and Fields of the American Physical Society – 2012-October-22
• Professor Caves New Divisional Associate Editor for Physical Review Letters – 2012-September-4
• Professor McGraw Named Interim Vice President for Research & Economic Development – 2012-July-11
• Professor Duan Receives DOE Early Career Grant – 2012-May-08
• Professor Sheik-Bahae Receives OSA 2012 R.W. Wood Prize – 2012-April-04
• Alisa Gibson Receives Outstanding Staff Award – 2012-March-26
• Grad Student Debra Cox Selected to Participate in Lindau Nobel Laurate Meeting – 2012-March-6
• Professor Chandler Chosen Outstanding Referee of the Physical Review and Physical Review Letters Journal – 2012-March-2

2011

• Research Spotlight on Professor Mansoor Sheik-Bahae – 2011-May-24
• Katie Richardson Elected as President of GPSA – 2011-April-08
• Marlan Scully Recipient of the Herbert Walther Award – 2011-March-04
• Carlton Caves Recipient of the Max Born Award – 2011-March-01
• Cristihan Carrillo Iinvited to Present at Annual Posters on the Hill – 2011-February-22

2010

• Dinesh Loomba Selected as Regents' Lecturer – 2010-May-27

2009

• Susan R. Atlas Appointed Director of Center for Advanced Research Computing – 2009-June-01
• Professor Sudhakar Prasad Receives Teacher of the Year Award – 2009-April-10
• Monica Fishel to Receive Award From Sigma Xi – 2009-April-02
• John DeMoss Receives Outstanding Staff Award – 2009-March-20

2008

• Professor Carlton Caves Elected a Fellow of AAAS – 2008-December-3
• Sandra Ortiz Receives Gerald W. May Award – 2008-December-3
• Professor John McGraw Receives Teaching Excellence Award from A&S – 2008-July-3
• Mickey Odom Receives Certificate of Excellence from A&S – 2008-April-19
• Professor David Emin Elected by APS as "Outstanding Referee" – 2008-April-16

2007

• Kathryn Dimiduk Receives Award for Teaching Excellence – 2007-May-08
• John DeMoss Receives Sigma Xi Award – 2007-April-24
• Sandra Ortiz Receives Outstanding Staff Award – 2007-April-17
• Professor Mansoor Sheik-Bahae Recognized by The IEEE Lasers and Electro-Optics Society – 2007-February-27
• Professor Robert Duncan Appointed as director of New Mexico Consortium's Institute for Advanced Studies – 2007-February-19

2006

• Professor Wolfgang Rudolph Elected a Fellow of the Optical Society of America – 2006-November-17
• Professor Carlton M. Caves 2006 Recipient of the Distinguished Professor Award – 2006-August-28
• Professor Jean-Claude Diels 2006 Recipient of the Engineering Excellence Award by the Optical Society of America (OSA) – 2006-August-14
• Professor Wolfgang Rudolph Selected as One of Three Regents' Professors in the College of Arts & Sciences! – 2006-May-09
• Mary DeWitt Selected as a Recipient of the UNM Student Service Award – 2006-Apr-25
• Professor Sally Seidel Selected by the Fulbright Commission for a Grant to Sweden – 2006-Apr-18
• Sandra Ortiz Receives "Noteworthy Technical Support Person" Award From Sigma Xi – 2006-Apr-11
• Adriana Recalde-Aranda Receives a UNM International Excellence Award – 2006-Apr-07

2005

• Professor Ivan Deutsch Elected Fellow of the American Physical Society – 2005-Dec-01
• Professor Robert Duncan Elected Fellow of the American Physical Society – 2005-Dec-01
• Jean-Claude Diels Selected UNM's 51st Annual Research Lecturer for 2006 – 2005-Oct-21
• Kenkre Elected AAAS Fellow – 2005-Oct-19
• Kenkre Promoted to Distinguished Professor – 2005-Sept-29
• Dimiduk Honored as Outstanding Adjunct of the Year – 2005-Apr-19
• Kenkre Receives UNM International Excellence Award – 2005-Mar-24
• Kenkre Selected UNM’s Annual Research Lecturer – 2005-Feb-22
• Adhikari Receives Starkey Teaching Award – 2005-Feb-16
• Enhanced UNM-LANL Partnership in Quantum Info – 2005-Jan-24

2004

• Caves Elected APS Fellow – 2004-Dec-06
• Prasad Elected OSA Fellow – 2004-Nov-29
• Brueck Elected AAAS Fellow – 2004-Nov-29
• Thomas Named Deputy Director of HPC – 2004-Oct-26
• Walker Nominated for Work+Life Award – 2004-Oct-26
• Kenkre Named UNM’s 50th Annual Research Lecturer – 2004-Jun-23
• UNM Selected for MURI Research funding – 2004-May-26
• UNM to Cohost Workshop in September – 2004-May-27
• Buckner Creel Named GPSA President – 2004-Apr-15
• 2004 Regional Science and Engineering Fair – 2004-Mar-19
• Prof. Duncan Selected as Moore Scholar at CalTech – 2004-Feb-09

2003

• Prof. Kenkre Receives NSF’s First International Science Center Grant – 2003-Sep-08
• UNM Professor Receives Textbook Excellence Award – 2003-Sep-05