The Rainforest Innovator Fellow is awarded to an exceptional UNM inventor by Rainforest Innovations. In giving this award to Prof. Diels, they highlighted his research into ultrashort laser pulse phen…

The $3 million 2026 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics went to three teams of scientists working on the Muon g-2 experiment, including most recently a Fermilab team that includes Research Assis…

Caption: An artist rendering of the system. Credit: Tedi Vick

Graduate student Ismael Mireles led a research team which published an article confirming three bodies orbiting the dynamic e…

Amilcar's prestigious Fellowship comes from DOE's Office of Science Graduate Student Research. He will spend a year at the Oak Ridge National Lab in Tennessee working on his project entitled "Synthesi…

Shohini Ghose received her PhD from UNM Physics in 2013 and has become a leader in quantum computing.

She has also become a leading advocate for women in science.

In 2023 she wrote a book entitled "He…

ThorLabs Mobile Photonics Lab had a successful visit! All photos by Alex Albrecht

UNM students, faculty, and staff, as well as Albuquerque Academy students were able to experience the ThorLabs Mobile …

In an effort to capitalize on the next wave of the quantum revolution, The University of New Mexico, along with partners including Sandia National Laboratories (SNL) and Los Alamos National Laboratory…

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Our former Bachelors and PhD student Kathrin Spendier is profiled in a Q&A article in September's issue of Physics Today.   

After graduating from UNM with a PhD, working in Prof. Jim Thomas…