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Graduate student receives Department of Energy research award
November 22, 2023
Stephen Porter, a graduate student in the Nanoscience and Microsystems Engineering Program at The University of New Mexico, has been selected to receive the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science Graduate Student Research Award. Read More...

Professor receives Department of Defense funding to develop smart thin films
May 31, 2023
Nathan Jackson, an assistant professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, is receiving Department of Defense (DoD) funding to develop new functional thin films that could be utilized in microsystem sensors and actuator applications, including wearable technology, autonomous vehicles, robotics, energy harvesting, and biomedical sensing Read More...

Good vibrations: Engineering professor earns NSF CAREER Award for new way to harvest energy
May 30, 2023
From smart buildings to the Internet of Things to cyberphysical systems, the technological marvels of our modern world have made things like controlling your kitchen appliances remotely or cars that park themselves a reality. Such advances have changed the way we all live and interact, but that technology has come with a cost: that of increasing power needs. Read More...

NSME student receives Student Research Achievement Award (SRAA)
February 27, 2023
Poster selected at Biophysical Society conference Read More...

Doctoral student wins Outstanding Paper Award
November 30, 2021
Extreme Materials Group (XMAT) from The University of New Mexico’s Department of Nuclear Engineering won an Outstanding Paper Award at an International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition (IMECE 2021) this Fall. Read More...

Yvoné Nelson appointed new Academic Program Coordinator
September 14, 2021
Yvoné Nelson appointed new Academic Program Coordinator Read More...

NSME PhD student wins fellowship
May 7, 2021
Brian Rummel won this year’s Koerner Family Foundation fellowship Read More...

NSME student featured in APS News
May 7, 2021
Raju Prasad Ghimire featured in the May 2021 issue Read More...

Engineering graduate student receives 5 Sigma Physicist Award
April 1, 2020
Raju Ghimire, a doctoral student in the Nanoscience and Microsystems Engineering Program at The University of New Mexico, has been selected as one of 16 to receive the 5 Sigma Physicist Award, given by the American Physical Society (APS). Read More...