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Dissertation defense: Kyle Troche
March 20, 2025
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Dissertation defense: Christian Pattyn
March 5, 2025
Atmospheric aerosols, such as fog, degrade optical signals via the scattering and absorption of light, making it difficult to recover information from our surroundings. Read More...

Seminar: Dr. Randal Appleton, Harel Frish​
March 4, 2025
We present an overview of Intel’s latest advancements in silicon photonics integration. Read More...

Sajjad Khan awarded a Zancada Graduate Fellowship
June 3, 2024
Sajjad Khan, a Ph.D. student in The Nanoscience & Microsystems Engineering, has been awarded a Zancada Graduate Fellowship. Read More...

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
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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...