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Growing up in rural Ethiopia, in a village with no running water or electricity, University of New Mexico Assistant Professor Terefe Habteyes says he was always fascinated by light. Now, as a faculty member in UNM’s Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, his research into the interaction between light and material has earned him one of the most celebrated science awards for junior faculty in the nation.

Behsan Behzadi, a research assistant with the Center for High Tech Materials (CHTM) at The University of New Mexico, was recently awarded the ASSL Student Outstanding Poster Prize at the Advanced Solid State Lasers Conference (ASSL). The annual national...

Daniel Feezell, CHTM Nanofabrication Advisor and Assistant Professor with Electrical and Computer Engineering at The University of New Mexico (UNM), is the Principal Investigator (PI) for a project which recently brought a grant award to UNM from the...

Arash Mafi has been appointed as the interim director of The University of New Mexico's Center for High Technology Materials (CHTM). Mafi is an associate professor of Physics and Astronomy. Mafi's research interests include quantum and nonlinear...

Stefi Weisburd, Outreach and Education Manager with CHTM and the UNM School of Engineering, recently guided about 30 high school students from Albuquerque through their orientation to their STEM internships at UNM on at CHTM. Weisburd works hard to...

Nobel Laureate John Hall is the featured speaker at the Center for High Technology Materials (CHTM) Distinguished Lecture Friday, May 6 at 10 a.m. The lecture titled, “Intracavity Nonlinear Spectroscopy, technical issues, and scientific opportunities,”...