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A Lobo Engineering team won first place, $2,500 and the Intel Environmental Innovation Award for their design in “The People’s Water” Treatment of Wastewater for Reuse” in the 26th Annual International Environmental Design Contest. The competition was...

To say Christopher DeGraw took a slightly different path to becoming an engineer would be an understatement. The Connecticut native earned a bachelor’s in music education and a master’s in musicology (from Ithaca College and the University of Limerick...

Francis Salas will graduate from the University of New Mexico with his B.S. Degree in Electrical Engineering in mid-May. Five years ago even he couldn’t envision this moment. He was in federal prison, nearing the end of a 10-year sentence for drug...

More than 30 people gathered last week to form a new student chapter of the Earthquake Engineering Research Institute - EERI. There has been substantial interest in earthquake resistant structures since a group of UNM students formed to create an...

When you look at the image, you can easily see the intersection of two interstate highways, I-25 and I-40 is the greatest concentration of toxic vehicle pollution in the city. It’s the kind of graphic information that elected officials and public...

Two design teams from The University of New Mexico’s Department of Nuclear Engineering received best presentation awards in their technical tracks at the American Nuclear Society annual student conference at the University of Wisconsin - Madison.

Ayșe Muñiz, a senior in biochemistry from Alamogordo, N.M., will soon be leaving the sunny state of New Mexico she’s always called home for the northern frontiers of Michigan.  

The University of New Mexico School of Engineering hosts its second annual senior design expo on May 13, featuring projects from more than 200 students from all departments in the school. Engineering Expo II will be held 2-5 p.m. on the first floor of...

Join Sigma Xi for the Science and Society Distinguished Public Talk on Thursday, April 21 at 6 p.m. in the UNM Conference Center Auditorium as they present ‘Nuclear Batteries for Long Life Low Power Applications.’

University of New Mexico Computer Science Professor Melanie Moses is leading a national competition to teach students to program small robots to swarm. Working together, UNM and NASA built 55 Swarmie robots. Schools across the country received 36 of the...