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A group from The University of New Mexico has received a grant from the National Science Foundation for a project that will develop a way to produce solar cells using nanotechnology, which could translate into more cost-effective solar panels for...

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.

Mohamed S. El-Genk, Regents’ Professor of Nuclear, Mechanical, and Chemical and Biological Engineering, has received the 2015 American Nuclear Society Thermal-Hydraulics Technical Achievement Award.  

Norman Frederick Roderick, former chair of the Chemical and Nuclear Engineering Department in the School of Engineering, died April 6 from natural causes.

What will it take to make electrical power generated by nuclear reactors a safe and normal part of the world’s energy future? That’s one of several questions researchers and engineers tried to answer in a series of three-day workshops scattered at universities across the country.

Anil K. Prinja, professor and chair of the Department of Nuclear Engineering at the University of New Mexico, has been selected to receive the American Nuclear Society’s Gerald C. Pomraning Award for 2015.

New Mexico voters approved General Obligation Bonds B and C benefiting libraries, and colleges and universities statewide in Tuesday’s general election. GO Bond B will allocate $3.5 million for academic libraries, while Bond C provides $139 million in

Dean of the School of Engineering Joseph Checchi appointed Professor Anil Prinja as inaugural interim chair of the new Department of Nuclear Engineering (NE), Prinja’s appointment begins July 1.

This summer, two programs that have been combined in one department for decades within the University of New Mexico’s School of Engineering will become separate.

UNM Assistant Professor of Chemical and Nuclear Engineering Adam Hecht and his research group of graduates and undergraduates are excited about a new $400,000 grant from the Department of Energy.