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The University of New Mexico has been awarded $1.6 million from the National Science Foundation to continue a successful program to provide educational materials and services to industry trainers and educators on the growing science and technology of...

Julian Vigil is a point of pride for the Lobo pack. The Chemical Engineering senior was just named as one of the elite Churchill Scholars. The Churchill Scholarship was set up at...

Find out how maps get made and who makes them at this year’s Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Day on Wednesday, Nov. 16 from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. The event is held in conjunction with the Geography Awareness Week, Nov. 13–19, and is hosted by the Earth...

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...

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.

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...

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...