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President Barack Obama announced that Yasamin Mostofi, assistant professor in the UNM Electrical and Computer Engineering department, has been awarded the highly prestigious Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE). As stated ...

Faculty from UNM's School of Engineering recently received a grant from the NSF-sponsored ENGAGE: Engaging Students in Engineering program that provides science, mathematics and engineering, faculty with opportunities to explore and implement proven ...

UNM Computer Science Graduate Student Jeffrey Knockel, and professors Jared Saia and Jed Crandall, have presented an interesting challenge to the computing world. The challenge is in the form of a paper titled, "Three Researchers, Five Conjectures: An ...

Zayd Leseman, associate professor of mechanical engineering, has received a National Science Foundation CAREER award to develop methods for modeling and characterizing Phononic Crystals (PnCs). PnCs are a type of micro/nanostructure capable of ...

Last Wednesday, civil engineering students lined up for the opportunity to ‘dunk' their professors at a fundraiser for an annual CE competition. The event, hosted by UNM's student chapter of American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) and Chi Epsilon, an ...

By Tamara WilliamsThe demonstration started with just a trickle of water meandering down the 65' channel. The blue-tinted water rushed along, gushing over the channel's sides in some places, simulating a flood along the North Diversion Channel. It ...

Life is about to get better for undergraduate students at the University of New Mexico School of Engineering with a new $2 million grant from the National Science Foundation that will provide paid internships with participating companies and national ...

Karl Kharas recently drove to Albuquerque using green diesel made from natural gas. He had just enough fuel to complete the roundtrip from Denver in an Audi sporting the logo, "Eureka! Diesel drives the future."Kharas is a scientist who works at Rentech, ...

New Mexico state legislators and leaders and researchers from UNM and Sandia National Laboratories attended the grand opening of the Nanomaterials and Nanomedicine Lab, the School of Engineering's newest laboratory, on Aug. 23.The lab will serve as ...

Organizers of the 23rd Annual Rio Grande Symposium on Advanced Materials have issued a call for papers. The Symposium allows researchers in the Rio Grande geographic region to exchange technical information. The Symposium is an outgrowth of the Joint ...