Chemistry

University of New Mexico undergraduate students work closely with faculty mentors to conduct innovative and exciting research.  Each spring, this research is celebrated at the annual Undergraduate Research Opportunity Conference (UROC). UROC is a...

Two professors from The University of New Mexico, including Hua Guo and Wirt Wills, were elected recently by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) to the newest class of AAAS Fellows. The 2021 class of AAAS Fellows includes 564...

As part of The University of New Mexico’s homecoming week festivities, the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology (CCB) hosts an open house Friday, Nov. 5 from 2-4 p.m. to celebrate the newly renovated Clark Hall. The campus community is invited to...

Quantum Technologies hold the promise to revolutionize future technologies in computing, communication, and sensing and deepening our understanding of the universe. They harness the unique features of quantum mechanical systems for devices such...

The Born–Oppenheimer (BO) approximation is the best known mathematical model in molecular quantum mechanics. Named after Max Born and J. Robert Oppenheimer, the approach was proposed during an early period of quantum mechanics back in the...

The UNM Department of Chemistry & Chemical Biology hosts a departmental colloquium featuring Professor Roald Hoffman in a virtual presentation titled Simulation vs. understanding: A tension, and not just in our profession, on Friday, May 7 at 12...

Jeremy Edwards, director of the Computational Genomics and Technology (CGaT) Laboratory at The University of New Mexico, and his colleagues at Centrillion Technologies in Palo Alto, Calif. and West Virginia University, have developed a chip that provides...

Entry, descent, and landing technologies are critical to placing large payloads on other planets such as Mars. As a spacecraft enters an atmosphere of a planet such as Earth or Mars, collisions with the atmospheric atoms and molecules generate very high...

University Communication and Marketing (UCAM) annually compiles a Year-in-Review highlighting its research news across campus during the course of the calendar year. Below is a select list of 2020 stories highlighting student, faculty, staff and alumni...

A group of researchers from The University of New Mexico Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, led by Distinguished Professor Hua Guo, have teamed up with colleagues from Texas A&M University to understand more about the photochemistry of Earth’s...