School of Engineering

The University of New Mexico Department of Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering (CCEE) officially celebrated the opening of a new donor-funded learning space on November 1 in a ceremony attended by University and community officials. The...

Mohamed El-Genk, a Distinguished and Regents’ Professor in the Department of Nuclear Engineering at The University of New Mexico, has received the 2021 American Nuclear Society Reactor Technology Award. This national award recognizes individuals who...

The UNM School of Law recently led a group of faculty and students on a visit to the Laguna Pueblo, some 40 miles west of Albuquerque, to learn about the history of uranium mining and the disproportionate impacts of uranium contamination upon indigenous...

The Air Force Research Laboratory’s Directed Energy Directorate is partnering with The University of New Mexico (UNM) to establish a center for directed energy studies, a congressionally-funded endeavor.   The Directed Energy Center will be based at UNM...

If you don’t know Alex Webster, one scroll through her Twitter feed will give you a glimpse at the funny, spunky, smart research faculty member who is bringing community into the UNM classroom. Her passion for water sustainability, shown on Twitter...

A team of researchers from The University of New Mexico has developed an improved process to make natural gas engines burn cleaner and emit fewer emissions. The work is reported in Nature Catalysis. While natural gas engines are cleaner than gasoline or...

Researchers at The University of New Mexico are exploring more efficient, sustainable and reliable ways of extracting heat from the Earth for geothermal energy. The Department of Energy recently committed $12 million to seven research projects focusing...

Assistant Professor Fernando Moreu and Marine 2nd Lieutenant Joshua Murillo of the Smart Management of Infrastructure Laboratory (SMILab) located in the Center for Advanced Research Computing, along with Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering...

Researchers from The University of New Mexico are part of $12 million in grants recently announced by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency that will provide training and technical assistance to small, rural and Tribal wastewater systems. This...

A faculty member from The University of New Mexico is one of the researchers on a recently-funded National Science Foundation project that focuses on carbon capture and conversion in manufacturing. Shuya Wei, an assistant professor in the Department...