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More than 600 students from 40 colleges and 30 high schools will demonstrate their programming skills in a robotics competition culminating at the Kennedy Space Center, April 18-20.  The competition, which will be live-streamed online, is part of the...

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...

A rainstorm passing through Albuquerque can frizz your home television satellite signal, and degrade signals relaying data from space or across long distances at the radio frequencies we all use now. But what happens when you use frequencies much farther...

NASA's Minority University Research and Education Project (MUREP) has selected the University of New Mexico for a new cooperative agreement, which includes a three-year, $1.8 million grant, to manage the agency's “Swarmathon" challenge.

The University of New Mexico’s Configurable Space Microsystems Innovations and Applications Center (COSMIAC) is preparing its third CubeSat, a small, cube-shaped satellite, for a space launch.  

Les Johnson, NASA technologist and author of “Going Interstellar,” will give two talks on the University of New Mexico campus Thursday, Feb. 19 and Friday, Feb. 20...

George Gorospe can hardly contain his enthusiasm when he talks about working for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). This spring he completed his Bachelor's degree in Engineering and is now on his way to the NASA leadership Academy. ...

Engineering and science students are invited to attend the NASA Awareness Day on Friday, March 30 from 11:45a.m. to 4:30 p.m. at Centennial Engineering Center. The event will offer various professional development opportunities and training to help ...