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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 ...

The Configurable Space Microsystems and Application Center (COSMIAC) hosts the 2011 ReSpace and MAPLD conference at the Albuquerque Marriott Hotel this week. The conference promotes discussion of recent advances in reconfigurable electronics and ...

Dorian Arnold, assistant professor in UNM's Computer Science Department is a member of a research team that has been recognized with a 2011 R 100 Award. The award is for STAT, the stack trace analysis tool, which is being developed with researchers from ...

The UNM LOBOMotorSports team placed eighth in design, ninth in autocross, and 12th in marketing at the Formula SAE®, an international competition for open wheel, open cockpit Formula-style race cars held June 15-18, in Fontana, Calif. The competition ...

On Wednesday, middle-school students created space suit design samples and faced off in a friendly competition to test their suit's durability. The students were given a budget to "buy" materials including copy paper, aluminum foil, paper plates, duct ...

Ryan Morrison, who is pursuing a Ph.D in Civil Engineering at UNM, recently received a prestigious two-year, $94,000 fellowship from the Hydro Research Foundation. Fellows are selected based on research vision, innovation, academic performance, potential ...

UNM Mechanical Engineering graduate student Ben Rael won second place for his paper, "Characterization of Zinc Powder Compactions," in the 2011 American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Gulf South West Conference. Rael completed his Bachelor's ...