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Two design teams from The University of New Mexico’s Department of Nuclear Engineering received best presentation awards in their technical tracks at the American Nuclear Society annual student conference at the University of Wisconsin - Madison.

The University of New Mexico School of Engineering hosts its second annual senior design expo on May 13, featuring projects from more than 200 students from all departments in the school. Engineering Expo II will be held 2-5 p.m. on the first floor of...

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...

Students in third through 12th-grades are invited to “Engineering the Elements” on Saturday, April 16 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. sponsored by the National Society of Black Engineers and Hispanics in Engineering & Sciences Organization, two students groups in...

Michael Devetsikiotis, professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at North Carolina State University, has been selected as the next chair of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at The University of New Mexico.  Devetsikiotis is a...

Athena and Maya Combs-Hurtado have a lot in common. They have the same friends, are interested in the same activities, and often travel together. The twins, born in Venezuela but raised in Albuquerque, now have one more thing they share: they are both...

Economics professor Alok Bohara wants to establish the Nepal Studies Center at the University of New Mexico as a beacon. Bohara is the founder and expert guiding the Nepal Study Center’s research and community engagement work in Nepal. A...

For the University of New Mexico’s LOBOMotorSports team, it’s been a sweet few years. The team did well at the Formula SAE competitions, and seemed to do better each year. In 2014, the team placed 11th overall. In 2013, they took 12th place, and the team...

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.

Mottaleb Hossain, a doctoral student in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the optical science and engineering program at the University of New Mexico, has won the 2015 IEEE Albuquerque Section Outstanding Graduate...