Schools and Colleges

For the first time ever, a group from The University of New Mexico will be competing in the Spaceport America Cup, which will be held June 18-22 between Las Cruces and Truth or Consequences, N.M. UNM’s Lobo Launch team, which includes 21 mechanical...

Edl Schamiloglu, Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and associate dean for research and innovation at The University of New Mexico School of Engineering, received the first-ever IEEE Magne “Kris” Kristiansen Award for...

The fourth annual NASA Swarmathon was hosted recently by The University of Mexico, covering Smith Plaza with swarms of robots that look like the desert ants that live around Albuquerque. But these ants were busy gathering cubes and bringing them back to...

The American West stretches from the sandy shores of the Pacific to the peaks of the Rockies, its diverse landscapes of deserts, foothills, beaches, mesas, grasslands, and mountains boasting of sunshine in the summer and snowpack in the winter. Water is...

The University of New Mexico aims to recruit high school females from New Mexico and surrounding states into engineering and medicine by hosting the Perry Outreach Program.  The Perry Outreach Program was created in 2009 by the Perry Initiative, a...

The Peace Engineering Initiative, a new socio-economic technological development framework for New Mexico and global challenges, is set for Wednesday, May 29 from 1 to 5 p.m. in UNM SUB Ballroom C. Peace engineering is a pathway and a mindset that...

A team of students, under the leadership of Andrea Polli, a professor at The  University of New Mexico's College of Fine Arts and associate professor of Computer Science at the UNM School of Engineering, has been working on a project called BioShield, a...

Sandia National Laboratories and The University of New Mexico are joining forces to bolster national security and advance science and engineering with an agreement signed May 7. The Cooperative Research and Development Agreement, or CRADA, will...

Growing up, Lilian Casias was always encouraged to the break norm, and her parents wanted to give her every opportunity to be able to do so. Because of this in 1996, her parents packed up their lives and moved their family from Mexico to the United...

Jared Thurgood will graduate this Saturday from The University of New Mexico with a Bachelor of Science degree in Nuclear Engineering. But there were times along the way when he didn’t know if he was going to succeed. Thurgood worked hard in high school...