School of Engineering

The dormant volcanoes west of Albuquerque frame the view on the western horizon from anywhere in the city. Next summer westbound drivers on I-40 will be able to glance to their right as they rumble over the Westside I-40 diversion channel, and they just...

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...

The University of New Mexico has enjoyed a long history of mutually beneficial collaborations with the Universidad de Concepción (UdeC), one of the top three universities for Engineering and Physics in Chile. UNM faculty members are travelling to Chile...

From cancer to coffee, the recpients of the 2015 Presidential Award of Distinction have portfolios of research accomplishments that separate the scientists from many others in their fields. Both, C. Jeffrey Brinker amd Patricia Crown, have dedicated...

Sanjay Krishna, director of the University of New Mexico’s Center for High Technology Materials (CHTM), was one of 77 members of the Optical Society of America (OSA) elected to the latest class of OSA Fellows who have served with distinction in the...

Sandia National Laboratories and the University of New Mexico have been awarded the 2015 Gold Award in Green Technology for the development of the CO2 memzyme.   It was selected as one of the 100 most technologically significant new projects 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...

The University of New Mexico School of Architecture and Planning and School of Engineering took first place in the Design-Build Institute of America (DBIA) 2015 National Design-Build Student Competition, presented by the only organization that defines,...

Matthew Lakin, research assistant professor in Chemical and Biological Engineering and in Computer Science explains the idea of molecular computing.

After consultation with faculty and staff in the University of New Mexico School of Engineering, and with the appropriate university officials, Provost Chaouki Abdallah has announced that Joe Cecchi, current dean will continue to serve as dean through...