2023
May
May 30, 2023

From smart buildings to the Internet of Things to cyberphysical systems, the technological marvels of our modern world have made things like controlling your kitchen appliances remotely or cars that p…
May 25, 2023

Members of the Minority Serving Institutions Partnership Program met in Albuquerque earlier this month, and members of the Grande CARES consortium presented some of their work so far.
Attracting more …
May 19, 2023

The University of New Mexico on May 10 held a ceremony to celebrate the official renaming of a department, which makes the School of Engineering home to the first and only endowed department at the un…
May 19, 2023

From left: Aisha B. Rahman, Eirini Eleni Tsiropoulou, Arianna Santamaria Penafiel, Md Sadman Siraj.
Three students from the PROTON Lab, led by Eirini Eleni Tsiropoulou, assistant professor in the Depa…
May 18, 2023

Five students in the School of Engineering were among the winners of the pitch competition held this spring by UNM Rainforest Innovations.
The following students in the School received awards:
May 18, 2023

Christos Christodoulou, distinguished professor of electrical and computer engineering at UNM and director of COSMIAC, has been selected for the IEEE Chen-To Tai Distinguished Educator…
May 16, 2023

Angelea Maestas-Olguin, a Ph.D. student in The University of New Mexico Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, has been awarded a Zancada Graduate Fellowship, spon…
May 7, 2023

On May 5, the School of Engineering hosted Engineering Expo VIII, an event that showcases senior design projects to corporate partners and includes a poster competition and elevator pitch contest wher…
May 7, 2023

On April 23, the UNM Formula SAE team held a driving day for sponsors, which allowed them take one of the past cars the team has taken to competition out for a spin around the G Lot practice track.
De…
May 4, 2023

Two nuclear engineering students from The University of New Mexico are among 32 students from institutions around the country to receive graduate fellowships as part of the U.S. Department of Energy&#…
June
June 30, 2023
Like many of you, I was deeply dismayed by the action of the U.S. Supreme Court yesterday in ruling that universities’ race-conscious admission policies violate the U.S. Constitution’s 14t…
June 30, 2023

Krista Navarrette
Krista Navarrette has been selected as manager of advising for the UNM School of Engineering. Her appointment begins July 1.
She has been serving as interim manager of advising since…
June 30, 2023

Twenty-one students from the UNM Gerald May Department of Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering recently spent time in the Netherlands to learn more about transportation engineering and wa…
June 29, 2023

Donna Riley, Jim and Ellen King Dean of Engineering and Computing at The University of New Mexico, has been elected as the first vice president of scholarship for the American Society fo…
June 26, 2023

A faculty member from The University of New Mexico Department of Nuclear Engineering is the lead on two grants from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Nuclear Energy University Programs that total …
June 21, 2023

Whether it’s holding tutoring sessions on calculus, leading sessions on self-esteem, organizing networking and resumé events, or hosting future Lobos at engineering and computer science han…
June 12, 2023
Nick Ferenchak, an assistant professor in The University of New Mexico’s Gerald May Department of Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering and director of the new Center for Pedestrian …
June 5, 2023

The University of New Mexico, through the COSMIAC research center, is among eight universities selected nationwide for an Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) and NASA partnership called the Mission C…
June 2, 2023
The University of New Mexico’s Center for High Technology Materials (CHTM) will commemorate its 40th anniversary with a public celebration, June 15, 2023.
CHTM, located at 1313 Goddard SE in UNM…
June 1, 2023

The summer 2023 group of Summer Intensive Research Internship (SIRI) participants are visiting The University of New Mexico campus as part of the National Science Foundation Cyberphysical Systems Fro…
July
July 31, 2023

UNM's Julie Hayes and Matthew Fricke during field research in Curaçao. (Photos by John Ericksen)
As we all endure a record-hot summer that scientists say is largely the result of climate cha…
July 21, 2023

At a ceremony Monday (July 24) at The University of New Mexico, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) awarded a grant of $4 million to the Southwest Environmental Finance Center, part of the…
July 20, 2023

The 2023 UNM Formula SAE team at competition in Michigan.
The saying that it’s about the journey, not the destination, would be an apt way to think about The University of New Mexico’s For…
July 14, 2023
Donna Riley, Jim and Ellen King Dean of Engineering and Computing, has been appointed to the advisory committee for the Directorate for Engineering at the National Science Foundation (NSF).
The appoin…
July 7, 2023
Donna Riley, Jim and Ellen King Dean of Engineering and Computing, began as dean of the School of Engineering on April 1. As of July 10, she has been on the job for 100 days. During that time, she has…
July 3, 2023
Eight professors and instructors in the School of Engineering have received promotions.
Those promoted to full professor are:
July 3, 2023
The University of New Mexico announces the recognition and promotion of six faculty to the rank of Distinguished Professor. The rank of Distinguished Professor is awarded to faculty who have demonstra…
January 1, 2019

Andrew Schuler, a professor in the Gerald May Department of Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering, has been selected as the director of the Center for Water and the Enviro…
August
August 31, 2023
Three students affiliated with The University of New Mexico have been selected as Transportation Research Board (TRB) Minority Student Fellows for 2024.
Olivia Tafoya, who is pursuing a bachelor’…
August 21, 2023

Earlier this month, Professor Sudharman K. Jayaweera, a professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, joined the National Science Foundation (NSF) as a p…
August 15, 2023

Eric Lang, an assistant professor in the Department of Nuclear Engineering at UNM, is the beneficiary of a Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) program to encourage his professional develop…
August 15, 2023
Donna Riley, Jim and Ellen King Dean of Engineering and Computing, has been appointed to the UNM Rainforest Innovations Board of Directors.
Her appointment was announced by Sandra Begay, chair of the …
August 15, 2023

Milad Marvian, an assistant professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and a member of the Center for Quantum Information and Control (CQuIC) at UNM is lea…
August 9, 2023

Chuzube Edeh
Chuzube Edeh, a junior in chemistry at UNM and an active team member of the nanoscience and nanomedicine lab in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, was honored recently…
September
September 27, 2023
Two University of New Mexico School of Engineering professors are part of one of the eight Microelectronics Commons innovation hubs recently announced by the Department of Defense as part of President…
September 26, 2023
This month, the National Science Foundation — along with partner funding agencies from Australia, Canada and the United Kingdom — announced awards totaling $76.4 million for the inaugural …
September 18, 2023
Two programs in The University of New Mexico School of Engineering were ranked in the 2024 U.S. News & World Report Best Colleges rankings, released Sept. 18.
The School of Engineering’s overall…
September 7, 2023

Longtime UNM professor Eva Chi has been selected by Donna Riley, Jim and Ellen King Dean of Engineering and Computing, as the first associate dean for faculty affairs in School of Engineering history…
October
October 23, 2023

A professor at The University of New Mexico Department of Nuclear Engineering is leading a Department of Energy project that will study effects of external magnetic field on metallic…
October 20, 2023

Christopher Perfetti, an associate professor of nuclear engineering at The University of New Mexico, is the principal investigator of two large research projects focusing on nuclear reactor fuel cycle…
October 20, 2023
The Research and Creative Works Leadership Awards were established in 2020 to honor recently promoted faculty who have accomplished outstanding research or creative works in their respective career st…
October 16, 2023

Matthias Pleil, a research professor and lecturer in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, has been selected as one of the two recipients of this year’s Outstanding Supervisor Award, given …
October 12, 2023

Timothy Schriener has been promoted to research associate professor in the Department of Nuclear Engineering.
He has been with UNM’s Institute for Space and Nuclear Power Stu…
October 11, 2023

Matt Pleil works with a student in the MTTC cleanroom at UNM.
In an ideal world, every student who graduates from the School of Engineering would acquire the skills, knowledge and abilities required …
October 10, 2023

Nicholas Ferenchak, an assistant professor in the Gerald May Department of Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering, is the recipient of the 2023 Ovation Award, presented…
October 10, 2023

Lauren Bailey, a senior in the Department of Nuclear Engineering at UNM, was selected to present a poster at the inaugural 2023 Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) Global Forum Rising Stars Workshop held in …
October 4, 2023

Steven Graves, a professor in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering at UNM, has been selected by Jim and Ellen King Dean of Engineering and Computing Donna Riley as int…
October 3, 2023
The race for space is alive and well at the UNM School of Engineering, bolstered recently by two new congressionally mandated multi-million-dollar projects.
Christos Christodoulou, distinguished profe…
October 3, 2023

Fernando Moreu with Chuck Farrar after receiving the SHM in Action award at Palo Alto on Sept. 13. Farrar is a UNM alumni in civil engineering and the director of the Engineering Institute at Los Alam…
October 3, 2023

A professor in the Department of Computer Science has been selected as part of UNM School of Engineering Dean Donna Riley’s leadership team.
Melanie Moses is the new special assi…
November
November 22, 2023

Stephen Porter, a graduate student in the Nanoscience and Microsystems Engineering Program at The University of New Mexico, has been selected to receive the U.S. Department of Energy …
November 22, 2023

The 2023 Distinguished Alumni Award class (from left): George Cathey, Nicholas Morley, Steven Renfro, Casey DeRaad, Dean Donna Riley, John Conover, Clark Dickson, Jennifer Toth and Derek Smith. (Photo…
November 21, 2023

Two of the UNM winners, Caleb Dang and Chuzube Edeh, pose with their awards.
Three UNM students, including two students in the School of Engineering, received awards at the Rio Grande Symposium for Ad…
November 21, 2023

Two students from The University of New Mexico nanomedicine lab recently received awards at the 2023 AIChE Annual Meeting in Orlando.
Caleb Dang, a junior in chemical and biological engineering, and …
November 15, 2023

Donna Riley, Jim and Ellen King Dean of Engineering and Computing at The University of New Mexico, has been inducted into the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Hall of Fa…
November 1, 2023

Researchers from the School of Engineering won awards at the annual UNM Health Sciences Clinical and Translational Science Center Bioventure partnership event held this week.
Achraf Noureddine, a res…
December
December 15, 2023

Sang M. Han, chair and Regents’ Professor in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, has been elected into the National Academy of Inventors.
Han was among 162 acade…
December 15, 2023

Top winners, “iVrCv: Immersive Virtual Reality Clinical Video,” with the judges and Christina Salas.
Two student teams won a total of $50,000 in awards in the annual Biodesign Pitch Compet…
December 10, 2023

COSMIAC, a space-related research center in the School of Engineering, has received the inaugural Space Valley Diversity in Business Champion Award, sponsored by the New Mexico Minority Business Deve…
December 10, 2023

Alisa Sadilek, an administrative assistant in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, has been selected to receive the fall 2023 Provost Committee for Staff Kindness Awa…
December 4, 2023

Jacob Belchak, a Ph.D. student at the Center for Biomedical Engineering at The University of New Mexico, has been accepted to the Oak Ridge National Laboratory Neutron Scattering Gradu…