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In the news: Ferenchak’s expertise with pedestrian safety popular in the media
March 14, 2024
From USA Today to The New York Times to the Albuquerque Journal, Nick Ferenchak’s Center for Pedestrian and Bicyclist Safety has been sparking media interest since its opening in 2023. Read More...

Southwest Environmental Finance Center staffer gives talk at Cornell University
March 5, 2024
A project director for the Southwest Environmental Finance Center at UNM gave a talk recently at Cornell University. Read More...

Mulchandani among those to receive School of Engineering Teaching Innovation Award
February 19, 2024
The first School of Engineering Teaching Innovation Fellows for spring 2024 have been selected, with projects ranging from cybersecurity to photovoltaics. Read More...

Alumna Sandra Begay making a brighter tomorrow for American Indian tribes
February 6, 2024
Sandra Begay, who earned a civil engineering bachelor’s degree from UNM, has spent her career at Sandia National Laboratories working wtih Native American tribes to develop renewable energy solutions. Read More...

Civil engineering welcomes new faculty member this semester
January 11, 2024
Allyson McGaughey, who is beginning this semester as an assistant professor in the Gerald May Department of Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering, said she is eager to begin her life and career at UNM. Read More...

Cerrato helps organize annual Superfund Research Program Meeting in Albuquerque
December 13, 2023
José Cerrato, professor and Regents’ Lecturer in the Gerald May Department of Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering, participated in the Scientific Planning Committee for the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) Annual Superfund Research Program Meeting that took place Dec. 4-6 at Hotel Albuquerque. Read More...

Ferenchak quoted in the ‘New York Times’
December 12, 2023
Nicholas Ferenchak, an assistant professor in The University of New Mexico’s Gerald May Department of Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering and director of the Center for Pedestrian and Bicyclist Safety, was recently featured in a New York Times article Read More...

Civil engineering alumnus receives award
November 21, 2023
Drew Baird, who earned a Ph.D. in civil engineering from UNM in 2004, received the 2023 Arid Lands Hydraulic Engineering Award from the American Society of Civil Engineers Environmental and Water Resources Institute. Read More...

Cerrato, Tsiropoulou win Research Creative Works Leadership Awards
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 stage. Read More...