The University of New Mexico (UNM) was awarded a $800,000 Project Grant from the Office of the Secretary of Defense to support basic, applied, and advanced research in science and engineering under the Basic, Applied, and Advanced Research in Science and Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 12.630). Specifically, the four-year award will fund research and development of novel nanoparticles for high-precision levitated optomechanical sensors from July 1, 2023 through June 30, 2027. As a...
The University of New Mexico (UNM) was awarded a $800,000 Project Grant from the Office of the Secretary of Defense to support basic, applied, and advanced research in science and engineering fields with potential to contribute to Department of Defense missions. The grant was awarded on June 1, 2023 under the Basic, Applied, and Advanced Research in Science and Engineering program (CFDA 12.630) and runs through May 31, 2027. As the prime awardee, UNM will leverage its expertise and resources...
The Department of Energy's Office of Science awarded a $450,000 Project Grant to the University of New Mexico under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) on September 1, 2024. The funding supports the "FAR-QU: FUNDAMENTAL ALGORITHMIC RESEARCH TOWARDS QUANTUM UTILITY" project, which aims to advance U.S. energy, economic, and national security priorities through transformative scientific discoveries in quantum information science. The University of New...
The University of New Mexico (UNM) was awarded a $200,000 Block Grant from the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) to support a project titled "QUANTUM DIGITAL TWINS". The award period runs from September 1, 2024 to August 31, 2025. The project will deliver advanced research and technical services in the field of quantum information science, a key focus area of the DOE Office of Science's funding priorities. As a Hispanic-Serving...
The University of New Mexico (UNM) was awarded a $3 million project grant from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) to establish the Quantum Photonics Aims to Advance Quantum Technologies training program from July 2023 through June 2028. The program will provide cross-disciplinary graduate training in quantum photonics to 175 students, including 25 trainees who will receive funding. Trainees will develop expertise in quantum sensing, quantum networks, nonlinear...
This Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Department of Defense, under the Basic Scientific Research program (CFDA 12.431), provides $141,067.00 in funding to the University of New Mexico (UNM) for a one-year period from September 30, 2024 to September 29, 2025. The award supports foundational and applied research efforts at UNM across diverse scientific and technical domains critical to national security, such as quantum computing, artificial intelligence, materials science, and defense...
The University of New Mexico (UNM) was awarded a $799,298 Project Grant from the Office of the Secretary of Defense on May 15, 2023 to complete work by May 14, 2027. The grant supports UNM's project entitled "Multifunctional High Performance Smart Thin Films for Microsystem Applications" under the Department of Defense's Basic, Applied, and Advanced Research in Science and Engineering program (CFDA 12.630). This program aims to support basic, applied, or advanced research with good...
The University of New Mexico (UNM) was awarded a $605,933 project grant from the Department of Defense (DOD) under the Basic, Applied, and Advanced Research in Science and Engineering program (CFDA 12.630). The grant, which runs from September 1, 2024 to August 31, 2025, will fund the development of a reactive co-sputtering tool for depositing complex multifunctional ternary and quaternary thin film materials. This research project aims to advance materials science capabilities with potential...
The University of New Mexico was awarded a $241,884 project grant from the Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory to develop efficient numerical methods for studying the complexity versus robustness tradeoff in noisy intermediate-scale quantum (NISQ) information processors. The grant was awarded on September 15, 2022 under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA #12.800) and will be completed by September 14, 2023. The Air Force Defense Research Sciences...
The University of New Mexico received a $580,433 Project Grant award from the Office of the Secretary of Defense on August 1, 2022 to develop a high-speed flow characterization system under the Basic, Applied, and Advanced Research in Science and Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 12.630). The grant will support the University's research efforts to design and build an instrumentation platform to characterize fluid flows at high speeds, with the goal of contributing technology for Department...