Welcome to the New Mexico Consortium

NMC MISSION

The New Mexico Consortium (NMC) is a non-profit corporation formed by the three New Mexico Universities under a teaming agreement with The University of California (UC) to partner with Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) to advance scientific research and education in New Mexico. The NMC

Leverages the strengths of three research universities to achieve common goals,
Builds joint programs in support of common interests,
Develops strategic partnerships with government, industry and other universities in support of the partnership, and
Provides common organization and facilities to support these initiatives.

The NMC's Focus areas are Bio-Security, Energy, High Performance Computing and Nanotechnology. For access to the full web sites for these initiatives, please join the NMC Network. The NMC Network provides information about NM University and LANL staff research interests in these areas, research working groups, external funding targets, workshops and conferences and other information about these initiatives.

Infectious Disease

Assessing Disease Progression. This international collaboration seeks to create the scientific foundation and infrastructure for rapid assessment of bacterial diseases that will build upon the increasing availability of low-cost quantitative cellular and nucleotide sequencing technologies in clinic and research labs.

Bio-security. This initiative seeks to achieve science and technology breakthroughs in understanding and mitigating threats to national security, public health, and agriculture from natural, emerging, and engineered infectious agents. The NMC partners with LANL's Center for Bio-security Science to develop bio-security programs.

Nanotechnology

The Nano-Bio Interface. The NMC is developing programs in Bioimaging and Fluorescence, Nanotoxicity, Nano-treatment of Disease, Bioengineering, Bioinformatics and Computational Biology.

Novel Nanomaterials for Energy. The NMC is developing programs in Catalysis for Fuel Cell Design, CleanTech and Green Energy, Photovoltaics at the nanoscale. This program partners with LANL Institutes Office and the Center for Integrated Nano Technologies through Andy Shreve (shreve at lanl.gov)

Energy AND ENVIRONMENT

The NMC is developing a broad range of collaborative programs in alternative energy (geothermal, solar), energy storage, green grid design, carbon sequestration, and climate modeling. The NMC works in partnership with LANL's Energy Security Center.

Astrophysics and cosmology

This initiative is an umbrella for targeted programs in observational and theoretical astrophysics and cosmology. It is a partnership LANL's Astrophysics and Cosmology Center.