UNM History
This is the mascot of the University of New Mexico.
What is the Lobo?
What year was the American Nuclear Society (ANS) established?
What is 1954
Who won two Nobel Prizes for their work in radioactivity research and nuclear medicine?
Who is Marie Curie
As a kid, this UNM ANS E-Board member designed and built their own PC and VR video games.
Who is our Treasurer Peter
What radioactive element used to be used in glassware and dishes?
What is uranium?
The University of New Mexico was founded in this year.
What is 1889
ANS was founded in this U.S. city.
What is Washington, D.C.?
What is the name of the first nuclear reactor?
What is Chicago Pile 1
The combined cost of this ANS E-Board member’s LEGO collection might exceed a semester of tuition.
Who is our External Communications Officer Dylan
What movie monster acts a metaphor for the destructive power of nuclear weapons?
What is Godzilla?
This is the name of UNM’s main campus newspaper.
What is the Daily Lobo
This is the free food that mysteriously increases ANS meeting attendance by at least 200 percent.
What is pizza
What article of clothing/jewelry contained radium in it?
What is a watch
Before nuclear engineering, this ANS E-Board member was raising a cow named “Hippo.”
Who is our Policy Officer Chelsea
This unit is commonly used to measure radiation dose absorbed by biological tissue.
What is the rem?
(or the sievert)
UNM’s 3 official school colors are.
What is cherry, silver, turquoise
This year’s ANS Student Conference is being hosted in this city.
What is Texas A&M
What element was radioactivity first scientifically observed in?
What is uranium
When they are not attending ANS meetings, this E-Board member can be found snowboarding.
Who is our Historian Louis
In the 1950s, the US Air Force proposed we detonate a nuke on [blank].
What is the Moon?
This year marked the founding of the UNM American Nuclear Society student chapter.
What is 1967?
Approximately how many active ANS student sections are there?
What is about 60
What defense contractor created the first nuclear powered submarine?
What is General Dynamics Electric Boat
This UNM ANS E-Board member has built their own homemade radiation detector.
Who is our Vice President Taya
This term describes a reactor condition in which the multiplication factor k equals 1.
What is critical