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14 UNM faculty members chosen for the 2024 Women in STEM Awards
The 11 funded projects include a study of carbon storage in soils along the middle Rio Grande floodplain, an investigation into rural New Mexico healthcare workforce challenges and opportunities, and the development of new software for large scale 3-D printing with adobe Fourteen faculty members at the University of New Mexico have been selected […] Read More
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Dr. Jordan DeBrine, Special Education
Name:Dr. Jordan DeBrine Title:Assistant Professor Department:Special Education Describe your research in about 200 words.My research interests focus on increasing the generality of behavioral intervention amongst clients who engage in severe problem behavior, empirical integration of client choice and autonomy within behavioral assessment and treatment, and the application of behavior analytic practices to increase client safety and inclusivity across […] Read More
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Dr. Xiaoxuan Qu, Individual, Family& Community Education
Name:Dr. Xiaoxuan Qu Title:Assistant Professor Department:Individual, Family, & Community Education Describe your research in about 200 words.I am a counselor educator and completed my Ph.D. in Counselor Education and Supervision at Syracuse University. My research revolves around counselor education, training, and andragogy. In particular, I study the phenomena of constructing and developing professional identity and theoretical orientation to […] Read More
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Dr. Tomek Falkowski, Honors College
Name: Dr. Tomek Falkowski Title: Assistant Professor Department: Honors College Describe your research in about 200 words. I am an applied ecologist who takes an interdisciplinary lens to study socioecological systems, thereby understanding how we can restore reciprocal relationships between ecological and human communities, for the benefit of both. My research spans […] Read More
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Dr. Cortny Stark, Individual, Family & Community Education
Name: Dr. Cortny Stark Title: Assistant Professor Department: Individual, Family, & Community Education Describe your research in about 200 words. Research really is “me-search”! All of my areas of interest are close to home in some way, and I consistently utilize qualitative methods to allow the voices of participants to describe the […] Read More
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UNM faculty information and opportunities guide
Find a variety of faculty development opportunities on our events calendar.
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Margo Hurlocker
Title with Advance / FIRST Evaluation Core Co-investigator Your background in academia: Margo Hurlocker is an assistant professor of psychology at UNM. Her research focuses on the etiology, prevention, and treatment of substance use disorder comorbidity, with an emphasis on improving how services are provided in clinical and community settings. She is also a […] Read More
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Autumn Sutherland
Title with Advance / FIRST Evaluation Core: Graduate Research Assistant Your background in academia: Autumn Sutherland is a Ph.D. student in Clinical Psychology. She earned her B.A. in Psychology from Trinity University in San Antonio, TX. In short, her research interests revolve around ethnic/racial minorities, body image, obesity, eating disorders, women’s health, and health-promoting […] Read More
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Morgan Pettit
Title with Advance / FIRST Evaluation Core Program Planning Manager Your background in academia: Morgan Pettit has served as the FIRST Program Planning Manager since the beginning of the grant in 2022. Her other academic experience is working in the UNM Biology Department from 2015-2017 so she was pleased to return to the university […] Read More
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Katie Witkiewitz
Title with Advance / FIRST Evaluation Core: Co-Lead/Multiple Principal Investigator Your background in academia: Professor Katie Witkiewitz is a Distinguished Professor of Psychology and the Director of the Center on Alcohol, Substance use, And Addictions at the University of New Mexico. Her research examines treatment of substance use disorder, with an emphasis on reducing […] Read More
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Hayley VanderJagt
Title with Advance / FIRST Evaluation Core: Graduate Research Assistant Your background in academia: Hayley VanderJagt, M.S., is a graduate student in UNM’s department of Clinical Psychology. Her research and therapeutic endeavors center around body image, intuitive eating, and diet culture. Hayley strongly believes that social institutions are at their strongest when they are […] Read More
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Faculty Fanfare: Mala Htun
UNM Political Science Professor Mala Htun has been elected as a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, an honorary society and research center founded in 1780. “I’ve known of the Academy for a long time, because I lived across the street from its forested grounds when I was a graduate student […] Read More
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Faculty experiences with UNM campus climate mixed, according to new Advance survey
Fall 2023 survey finds faculty are engaged with the work they do, but struggling with well-being and inequities A new survey by Advance at UNM finds that full-time, main campus faculty report a complex mix of organizational experiences and attitudes. The fall 2023 survey found, for example, high levels of work and teaching […] Read More
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2024 summer camp guide
Have work to do or just looking to give your kids a cool summer experience? Albuquerque has camps for everything from sewing to horseback riding to opera and more! Check out our list of summer camps around the city. Registration for many camps starts early in the year and continues until camps are full.
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Academic Freedom on Campus: Professional and Personal Reflections
In this webinar, distinguished UNM Constitutional law scholars and the chair of the Committee on Academic Freedom and Tenure explored the multifaceted concept of academic freedom through historical, legal, and practical lenses. Panelists shared diverse strategies for navigating challenges in academia. Don’t miss this opportunity to gain unique insights into this current topic! […] Read More
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Faculty Fanfare: Meeko Oishi
UNM Electrical and Computer Engineering Professor Meeko Oishi gave a keynote speech at the 2024 NSF Cyber-Physical Systems Principal Investigators’ Meeting at Vanderbilt University in March. The speech, which focused on the importance of designing for human heterogeneity in cyber-physical systems, was at a meeting of principal investigators of NSF awards that are part of […] Read More
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Faculty Fanfare: Amanda Bienz
UNM Assistant Professor of Computer Science Amanda Bienz has received an NSF CAREER Award to explore ways to enhance the performance of parallel applications on emerging supercomputers. With the award, Bienz hopes to find the best ways to solve problems using supercomputers whose software capabilities need to evolve as quickly as the powerful hardware […] Read More
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Faculty Fanfare: Melvatha Chee
UNM Assistant Professor Melvatha Chee has received the Mary R. Haas Award from the Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas for her work on the Diné language. The award is presented to “a junior scholar for an unpublished manuscript that makes a significant, substantive contribution about Indigenous languages of […] Read More
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Faculty Fanfare: Martina Laidemitt
UNM biology adjunct associate professor Martina Laidemitt is the lead author on a journal article that reveals the presence of compatible snail hosts to the pathogenic parasitic flatworm, Heterobilharzia americana in New Mexico – outside its normal habitat and on a new host. The parasite, H. americana, regularly infects dogs, horses, and raccoons, and […] Read More
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Academic freedom on campus: resources and information
As faculty and staff on college campuses across the country grapple with issues of academic freedom and free speech, it can be hard to know how to handle discussions with students and colleagues, and when it’s appropriate to speak out on current issues. What do these concepts mean on a practical level? How can UNM […] Read More
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Equitable decisions in academia: minimizing bias and applying best practices
In all parts of academia, there are opportunities to make equitable decisions based on best practices and with minimal bias. This includes faculty searches, proposal selection committees, chairing effective meetings and more. Yet many of us have questions on how to make the best decisions, from ways to write job ads or calls […] Read More
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Call open for 2024 Women in STEM Awards
Proposals are due May 14, 2024. Applications are now being accepted for the Advance at UNM 2024 Women In STEM awards. The awards, now in their ninth year at UNM, range from $3,000 to $15,000, and three types of grants will be given. The categories include travel awards to foster collaborations, seed awards […] Read More
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UNM Faculty Lightning Lounge 02/07/2024
Hear from four University of New Mexico branch campus faculty members about their research in 7-minute presentations during this Lightning Lounge event. The February 2024 speakers at the Lightning Lounge were: Sarah Llanque-White, an associate professor of nursing at UNM Gallup, whose talk is Integrating Navajo (Dine) Culture and Ways of Life into Nursing […] Read More
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Dr. Andrea McQuate, Biology
Name: Dr. Andrea McQuate Title: Assistant Professor Department: Biology Describe your research in about 200 words. My research focuses on the role of mitochondria in the preservation of hearing and balance. We seek to understand how these “powerhouses of the cell” form morphologies and phenotypes that are specific to cells in the […] Read More