UNM assistant professor of literacy Dr. Mary Frances Rice recently co-authored multiple publications on the rising importance of the work by instructional designers to support impartial education during COVID-19. The work includes an article in Information and Learning Sciences called Self-regulated learning in online learning environments: strategies for remote learning and two in the Distance Education […] Read More
Women in STEM this year took on topics including viruses, better ways to get rid of human waste, and disaster risk analysis Despite the formidable challenges of scientific discovery during a pandemic, women in STEM at UNM continued their research in 2021 on everything from cosmic microwaves to communication disorders. Stories on our […] Read More
The UNM administration and UA UNM have been addressing the impact of COVID-19 on faculty through a variety of policy and process changes. Advance at UNM has compiled the changes related to milestone evaluations below, including the opt-out tenure extension for faculty who started before January 2021, and the flexibility faculty have to document the pandemic’s […] Read More
Title with Advance at UNM: Graduate research assistant Your background in academia: Naila deCruz-Dixon is PhD student in the Clinical Psychology program with an emphasis in Positive and Diversity/Multicultural Psychology. She earned her B.A. in English and Philosophy from Vassar College and her M.S. in Narrative Medicine from Columbia University. Her research focuses on […] Read More
Hear from four University of New Mexico faculty members about their research in 7-minute presentations during the Lightning Lounge event. The October 2021 speakers at the Lightning Lounge were: Diana Dragomir, an assistant professor of physics and astronomy whose presentation was “Planets Around Other Stars: Looking Beyond the Search for Life,” Paulo Dutra, an assistant […] Read More
A major initiative at UNM to recognize and support the work of women STEM faculty started with an anonymous donation of $1.5 million in 2015.Since then, the donation has fueled research on brain stimulus and substance abuse, the engineering of bones and ligaments and the tracing of pueblo pottery. Awards to 38 women also have […] Read More
UNM Biology Professor Jenn Rudgers leads a team of researchers at one of the largest NSF projects in New Mexico, the Sevilleta Long-Term Ecological Research project. Scientists at the Sevilleta National Wildlife Refuge are examining various aspects of climate change. See our videos of the work being done at the site south of Albuquerque.
Hear from five University of New Mexico postdocs about their research in 7-minute presentations during this special Lightning Lounge event in honor of Postdoc Appreciation Week. The speakers for the September 2021 Lightning Lounge were: Ottavia Benedicenti, a Postdoctoral Fellow in Biology whose presentation was An exotic example of the transition from water […] Read More
