New Astronomy and Physics professor will continue cosmic microwave background research at UNM Dr. Darcy Barron will be joining UNM’s Physics and Astronomy Department as a new assistant professor starting in the fall of 2018. Barron hails from UC Berkeley, where she has been an NSF Astronomy and Astrophysics postdoctoral fellow since 2015. […] Read More
Title with Advance at UNM: Communication team member Your background: Felina recently graduated UNM with a degree in Interdisciplinary Film & Digital Media and a minor in Journalism. Currently, she is using these skills to help further the mission of Advance by sharing and promoting the stories of women in STEM on campus. Why were […] Read More
Ten women scientists at the University of New Mexico have been selected for the 2018 Women in STEM awards. Their work on eight separate projects includes research on smart grass that could generate energy, head injuries in professional fighters and better ways to take medicine. Other winners of the research awards will consider how to […] Read More
Researchers including a UNM biology professor have demonstrated that mammal biodiversity loss, a major conservation concern today, is part of a long-term trend lasting at least 125,000 years. As archaic humans, Neanderthals and other hominin species migrated out of Africa, a wave of size biased extinction in mammals followed. This occurred on all continents and […] Read More
Post from RICOH THETA. – Spherical Image – RICOH THETA Use your mouse to move around this 360 image and see the new Farris Engineering Building. The renovated Farris Engineering Center has new classrooms, labs and offices for the students, faculty and staff of the School of Engineering. Much of the renovation focused on making […] Read More
Associate professors got advice and learned about resources for moving on to full professor during a panel hosted by Advance at UNM. Audience members heard about goal setting, understanding expectations and seeking support from others so they can avoid stalling out. Presenters included Advance at UNM director Julia Fulghum, Mary Jo Daniel, director of UNM’s […] Read More
The UNM Center for Teaching and Learning 2016-2017 teaching fellows showed off their teaching skills as well as their methods and practices on how they are incorporating different and modern methods of teaching to improve learning and interest here at UNM. Due to technical difficulties, the presentation of Dr. Leandra Boucheron (above) is not displayed. […] Read More
Last fall, Advance at UNM partnered with collaborators from Dartmouth College to look at differences in attitudes toward faculty diversity among faculty and students. The preliminary results confirm that respondents place high priority on candidates with excellent records on research, teaching, and community engagement. Holding other characteristics equal, respondents also show a marked preference for […] Read More
We’ve had a lot of interest so far in the 2018 Women in STEM awards. See the call here and read the FAQ here.
A new study finds women professors are asked for favors more often than male professors. According to research at Eastern Washington University, female professors deal with more requests from students asking for special favors like grade increases and the opportunity to re-do assignments. Read more here.
Hard to believe that spring break is right around the corner! For UNM, spring break is the week of March 12. But for APS, the break is the week of March 26. We have been working on the issue of non-aligned breaks and the problems it can cause for UNM employees with children. The good […] Read More
Rebecca Gill, a professor of political science at the University of Nevada at Las Vegas, is sharing her experience of sexual harassment. She’s gotten support as well as backlash. Advance at UNM Deputy Director Mala Htun was quoted in the article about Gill and the larger #metoo and #metooPhd movements. Read more here.
Using data about the lack of women in the profession, women in economics are forcing a reckoning over bias. This movement was on display at one recent gathering of the American Economic Association. Read more in the New York Times.
Advance at UNM has developed talking points for members of search committees to use during candidate interviews and visits to help highlight all of Albuquerque’s positive aspects. Download the guide here. recruitment_ABQ_talkingpoints
Do you have questions about UNM policies? Understanding and interpreting university policy can be tricky if you don’t know where to start. To help, we’ve put together this guide of faculty policies, which you can also download here. Can’t find what you’re looking for? Found it but aren’t sure how to interpret it? In general, […] Read More
We’ve compiled some research about how students evaluate faculty in STEM disciplines. See how data generated by student evaluations are subject to gender- and race-related biases in our brief literature review. Download the guide here.
We’ve developed a protocol for working with candidates when they visit Albuquerque. Download the guide here.
Social media can be a great tool for researchers and academics! Learn how to use social media in the classroom and for your research and networking in this series of videos with Clarissa Sorensen-Unruh, a full time CNM chemistry faculty member and UNM adjunct chemistry faculty member and Kate Cunningham, the director of communication and social media […] Read More
The literature on letters of recommendation for faculty candidates suggests that there are substantive differences between letters written for male candidates and those written for women. This document summarizes the findings from that literature. Keeping these issues in mind when writing and reading letters of recommendation may help to reduce some of the gender bias […] Read More
Harvard Sociology Professor Frank Dobbin will speak Oct. 6 at noon about what works and what doesn’t work to get more women and minorities into leadership positions. Register for the event here.
Our first year of institutional transformation is coming to an end. It’s been an amazing journey. We’ve hosted eight workshops and panels, engaged with UNM leaders at various levels, and worked for change on ideas ranging from aligning UNM and APS spring breaks, to decreasing inequities in service loads, to helping search committees find more […] Read More
The vast majority of UNM faculty, graduate students, and staff strongly support having the university’s spring break at the same time of the break for Albuquerque Public Schools, a study by Advance at UNM has found. Eighty two percent of faculty strongly support alignment while 79 percent of staff expressed strong support in the survey done […] Read More
Hi Meta Mentor, I am a faculty who has two little kids going to the Children’s Campus. UNM Children’s Campus is usually closed on the Thursday-Friday immediately before the academic year begins for professional development. These two days are very important for faculty and students prepare for the new academic year. Having no child care, […] Read More
