UNM Assistant Professor of Anthropology Siobhán Mattison won a New Investigator award from the Evolutionary Anthropology Section of the American Anthropological Association after she presented at an American Anthropological Association conference. Mattison was awarded for her research in 2015 on the preference of having a son or a daughter among the Mosuo, an ethnic minority […] Read More
Title with Advance at UNM:ConsultantYour background in academia:Abigail J. Stewart is the Sandra Schwartz Tangri Distinguished University Professor of Psychology and Women’s Studies at the University of Michigan, where she was Director of the UM ADVANCE Program from 2002 to 2016. Her current research examines educated women’s lives and personalities; women’s movement activism both in […] Read More
UNM computer science prof partners with NASA for Swarmathon 2017 Melanie Moses, an associate professor of computer science at the University of New Mexico, has taken NASA space exploration by swarm. In coordination with NASA, Moses and her team have created an annual NASA Swarmathon aimed at developing robotics to revolutionize the way we explore […] Read More
Dr. Jennifer Freyd, a psychology professor at the University of Oregon and a national authority on institutional betrayal and sexual violence, will speak at the University of New Mexico on Feb. 6 as the keynote speaker of the Campus Sexual Violence: Research and Response seminar. Since graduating with a doctorate degree in psychology from Stanford […] Read More
Meriah Heredia-Griego Title with Advance at UNM: Internal evaluation team member Your background in academia: I am the director and research assistant professor of the UNM Center for Education Policy Research, (CEPR) which partners with key education agencies and stakeholders to conduct applied research in the areas of education policy and program evaluation. As the […] Read More
Elizabeth Yakes Jimenez Title with Advance at UNM: Primary investigator, internal evaluation team Your background in academia: Dr. Elizabeth Yakes Jimenez is a pediatric registered dietitian with a B.S. in human nutrition and an M.S. in public health nutrition from Case Western Reserve University, and a Ph.D. in epidemiology from the University of California, Davis. […] Read More
Title with Advance at UNM: Leadership team member Your background in academia: Melanie E. Moses is a Professor of Computer Science at the University of New Mexico and an External Faculty Member at the Santa Fe Institute. She earned a B.S. from Stanford University in Symbolic Systems and a Ph.D. in Biology from UNM. […] Read More
Title with Advance at UNM: Leadership team member Your background in academia: Steven P. Verney, Ph.D., is an Alaska Native (Tsimshian) professor in the department of psychology at UNM. His research and professional interests include cultural factors in cognitive assessment, cognitive aging, cultural psychology, and health inequities in underserved populations, especially American Indians and […] Read More
Title with Advance at UNM: Social Science Research team member Your background in academia: Dr. Kamilla Venner is an associate professor in Psychology and is a UNM alumna. Her research aims to reduce health disparities for American Indians/Alaska Natives by focusing on culturally tailoring evidence-based treatment and highlighting cultural strengths. Currently, she has federal funding […] Read More
Kate Krause Title with Advance at UNM: Social Science Research Team member Your background in academia: Dr. Kate Krause is a professor of economics at the University of New Mexico and serves as the dean of University College and the Honors College. She earned her B.A. in economics at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities […] Read More
Call opens for 2017 Women In STEM awards at UNM Women faculty in UNM’s STEM fields can now apply for a variety of grants as part of the 2017 Women In STEM awards The awards are supported by an anonymous gift made to UNM to support research by, and professorships for, women […] Read More
Melissa Axelrod recognized with Linguistic Society of America’s Kenneth Hale Award UNM Linguistics Professor Melissa Axelrod has received a national award from the Linguistic Society of America for her work studying endangered and extinct languages. “I was more than a little surprised to receive this award,” Axelrod said. I am extremely grateful to my supportive […] Read More
In the fall of 2016, we asked you to help us by completing a survey designed to give us a snapshot of life on campus as we began to design and roll out the Advance program. As promised, here is a summary of some of the interesting survey results including levels of trust on […] Read More
Four finalists for UNM’s dean of engineering and computing at the School of Engineering will be on campus this month and in early December. The finalists for the position, named the Jim and Ellen King Dean of Engineering and Computing, are Christos Christodoulou, Naz Karim, JoAnn Lighty, and Ed Seebauer. The applicants are from UNM, Texas […] Read More
Donald Trump has emerged as the winner of the 2016 presidential election, after an exhausting and often bitter campaign. Many members of the UNM community, and the country as a whole, have strong feelings about the result. Some feel fear, anger, and sadness. Others are filled with excitement, hope, and relief. Many women, but not […] Read More
Ecologists take a comprehensive look at sagebrush habitat through the eyes of a small, but important, resident Full story at https://www.nsf.gov/news/special_reports/science_nation/foragingrabbits.jsp?WT.mc_id=USNSF_51 This is an NSF News item. Source: NSF news
Mousumi Roy Honor: 2016 Women In STEM award winner Title: professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy Winning project: What Lies Beneath the Dunes? Geophysical Modeling of Subsurface Structure in White Sands National Monument. Project focus: The project looks at the influence of subsurface geology and earth structure on dune migration patterns in the world’s largest […] Read More
Changes in ocean temperature affect a key species of phytoplankton, according to scientists at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF). Their study, published in this week’s issue of the journal Science, tracked levels of Synechococcus — a tiny bacterium common in marine ecosystems — near the coast […] Read More
Millions of years ago, one species of frog diverged into two species. Millions of years later, the two frogs became one again, but with a few extra chromosomes due to whole genome duplication. Such is the curious case of the African clawed frog, a frog whose genome contains nearly double the number of chromosomes as […] Read More
Researchers have observed wild-bearded capuchin monkeys in Brazil deliberately break stones, unintentionally creating flakes that share many of the characteristics of those produced by early Stone Age hominins. The difference is that the capuchins’ flakes are not intentional tools for cutting and scraping, but seem to be the by-product of hammering or ‘percussive behavior’ that […] Read More
The National Science Foundation (NSF) is pleased to announce the most recent awardees for the NSF Research Traineeship (NRT) program, designed to encourage the development and implementation of bold, new, potentially transformative models for graduate education in the fields of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM). “Innovative and interdisciplinary approaches will be key to […] Read More
The National Science Foundation (NSF) and Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC) have jointly awarded $21.6 million for <a … More at https://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=190060&WT.mc_id=USNSF_51&WT.mc_ev=click This is an NSF News item. Source: NSF news
