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
A group of UNM professors has received the 2016 Women in STEM awards honoring their research in diverse areas of inquiry including brain stimulation and substance abuse, sustainable food and energy, gender and kinship systems, engineering bones and ligaments, modeling planetary fault lines, and the media’s effects on public views.The winners are the first in a […] Read More
A research team has described a novel tabletop display system that allows multiple viewers to simultaneously view a hologram showing a full 3-D image as they walk around the tabletop, giving complete 360-degree access. Source: STEM news
Ancient DNA research has revealed that Ice Age cave artists recorded a previously unknown hybrid species of bison and cattle in great detail on cave walls more than 15,000 years ago. Source: STEM news
Brittany Ortiz Title with Advance at UNM: Survey and data analyst Your background: Brittany Ortiz received her B.A. in Political Science and an M.A. in Public Policy, both from the University of New Mexico. Before joining the Advance team she was a data manager and research analyst at Research & Polling in Albuquerque. Why were […] Read More
Annual healthcare costs and lost earnings in the United States from low-level but daily exposure to hazardous chemicals commonly found in plastic bottles, metal food cans, detergents, flame retardants, toys, cosmetics, and pesticides, exceeds $340 billion, according to a detailed economic analysis. Source: STEM news
The “flash drought” that unexpectedly gripped the U.S. Southern Rockies and Midwest in the summer of 2012 could have been predicted months in advance using soil moisture and snowpack data, according to new research. Scientists at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) analyzed the conditions leading to the 2012 drought — which resulted […] Read More
Walking briskly or cycling for the recommended 150 minutes a week can reduce a person’s risk of developing type 2 diabetes by up to 26%, according to new research. Source: STEM news
Christina Salas Honor: 2016 Women In STEM award winner Title: an assistant professor in UNM’s Department of Mechanical Engineering Winning project: Engineering the Bone-Ligament Interface through 3D Bioprinting/Electrospinning Project focus: The work targets delineating the interrelationship between a hybrid material fabrication technique, the structure of each material phase, and multi-scale mechanical properties of a biocomposite […] Read More
Lindsay Worthington Honor: 2016 Women In STEM award winner Title: assistant professor, Department of Earth and Planetary Science Winning project: What Lies Beneath the Dunes? Geophysical Modeling of Subsurface Structure in White Sands National Monument Project focus: The project examines the influence of subsurface geology and earth structure on dune migration patterns in the world’s […] Read More
JingJing Wang Honor: 2016 Women In STEM award winner Title: assistant professor, Department of Economics Winning project: Integrated Modeling and Policy Evaluation for Sustainable Food, Energy, and Water Systems: A Case Study of the Dairy Industry in New Mexico Project focus: the work focuses on using the dairy industry in New Mexico as a case […] Read More
Jessica Feezell Honor: 2016 Women In STEM travel award winner Title: assistant professor, Department of Political Science Winning project: Experimental Analysis of Framing Effects on Blame Attributions and Attitudes Towards Muslim Americans Project focus: the work focuses on the ways that news frames influence how the public identifies the causes of, and attributes blame for, […] Read More
Siobhan Mattison Honor: 2106 Women In STEM workshop award winner Title: assistant professor, Department of Anthropology Winning project: The Dynamics of Gender in Matrilineal Kinship Systems Project focus: Her project focuses on gender roles in systems of kinship that are biased toward females. Her workshop in February 2017 will bring together leading experts on kinship […] Read More
