Name: Dr. Olivia Tucker   Title: Assistant Professor   Department: Music Education   Describe your research in about 200 words. I am fascinated by how music education freshmen enter college as students and immediately begin developing teacher identities. I study how teacher identity is shaped by personal experiences both in and out of the classroom. In […] Read More

Name: Dr. Ashley Phelps   Title: Visiting Assistant Professor   Department: Health, Exercise and Sports Sciences: Physical Education Teacher Education   Describe your research in about 200 words. I study attitudes towards technology use in physical education from a preservice physical education teacher perspective. Additionally, I am interested in technological pedagogical content knowledge and how […] Read More

Name: Dr. Dave Keating   Title: Assistant Professor   Department: Communication & Journalism   Describe your research in about 200 words. My primary research examines social influence processes and health communication topics. Much of my current work investigates how people process persuasive messaging and how they are affected by the messages they receive. This work often […] Read More

Name: Dr. Miriam Gay-Antaki Title: Assistant Professor Department: Department of Geography and Environmental Studies   Describe your research in about 200 words. My work focuses on human-environment relations in the era of anthropogenic global climate change. I draw from the frameworks of political ecology and feminist geography to trace climate change policy development as a series […] Read More

Name: Dr. Claus Danielson Title: Assistant Professor Department: Mechanical Engineering Describe your research in about 200 words. My research interests are in optimization, planning, and control. My specialty is developing methods for exploiting structure in large-scale or complex control and optimization problems. I have applied my research to a variety of fields including robotics, autonomous driving, […] Read More

Name: Dr. Tania Reynolds   Title: Assistant Professor   Department: Psychology   Describe your research in about 200 words. My research examines social processes from an evolutionary perspective. I am especially interested in women’s same-sex competition and cooperation. For example, my work finds that competition for romantic partners may contribute to women’s body dissatisfaction and disordered […] Read More

Name: Dr. Dongchang Chen   Title: Assistant Professor   Department: Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology   Describe your research in about 200 words. The urgent demand for reliable, sustainable, and environmentally friendly renewable energy sources is a grand challenge for the fast-growing modern industry. Dr. Chen’s research seeks to resolve critical chemical processes for energy […] Read More

Name: Dr. Katherine Sarah Massoth   Title: Assistant Professor   Department: History   Describe your research in about 200 words. I am a historian of North America, particularly the Southwest, the West, and U.S.-Mexico Borderlands, from the Spanish Colonial Era through the nineteenth century. My interdisciplinary and intersectional approach to research and teaching embraces several themes: […] Read More

Name: Dr. Sarah McCoy   Title: Assistant Professor   Department: Accounting   Describe your research in about 200 words. My research interests are in the areas of financial reporting and corporate disclosure.   What’s the most interesting thing you have learned from a student? I have had some inquisitive students over my years of teaching. Many […] Read More

Name: Dr. Matthew Forte   Title: Director of Orchestral Studies, Assistant Professor of Music   Department: Music   Describe your research in about 200 words. I conduct the UNM Symphony Orchestra, teach courses in conducting, and advocate for music education and general music literacy. My research explores multicultural approaches to performance practice studies in music, with […] Read More