Beatriz Palacios Title with Advance at UNM: Communication Intern Your background in academia: Beatriz Palacios is a senior studying Computer Science and Interdisciplinary Film and Digital Media at the University of New Mexico. Beatriz was born and raised in Caracas, Venezuela, and moved to Albuquerque to attend UNM. Through her involvement with the local community, Beatriz […] Read More
Title with Advance at UNM: Director of communication and social media Your background in academia: Kate created the Advance at UNM multimedia communication internship program. She is a multimedia communication educator who loves all things technology related. Her bachelor’s degree is in journalism and Spanish and she has a master’s degree in digital journalism […] Read More
Adrian Abeyta Title with Advance at UNM: Communication Intern Your background: Adrian Abeyta is a third year student at the University of New Mexico majoring in mechanical engineering and minoring in mathematics. Adrian has worked at the Los Alamos National Laboratories specializing in nuclear waste projects. As a former Youth Conservation Corps crew leader, Adrian has lead […] Read More
Cristina Takacs-Vesbach Title with Advance at UNM: Additional Faculty Member Team Your background in academia: Dr. Cristina Takacs-Vesbach earned a B.A. from the University of Colorado, Boulder and her Ph.D. from Montana State University in Biology in 1999. She is currently a Professor in the Department of Biology and the Director of the UNM MARC […] Read More
Lindsay Smith Title with Advance at UNM: Internal Advisory Board Your background in academia: Lindsay Smith graduated from Rice University in 2002 with a bachelor’s degree in Psychology. Smith then received her master’s degree in Anthropology from Harvard University in 2004. At the University of New Mexico, Smith teaches in the department of Anthropology serving […] Read More
Nancy Jackson Title with Advance at UNM: External Advisory Board Your background in academia: Nancy Jackson receives a Bachelor’s degree in Chemistry from George Washington University in 1979. She then went on to the University of Texas at Austin where she received a Master’s degree in Chemical Engineering in 1986 and a Doctorate degree in […] Read More
Christopher Erwin Title with Advance at UNM: Internal Evaluation Team Member Your background in academia: Christopher Erwin is a PhD candidate in the Department of Economics at the University of New Mexico. At UNM he has taught courses in Math Tools for Economists, Intermediate Microeconomics, and Intermediate Econometrics. His research lies at the intersection of […] Read More
Noah Michelsohn Title with Advance at UNM: Communication Intern Your background in academia: Noah Michelsohn is a junior at the University of New Mexico studying strategic communication. At UNM, Michelsohn is the president of the Alpha Tau Omega fraternity as well as a committee member of LoboTHON. Outside of the university, Michelsohn has spent time […] Read More
García Bedolla Title with Advance at UNM: External Advisory Board Your background in academia: Professor García Bedolla’s research focuses on how marginalization and inequality structure the political and educational opportunities available to members of ethnoracial groups, with a particular emphasis on the intersections of race, class, and gender. Her current projects include an analysis of […] Read More
Frank Dobbin Title with Advance at UNM: External Advisory Board Your background in academia: Frank Dobbin received his B.A. from Oberlin College in 1980 and his Ph.D. from Stanford University in 1987. Dobbin studies organizations, inequality, economic behavior, and public policy. His Inventing Equal Opportunity (Princeton 2009) shows how corporate personnel managers defined what it […] Read More
Denise Sekaquaptewa Title with Advance at UNM: External Advisory Board Your background in academia: Denise Sekaquaptewa, Ph.D., is Professor of Psychology, and Faculty Associate at the Research Center for Group Dynamics in the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
Sonya T. Smith Title with Advance at UNM: External Advisory Board Your background in academia: Dr. Sonya T. Smith joined the Howard University faculty in 1995 and is the first tenured female faculty member in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and recently became the first woman promoted to the highest academic rank of Professor (full) […] Read More
Geraldine Forbes Isais Title with Advance at UNM: Internal Advisory Board Your background in academia: Geraldine Forbes Isais, Associate AIA, is dean of the School of Architecture and Planning at the University of New Mexico. In 2006 Forbes Isais received the acclaimed Distinguished Professor Award from the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture and in […] Read More
Irene Vásquez Title with Advance at UNM: Internal Advisory Board Your background in academia: Dr. Irene Vásquez received her doctorate degree from the History Department at the University of California, Los Angeles. She holds the position of Founding Chair of the Chicana and Chicano Studies Department at the University of New Mexico. Under her leadership, […] Read More
Sonia Gipson Rankin Title with Advance at UNM: Internal Advisory Board Your background in academia: Sonia Gipson Rankin, J.D., serves as the Associate Dean for Curriculum and Program Development of University College and a Senior Lecturer in Africana Studies at the University of New Mexico. She has also served as an Adjunct Faculty at the […] Read More
Wolfgang Rudolph Title with Advance at UNM: Internal Advisory Board Your background in academia: Dr. Wolfgang Rudolph serves as the department chair of the Physics and Astronomy department at the University of New Mexico. Rudolph also serves as a professor and a regent’s professor for the department. Rudolph received a doctorate degree from the University […] Read More
Lloyd Lee Title with Advance at UNM: Internal Advisory Board Your background in academia: Dr. Lloyd L. Lee is an associate professor of Native American Studies at the University of New Mexico. Dr. Lee is a citizen of the Navajo Nation. He is Kinyaa’ánii (Towering House), born for Tlááschíí (Red Bottom). His maternal grandfather’s clan […] Read More
Julie Coonrod Title with Advance at UNM: Internal Advisory Board Your background in academia: Dr. Julie E. Allred Coonrod is a professor in the department of Civil Engineering at the University of New Mexico. Coonrod holds a bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering from Vanderbilt University, a master’s degree in Civil Engineering from the University of […] Read More
Gabriel López Title with Advance at UNM: Internal Advisory Board Your background in academia: Dr. Gabriel López is the Vice President for Research at the University of New Mexico. López received a bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Colorado in 1985 and then received a doctorate degree in Chemical Engineering from the […] Read More
Virginia Scharff Title with Advance at UNM: Internal Advisory Board Your background in academia: Dr. Virginia Scharff is Associate Provost for Faculty Development and a Distinguished Professor of History and Director of the Center for the Southwest at the University of New Mexico. Scharff received a bachelor’s degree in American Studies from Yale University in […] Read More
Jane Ellen Smith Title with Advance at UNM: Internal Advisory Board member Your background in academia: I am interested in two major areas of research: eating disorders/obesity and substance use treatment. For the eating disorders/obesity area, I primarily am focusing on risk factors, such as extreme body dissatisfaction. As part of this, I am exploring […] Read More
Janie Chermak Title with Advance at UNM: Internal Advisory Board Your background in academia: Dr. Janie M. Chermak is a professor of Economics at the University of New Mexico. She holds a bachelor’s degree in Geology from Western State College and a masters degree and a doctorate degree in Mineral Economics from the Colorado School […] Read More
Mahmoud Taha Title with Advance at UNM: Internal Advisory Board Your background in academia: Dr. Mahmoud Reda Taha is Professor and Chair of Department of Civil Engineering at University of New Mexico. He received his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Structural Engineering from Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt. He then received his doctorate degree from […] Read More
Yemane Asmerom Title with Advance at UNM: Internal Advisory Board Your background in academia: Yemane Asmerom is a professor of isotope geochemistry at the Department of Earth & Planetary Sciences, the University of New Mexico. He founded and is the director of the Radiogenic Isotope Laboratory. Asmerom was born in Eritrea and moved to the […] Read More
Laurie Crossey Title with Advance at UNM: Internal Advisory Board Your background in academia: Dr. Laura Crossey is a professor and former Chair in the department of Earth and Planetary Sciences at the University of New Mexico. Crossey received her doctorate degree from the University of Wyoming in 1985, and is a Fellow of the […] Read More
