A group of UNM professors has received the 2017 Women in STEM awards to honor their research in diverse areas of inquiry, including bioengineering, exercise science, biology, linguistics, political science and astronomy and physics. Among other topics, the winners are studying minority language development, cell division, non-government agencies in Peru and Bolivia, insulin signaling, qualitative […] Read More
Noami Shin Honor: 2017 Women In STEM research award winner Title: associate professor in the Departments of Spanish and Portuguese and Linguistics Winning project: Minority language development: How do children acquire grammar when exposure to language is limited? Project focus: Along with Jill Morford and Barbara Shaffer, the project examines children’s acquisition of two U.S. minority languages, […] Read More
Barb Shaffer Honor: 2017 Women In STEM research award winner Title: associate professor in the Department of Linguistics Winning project: Minority language development: How do children acquire grammar when exposure to language is limited? Project focus: Along with Naomi Shin and Jill Morford, the project examines children’s acquisition of two U.S. minority languages, Spanish and American […] Read More
Kendra Koivu Honor: 2017 Women In STEM travel award winner Title: assistant professor in the Department of Political Science Winning project: European Consortium for Political Research Methods School: Advanced Course in Qualitative Comparative Analysis Project focus: Koivu will use the funding to travel to Budapest for a two-week intensive workshop on qualitative comparative analysis. Qualitative comparative analysis […] Read More
Ylva Pihlstrom Honor: 2017 Women In STEM travel award winner Title: associate professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy Winning project: Estimating Distances to Dusty Stars. Project focus: Pihlstrom will use the funding to visit the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Los Angeles to survey stars that will help explore the structure of the galaxy […] Read More
Michelle Facette Honor: 2017 Women In STEM seed award winner Title: assistant professor in the Department of Biology Winning project: Development of Fluorescent Protein Marker Lines for Monitoring Cell Division in Maize. Project focus: Facette will further her work on the development of fluorescent protein marker lines for monitoring cell division in maize. Fluorescent proteins allow protein dynamics […] Read More
Jill Morford Honor: 2017 Women In STEM research award Title: professor in the Department of Linguistics Winning project: Minority language development: How do children acquire grammar when exposure to language is limited? Project focus: Along with Naomi Shin and Barbara Shaffer, the project examines children’s acquisition of two U.S. minority languages, Spanish and American Sign Language, and investigates […] Read More
Jami Nelson Nunez Honor: 2017 Women In STEM research award Title: assistant professor in the Political Science Department Winning project: NGO-collaboration in service delivery and Peru and Bolivia. Project focus: Nelson Nunez will investigate interactions between nongovernmental organizations and mayors in decentralized settings around challenges into service delivery. She also will look at the conditions under which collaborations […] Read More
Kristina Trujillo Honor: 2017 Women In STEM research award winner Title: assistant professor in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Winning project: Modulating mitchondrial function to alter insulin signaling in insulin resistant C2C12 cells. Project focus: Along with Christine Mermier, Trujillo will continue their work on understanding the link between mitochondrial function and insulin signaling. This […] Read More
Christine Mermier Honor: 2017 Women In STEM research award winner Title: associate professor in the Exercise Science Department Winning project: Modulating mitchondrial function to alter insulin signaling in insulin resistant C2C12 cells. Project focus: Along with Kristina Trujillo, Mermier will continue their work on understanding the link between mitochondrial function and insulin signaling. This research […] Read More
Eva Chi Honor: 2017 Women In STEM research award winner Title: assistant professor in the Biomedical Engineering Department Winning project: Development of Novel Theranostics for the Simultaneous Detection and Treatment of Amyloid Diseases. Project focus: Chi’s work looks at developing theranostic agents for the simultaneous detection and treatment of amyloid diseases, which are the cause of Alzheimer’s […] Read More
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