STEM shoutout

Political science prof named one of UNM’s New Teachers of the Year Dr. Jami Gayle Nelson-Nuñez has been named one of UNM’s 2017-2018 New Teachers of the Year. Nelson-Nuñez, who works in the Department of Political Science, studies the politics of providing services, like drinking water and improved sanitation, in developing contexts. Another area of […] Read More

  Economics prof awarded 2018 Women in STEM award UNM Assistant Professor of Economics Dr. Kira Villa was one of 10 women to receive a 2018 Women in STEM award. Her proposal is called “The Intergenerational Health Impact of Early Life Climate Variability and its Implication for Child Recovery from Natural Disasters: Evidence from Indonesia.” Villa’s […] Read More

UNM geologist working on two NSF studies about Earth’s internal structures  Dr. Jin Zhang, assistant professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences, is currently undertaking two NSF-backed projects in which she studies Earth’s internal structure, composition, and processes in hopes of providing a more dynamic view of the Earth’s interior. To carry out her research, Zhang […] Read More

Database expert hired by UNM computer science Dr. Soraya Abad-Mota recently was hired full time hire in UNM’s Department of Computer Science. She will lead computer programming courses and systems courses, along with the an elective course on databases in Spring 2018 and the CS capstone, a software development program required for students to graduate. […] Read More

Dr. Cindy Gevarter receives 2018 Women in STEM award Dr. Cindy Gevarter, an assistant professor in the UNM Speech and Hearing Sciences Department is a recipient of a 2018 Women in STEM award at UNM.   Gevarter recently has published several articles, including studies concerning children with autism and children with ASD. Two of the […] Read More

Assistant research professor wins award for preservation project UNM Assistant Research Professor Angelyn Bass has been awarded the 2018 Arizona Governor’s Heritage Preservation Honor Award for her research on the Montezuma Castle and Casa Grande Ruins Preservation Project. This award was given to Bass, who works in UNM’s Anthropology Department, and colleagues Douglas Porter (University of […] Read More

UNM professor creating body scan database  Dr. Heather Edgar, an associate professor in the departments of Anthropology and Pathology, has been awarded a $702,000 grant from the National Institute of Justice to convert a dataset of whole body decedent CT scans into a searchable database that will be available and free to researchers online. “A […] Read More

UNM prof is digitizing paleontologic treasures Dr. Corinne Myers, an assistant professor in UNM’s Earth and Planetary Sciences Department, has been awarded a grant through NSF’s Advancing Digitization of Biodiversity Collections Program (ADBC). The grant allows her to hire students to aid her in digitizing paleontologic collections at UNM. Myers, a paleobiologist, is studying how long […] Read More

You may have heard recently about the growing popularity of cryptocurrencies including Bitcoin. Dr. Marie Vasek, an assistant professor in the department of Computer Science at UNM is a specialist in computer security who studies cybercrime. Besides leading StopBadware, an anti-malware organization she began working for in 2011, her work and findings have recently been […] Read More

UNM professor of community and regional planning receives 2018 Best Policy Paper Award UNM Associate Professor of Community and Regional Planning Dr. Caroline Scruggs has been awarded the 2018 Best Policy Paper Award from the Environmental & Water Resources Institute (EWRI) for her and co-author Bruce Thomson’s paper entitled “Opportunities and Challenges for Direct Potable […] Read More

Dr. Jamie Gomez leads research on innovative teaching techniques for engineering at UNM Dr. Jamie Gomez, a senior lecturer in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, is a core faculty member on two grants from the National Science Foundation. She is leading efforts in supporting diverse students in the classroom and implementing research-based teaching […] Read More

Dr. Amy Neel named a 2018 UNM Women in STEM award winner Dr. Amy Neel, an associate professor in the Department of Speech and Hearing Sciences, has been named 2018 Women in STEM award winners for her research on brain injury recovery along with Dr. Jessica Richardson, an assistant professor and speech-language pathologist in the Department […] Read More

Dr. Ivana Gonzales receives a grant from Los Alamos National Laboratory Dr. Ivana Gonzales, a research associate professor in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, received two grants worth $160,000 from Los Alamos National Laboratory for her research on fuel cells. Researchers at the Los Alamos National Laboratory hope that the fuel cells will […] Read More

Dr. Judy Cannon awarded as a 2018 Women in STEM winner Dr. Judy Cannon, an Associate Professor in the Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology with a secondary appointment in the Department of Pathology, and Dr. Melanie Moses, an Associate Professor in UNM Computer Science with a secondary appointment in the UNM Department of Biology, […] Read More

UNM professor joins researchers in discovering what caused the first recorded mass extinction Dr. Maya Elrick, of the UNM Earth and Planetary Sciences Department, has helped lead a team of researchers to discover that widespread ocean anoxia may have triggered the first recorded mass extinction, the Late Ordovician Mass Extinction, some 440 million years ago. […] Read More

Dr. Jessica Richardson named a 2018 Women in STEM winner Dr. Jessica Richardson, an assistant professor and speech-language pathologist in the Department of Speech and Hearing Sciences and the Center for Brain Recovery and Repair at the UNM Health Sciences Center, and Dr. Amy Neel, an associate professor in the Department of Speech and Hearing […] Read More

Dr. Melanie Moses named a 2018 Women in STEM award winner Dr. Melanie Moses, a professor in UNM Computer Science with a secondary appointment in the UNM Department of Biology, has been named 2018 Women in STEM award winner for her research on swarms along with Dr. Judy Cannon, an Associate Professor in the Department of Molecular […] Read More

Dr. Elizabeth Crosson looks forward to bringing her research to UNM in fall 2018 Dr. Elizabeth Crosson, an assistant professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of New Mexico, is currently conducting research on the uses and benefits of quantum computers. These quantum computers would assist in helping scientists find faster […] Read More

Dr. Marina Kogan heads research at UNM on crisis-related behavior on social media Dr. Marina Kogan, an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science, is leading research on social media behavior in cases of mass disruption like natural disasters. “I’m a computer scientist, but I think about people. I use computational algorithms to analyze […] Read More

UNM Professor Utilizes GIS technology to reduce cancer disparities in New Mexico UNM Assistant Professor Yan Lin of the Geography and Environmental Studies department is contributing to the advancement of public health through her research involving Geographic Information System mapping technology (GIS).   Lin currently is leading a research project on the development of a […] Read More

Dr. Tsiropoulou awarded 2018 Women in STEM award UNM Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer engineering Dr. Eirini-Eleni Tsiropoulou was one of 10 women to receive the 2018 Women in STEM award for her proposal entitled “Redefining resource AllocaTION in Advanced wireLess systEms (RATIONALE)”.   Tsiropoulou’s proposal demonstrates how it is most beneficial for the […] Read More

Anthropology professor receives Fulbright Award to continue research in Chile’s Atacama Desert UNM Professor Dr. Frances Hayashida is a recipient of the prestigious Fulbright Scholar Award for the fall of 2018. This award will allow Hayashida to teach at the Universidad de Chile and continue her anthropology field work in the Atacama Desert.   Hayashida, […] Read More

New Astronomy and Physics professor will continue cosmic microwave background research at UNM Dr. Darcy Barron will be joining UNM’s Physics and Astronomy Department as a new assistant professor starting in the fall of 2018.   Barron hails from UC Berkeley, where she has been an NSF Astronomy and Astrophysics postdoctoral fellow since 2015.   […] Read More