2024 summer camp guide
Have work to do or just looking to give your kids a cool summer experience? Albuquerque has camps for everything from sewing to horseback riding to opera and more! Check out our list of summer camps around the city. Registration for many camps starts early in the year and continues until camps are full.
Academic Freedom on Campus: Professional and Personal Reflections
In this webinar, distinguished UNM Constitutional law scholars and the chair of the Committee on Academic Freedom and Tenure explored the multifaceted concept of academic freedom through historical, legal, and practical lenses. Panelists shared diverse strategies for navigating challenges in academia. Don’t miss this opportunity to gain unique insights into this current topic! […] Read More
Faculty Fanfare: Meeko Oishi
UNM Electrical and Computer Engineering Professor Meeko Oishi gave a keynote speech at the 2024 NSF Cyber-Physical Systems Principal Investigators’ Meeting at Vanderbilt University in March. The speech, which focused on the importance of designing for human heterogeneity in cyber-physical systems, was at a meeting of principal investigators of NSF awards that are part of […] Read More
Faculty Fanfare: Amanda Bienz
UNM Assistant Professor of Computer Science Amanda Bienz has received an NSF CAREER Award to explore ways to enhance the performance of parallel applications on emerging supercomputers. With the award, Bienz hopes to find the best ways to solve problems using supercomputers whose software capabilities need to evolve as quickly as the powerful hardware […] Read More
Faculty Fanfare: Melvatha Chee
UNM Assistant Professor Melvatha Chee has received the Mary R. Haas Award from the Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas for her work on the Diné language. The award is presented to “a junior scholar for an unpublished manuscript that makes a significant, substantive contribution about Indigenous languages of […] Read More
Faculty Fanfare: Martina Laidemitt
UNM biology adjunct associate professor Martina Laidemitt is the lead author on a journal article that reveals the presence of compatible snail hosts to the pathogenic parasitic flatworm, Heterobilharzia americana in New Mexico – outside its normal habitat and on a new host. The parasite, H. americana, regularly infects dogs, horses, and raccoons, and […] Read More
Academic freedom on campus: resources and information
As faculty and staff on college campuses across the country grapple with issues of academic freedom and free speech, it can be hard to know how to handle discussions with students and colleagues, and when it’s appropriate to speak out on current issues. What do these concepts mean on a practical level? How can UNM […] Read More
Equitable decisions in academia: minimizing bias and applying best practices
In all parts of academia, there are opportunities to make equitable decisions based on best practices and with minimal bias. This includes faculty searches, proposal selection committees, chairing effective meetings and more. Yet many of us have questions on how to make the best decisions, from ways to write job ads or calls […] Read More
Call open for 2024 Women in STEM Awards
Proposals are due May 14, 2024. Applications are now being accepted for the Advance at UNM 2024 Women In STEM awards. The awards, now in their ninth year at UNM, range from $3,000 to $15,000, and three types of grants will be given. The categories include travel awards to foster collaborations, seed awards […] Read More
UNM Faculty Lightning Lounge 02/07/2024
Hear from four University of New Mexico branch campus faculty members about their research in 7-minute presentations during this Lightning Lounge event. The February 2024 speakers at the Lightning Lounge were: Sarah Llanque-White, an associate professor of nursing at UNM Gallup, whose talk is Integrating Navajo (Dine) Culture and Ways of Life into Nursing […] Read More
Dr. Andrea McQuate, Biology
Name: Dr. Andrea McQuate Title: Assistant Professor Department: Biology Describe your research in about 200 words. My research focuses on the role of mitochondria in the preservation of hearing and balance. We seek to understand how these “powerhouses of the cell” form morphologies and phenotypes that are specific to cells in the […] Read More
Dr. Lomeli C. Shull, Biology
Name: Dr. Lomeli C. Shull Title: Assistant Professor Department: Biology Describe your research in about 200 words. I am a developmental biologist interested in understanding how our complicated facial structures—all the cartilage, bone, and neurons—form. Neural crest cells are a stem-cell like population of cells that give rise to a variety of […] Read More
Dr. Chi Wang, Mechanical Engineering
Name:Dr. Chi Wang Title:Assistant Professor Department:Mechanical Engineering Describe your research in about 200 words.My research focuses on advancing the fundamental understanding of heat transfer across interfaces in microscale during phase change process with advanced experimental and diagnostic technologies to facilitate the development of more efficient energy, heat transfer and thermal management systems. My current research interests include phase […] Read More
Dr. Allyson McGaughey, Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering
Name: Dr. Allyson McGaughey Title: Assistant Professor Department: Gerald May Department of Civil, Construction & Environmental Engineering Describe your research in about 200 words. To mitigate and adapt to climate change, freshwater scarcity, and increasing environmental degradation, we must achieve a circular water economy and, at the same time, confront new (and […] Read More
Dr. Georgios Koutsakis, Mechanical Engineering
Name: Dr. Georgios Koutsakis Title: Assistant Professor Department: Mechanical Engineering Describe your research in about 200 words. I obtained my PhD from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 2022, after completing my diploma at the University of Western Macedonia, Kozani, Greece in 2016. I developed techniques to maximize in-cylinder heat insulation while ensuring […] Read More
Dr. Chanee Choi, Film and Digital Arts
Name: Dr. Chanee Choi Title: Assistant Professor Department: Film and Digital Arts Describe your research in about 200 words. I am a transdisciplinary artist and educator. I’ve developed a ritualistic craft-based art practice that transcends the conservative and isolationist roots of traditional East Asian craftwork by focusing on a celebration of feminist […] Read More
Dr. Marisa Repasch, Earth and Planetary Sciences
Name: Dr. Marisa Repasch Title: Assistant Professor Department: Earth and Planetary Sciences Describe your research in about 200 words. My research focuses on understanding the role of Earth surface processes, such as erosion, sediment transport, and weathering, in the global carbon cycle. Climate change and human-driven land disturbance can accelerate erosion, destabilizing […] Read More
UNM Faculty Fanfare campaign highlights successes across campus
UNM’s faculty are amazing, and the Advance at UNM Faculty Fanfare campaign is here to highlight the research, publishing and teaching being done across campus. Enjoy our digital shoutouts to faculty below, and nominate someone for their own fanfare.
Advance at UNM opens latest faculty survey on wellbeing, climate, and caregiving
Building on its previous surveys of UNM faculty, Advance at UNM is conducting a comprehensive climate survey with the goal of understanding and improving programs to recruit, retain, and support all faculty. The survey of full time main campus faculty is open now and invitations have been emailed to faculty members. Advance at UNM encourages faculty […] Read More
Faculty Fanfare: Jennifer Jordan
UNM University Libraries Open Educational Research (OER) Librarian Jennifer Jordan is the principal investigator for a $2.125 million federal Open Textbook Grant recently awarded to the university by the U.S. Department of Education. The money will go towards the creation of the New Mexico Open Educational Resources (NMOER) Consortium to help faculty in the state adopt, […] Read More
Faculty Fanfare: Alok K. Bohara and Jingjing Wang
Two UNM economics professors are co-authors on a recently published journal article urging water economics to be taught as part of the larger economics curriculum. Alok K. Bohara, a professor and the founding director of the Nepal Study Center at UNM, and Jingjing Wang, an associate professor and the associate director of the Water Resources Program […] Read More
Faculty Fanfare: Eirini Eleni Tsiropoulou
UNM Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering Eirini Eleni Tsiropoulou has been awarded a $300,000 National Science Foundation grant for work that could reshape public disaster response systems. Tsiropoulou’s work explores the challenges with public safety systems that occur during and after disasters, where victims, first responders, and emergency control centers must coordinate efforts for […] Read More
Faculty Fanfare: Xi Gong
UNM Assistant Professor of Geography and Environmental Studies Xi Gong is a co-convener of the UNM Grand Challenges Level 2 team Child Health Team. The group’s work aims to develop and operationalize the systematic, data-driven approach needed to empower child maltreatment prevention in New Mexico. “Child maltreatment is a multi-faceted issue, with health, public health, economic, […] Read More
Faculty Fanfare: Chip Shearer
UNM Institute of Meteoritics Senior Research Scientist Chip Shearer is a co-lead of the UNM Grand Challenges Level 2 Sustainable Space Research team, which aims to develop a hub of space science exploration at the university. The center of excellence will bring together existing and upcoming work at UNM, including on space exploration research and technology, […] Read More