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Where in the world?
UNM STEM faculty conduct research all over the world. Take a look at our Where in the World archives for interesting snapshots from across the globe.
Melissa Emery Thompson, an assistant professor in the Department of Anthropology, is one of the directors of the Kibale Chimpanzee Project, a long-term study of wild chimpanzees in Uganda. Funded by the National Science Foundation, the National Institute on Aging, and other agencies, Dr. Emery Thompson and her students examine interactions between ecology, health, and social behavior in a community of about 60 chimpanzees.
Cristina Takacs-Vesbach samples the Airdevronsix Icefalls at the head of the Wright Valley in Antarctica January 2014. Dr. Takacs-Vesbach has been studying the diversity and function of microorganisms in the McMurdo Dry Valleys Antarctica and other extreme environments for 22 years.
Dr. Ronda Brulotte, the associate director for academic programs at the Latin American and Iberian Institute and a UNM associate professor of anthropology, cuts an agave plant in Oaxaca, Mexico. Her research is about the development of the mezcal industry in Mexico.
UNM assistant professor of political science Sara Julieta Niedzwiecki, poses outside a building in Santa Maria do Herval in the state of Rio Grande do Sul Brazil where she did research in 2012. Her work focuses on the process through which social policies are formed and implemented. Her recent book manuscript analyzes the implementation of health policies and cash transfers in Argentina and Brazil.
Associate professor of Anthropology Sherry Nelson collects vegetation from the rainforest canopy in Kibale Forest, Uganda where chimpanzees live. Her research uses stable isotope analyses to compare modern and fossil animals and habitats in order to reconstruct the paleoecologies of fossil apes and human ancestors.
Professor of Political Science and ADVANCE deputy director Mala Htun in front of the Women’s Institute, Mexico City.
Mala was in Mexico City conducting interviews for a project on economic empowerment and violence against women.
UNM Political Science Professor Wendy L. Hansen and former graduate student, Prakash Adhikari visited villages in remote areas of Nepal in 2008 after the signing of the Peace Agreement ending a 10-year civil war. In ongoing research, Hansen and Adhikari are investigating the impact of local politics on the distribution of reparations to victims of human rights violation.
