
2021 awards
12 UNM faculty selected for the 2021 UNM Women in STEM awards
Seven winning projects will look at better ways to manage water, how healthy brains age, and methods for transferring knowledge between robots
Twelve faculty members at the University of New Mexico have been selected for the 2021 Women in STEM awards. Winning projects this year will look at new ways to reduce the environmental impacts of human waste; social identities of people diagnosed with Celiac Disease; paths to better helping communities affected by climate change and the effects of acute sugar intake including possible links to asthma.
2020 Awardee Profiles
Dr. Rebecca Bixby
Dr. Tara Drake
Dr. Heather Edgar
Dr. Tamar Ginossar
Dr. Maryam Hojati
Dr. Mousumi Roy
Dr. Lani Tsinnajinnie
Dr. Jin Zhang
2020 awards
Eight UNM faculty selected for the 2020 UNM Women in STEM awards
Winning projects will develop sustainable concrete for 3-D printing, analyze social media discourse about the novel coronavirus and study groundwater resources on the Navajo Nation
Eight UNM faculty members at the University of New Mexico have been selected for the 2020 Women in STEM awards. Their work includes research on the impact of global warming on alpine stream biology, the creation of a better way to identify missing and murdered Native Americans and analysis of high pressure-temperature studies on Martian rocks.
The recipients this year are Dr. Rebecca Bixby, a research assistant professor in biology; Dr. Tara Drake, an assistant professor in physics and astronomy; Dr. Heather Edgar, an associate professor in anthropology; Dr. Tamar Ginossar, an associate professor in communication and journalism; Dr. Maryam Hojati, an assistant professor in civil, construction and environmental engineering; Dr. Mousumi Roy, an associate professor in physics and astronomy, Dr. Lani Tsinnajinnie, an assistant professor in community and regional planning, and Dr. Jin Zhang, an assistant professor in earth and planetary sciences.
The Women in STEM awards are hosted by Advance at UNM in collaboration with the UNM Office of Academic Affairs. Advance is a five-year National Science Foundation program to recruit, retain and promote women and minority STEM faculty. The WIS awards, now in their fifth year, have totaled more than $266,000 to date.
Julia Fulghum, director of Advance at UNM, said the selected proposals are an exciting representation of the work of women in STEM around campus.
2019 Awardee Profiles
2018 Awardee Profiles
Dr. Heather Canavan
Drs. Judy Cannon and Melanie Moses
Dr. Cindy Gevarter
Dr. Amy Neel
Dr. Svetlana Poroseva
Dr. Jessica Richardson
Dr. Irene Salinas
Dr. Eirini Eleni Tsiropoulou
Dr. Kira Villa
2017 Awardee Profiles
Dr. Eva Chi
Dr. Michelle Facette
Dr. Kendra Koivu
Drs. Christine Mermier & Kristina Trujillo
Drs. Naomi Shin, Barbara Shaffer and Jill Morford
Dr. Jami Nelson Nuñez
Dr. Ylva Philström
2016 - 2019 award winner announcements

12 UNM faculty receive 2021 Women in STEM Awards
Seven winning projects will look at better ways to manage water, how healthy brains age, and methods for transferring knowledge between robots Twelve faculty members at the University of New Mexico have been selected for the 2021 Women in STEM awards. Winning projects this year will look at new ways to reduce the environmental impacts of […] Read More

Eight UNM faculty selected for the 2020 UNM Women in STEM awards
Winning projects will develop sustainable concrete for 3-D printing, analyze social media discourse about the novel coronavirus and study groundwater resources on the Navajo Nation. Eight UNM faculty members at the University of New Mexico have been selected for the 2020 Women in STEM awards. Their work includes research on the impact of global warming […] Read More

Four UNM scientists selected for the 2019 Women In STEM awards
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10 researchers named 2018 Women in STEM awardees
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10 UNM scientists selected for 2017 Women in STEM awards
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Seven UNM professors win Women in STEM awards for research
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2016 Awardee Profiles
Dr. Jessica Feezel
Dr. Siobhan Mattison
Dr. Christina Salas
Dr. Jingjing Wang
Dr. Katie Witkiewitz