Community-based Research Initiative 2024-2025 Call for Proposals

The UNM Center for Regional Studies (CRS) in partnership with the College of Arts & Sciences

(A &S) announces its Community-based Research Initiative. This initiative is to financially support

two community-based research project during FY25. The CRS and A & S partnership will provide

up to $30,000 for the fiscal year. CRS invites project proposals from UNM faculty.

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Proposals are due May 3

2024 Women in STEM Award Call for Nominations

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 to stimulate research projects that will lead to additional external funding, and workshop awards designed to generate innovative research ideas and collaborations.

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Proposals are due May 14

Safety Spotlight

The OVPR and UNM Environmental Health & Safety (EHS) have partnered to help researchers obtain specialized personal protective equipment (PPE) required for specific types of activities. Within the last year, EHS has purchased special-request PPE such as:

·      High-quality eye protection (e.g., custom laser eyewear)

·      Cut-proof gloves

·      Flame-resistant lab coats

If you or your lab/studio needs specialized PPE for specific types of research activities, EHS has set up a “Request for Supplies” option on its website under the Research Safety tab. Lobos, you can also send a request to chemsafety-L@list.unm.edu to discuss your needs. Safe research is excellent research.

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FROM THE UNM NEWSROOM

• How to be happy: Tips from a Positive Psychology professor

• UNM professor awarded grant for Navajo Nation Museum Exhibition Project

• Topic and speaker for Joel M. Jones lecture announced

FROM THE COLLEGE OF ARTS & SCIENCES

• Travel is revived for Arabic language students in recent trip to Oman

LOCAL/NATIONAL NEWS

• From KRQE: This fungus may be the key to growing food on other planets during drought

Multilingual Approaches to Language Learning: Perspectives from Arabic as a Multidialectal Language

Vol. 11 No. 1 (2024)

Co-edited by:

Emma Trentman, Ph.D.

Associate Professor

Department of Languages, Cultures, & Literatures

Publisher: Critical Multilingualism Studies: an interdisciplinary journal

UNM was well represented in the 2024 Southwest Local Algebra Meeting (SLAM). The participating students were: first year students Alexander Fritschi and Gari Lincoln Chua, second year student Daniel Havens, and fifth year student Sarah Poiani. Former graduate student Austin Bell, who received his MS in Spring 2023, also joined the group. 

Sarah, who will graduate this year, presented a poster on "Constructing pair operations", part of her Ph.D. thesis under the direction of Associate Professor Janet Vassilev. 

The Southwest Local Algebra Meeting (SLAM) is an annual event that has brought together algebraists around the Southwest since 2010.

2023 Impact Report