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December 11, 2023

Student Team Research Concept Competition Accepting Proposals

Know an undergraduate student interested in interdisciplinary research? Please encourage them to submit a proposal for the Student Team Research Concept Competition. The competition will take place at UROC on April 12 and the winning team will receive $2,000 to be split between team members. Teams of undergraduate students will pitch an interdisciplinary problem they are interested in. Each team may include as many UNM undergraduate students as desired, as long as at least two academic majors are represented.

Proposals must be submitted by March 1

More information, including the link to apply, is here

Congratulations to the following on awards received during the month of November

Lead PI: Ivan H. Deutsch, PhD

Physics & Astronomy, CQuIC

Foundations for quantum simulation of warm dense matter

Funder: National Technology & Engineering Solutions of Sandia LLC 

Award: $85,000

Lead PI: Ivan H. Deutsch, PhD

Physics & Astronomy, CQuIC

Enabling physics-informed design choices for scaling trapped-ion quantum processors

Funder: National Technology & Engineering Solutions of Sandia LLC

Award: $65,000

Lead PI: Alexander Kurota

Office of Contract Archaeology

50 Acre Survey of San Antonio Creek in Valles Caldera (185-1356)

Funder: Rio Grande Return

Award: $10,911

Lead PI: Tiffany S. Lee, PhD

Native American Studies

2024 American Indian Studies Association

Funder: Henry Luce Foundation

Award: $125,000

Lead PI: Esteban H. Muldavin, PhD

Co-PI's: Christopher Lippitt, PhD and Su Zhang, PhD

Biology, NM Natural Heritage Program

New Mexico Terrestrial Habitat Map

Funder: New Mexico Game and Fish Department

Award: $900,000

Lead PI: Kari L. Schleher, PhD

Maxwell Museum

Maxwell Museum of Anthropology, Improving Preservation with Enhanced Storage

Funder: National Endowment for the Humanities

Award: $349,999

Lead PI: Jacob B. Schroder, PhD

Mathematics & Statistics

Multigrid Reduction in Time for Chaotic and Hyperbolic Problems

Funder: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Award: $69,769

Lead PI: Sandeep Talasila

Co-PI: Shirley Baros

Earth Data Analysis Center

DFA NM911

Funder: State of New Mexico

Award: $1,367,899

Lead PI: Kristine Denman

Institute for Social Research

SJS2023: Alternative Sentencing

Funder: Bureau of Justice Statistics 

Award: $282,791

Lead PI: Mubarak Hussain Syed, PhD

Biology

Developmental Mechanisms Regulating Fate And Function Of Sleep-Wake Circuit

Funder: Brain & Behavior Research Foundation

Award: $70,000

Lead PI: Gavin Jones, PhD

Biology

Developing and Implementing a Tool for Prioritizing the Management of an Invasive and Hyperabundant Apex Predator - the Barred Owl

Funder: University of Wisconsin - Madison

Award: $99,502

Lead PI: Cristina Takacs, PhD

Co-PI: Tyler Mackey, PhD

Biology

LTER: MCM6 - The Roles of Legacy and Ecological Connectivity in a Polar Desert Ecosystem

Funder: University of Colorado

Award: $1,910,304

Lead PI: Russel Greaves, PhD

Office of Contract Archaeology

Lone Eagle Copper Mine 35 Acre Cultural Resource Survey_185-1359

Funder: New Mexico Energy Minerals and Natural Resources Department

Award: $33,235

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