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May 8, 2023

Save the Date


UNM's Grand Challenges and the Interdisciplinary Science Cooperative have come together to bring Grand Challenges Day and the Team Research Symposium together in one special event on Thursday, September 14th. Schedule of events coming soon.



Because we are all Better Together.



Go to


ISCO-OP.UNM.EDU/TEAMS


for more info

 



New

Awards



Congratulations to the following on new awards received during the month of April

 

Lead PI: Joseph A. Cook

Co-PI: Jonathan Dunnum

Biology, Museum of Southwestern Biology

Collaborative Research: Ranges: Building Capacity to Extend Mammal Specimens from Western North America

Funder: National Science Foundation

Award: $96,793


Lead PI: Esteban H. Muldavin

Biology

Depression Wetlands and Salt Flats of New Mexico

Funder: New Mexico Environment Department

Award: $200,000


Lead PI: Brian A. Gold

Chemistry & Chemical Biology

Understanding and Developing Dual-Wavelength Olefin Metathesis Polymerizations for the Rapid, Continuous Additive Manufacturing of High Performance Thermosets

Funder: National Technology & Engineering Solutions of Sandia LLC

Award: $35,608


Lead PI: Natasha B. Howard

Geography & Environmental Science

#Remember the South Broadway

Funder: US Library of Congress

Award: $ 49,997


Lead PI: Naomi Shin

Co-PIs: Melvatha Chee and Jill Morford

Linguistics

Combating linguistic bias and promoting mulitilingualism and multiculturalism in New Mexico

Funder: McCune Charitable Foundation

Award: $10,000

Lead PI: Russell D. Greaves

Co-PI: Alexander Kurota

Office of Contract Archeology

Statement of Work: Archaeological Documentation of Historic Structures at Seven Springs Fish Hatchery, Sandoval County, New Mexico

Funder: New Mexico Game and Fish

Award: $10,651


Lead PI: Diana Dragomir

Physics & Astronomy

Tess Reaches for Cooler Planets

Funder: National Aeronautics & Space Administration

Award: $750,000


Lead PI: Dinesh Loomba

Physics & Astronomy

Development of a Negative Ion Gas TPC to Observe the Migdal Effect

Funder: Fermi Laboratory

Award: $40,924


Lead PI: Jeremy P. Hogeveen

Psychology

Neurodevelopment of Exploration and Alcohol Problems in Adolescence

Funder: National Institutes of Health

Award: $554,756

 
 



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FROM THE COLLEGE OF ARTS & SCIENCES





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ANNOUNCEMENTS

 

The Faculty-Mentored Research Award


Nominations due May 31

Research & Discovery Week - Nov. 6 - 12, 2023


Pre-Registration Best Consideration Dates:

Featured Event - June 1

Research Showcase - June 1

Scheduled Event - September 1

 



NEW PUBLICATIONS

 

As above, not so below: Long-term dynamics of net primary production across a dryland transition zone

Co-Authors: Renee F. Brown and Scott L. Collins, PhD

Department: Biology

Publication: Global Change Biology



Schistosoma transmission: scaling-up competence from hosts to ecosystems

Co-Author: Eric S. Loker, PhD

Department: Biology, CETI, MSB

Publication: Trends in Parasitology



The Mycobiome of Bats in the American Southwest Is Structured by Geography, Bat Species, and Behavior

Co-Authors: Ara Winter and Diana Northup, PhD

Department: Biology

Publication: Microbial Ecology



The Grand Canyon National Park (USA) water corridor: water supply, water quality, and recharge along the Bright Angel Fault

Co-Authors: Brionna H. Curry, Laura J. Crossey, PhD, and Karl E. Karlstrom, PhD

Department: Earth & Planetary Sciences

Publication: Hydrogeology Journal



Tolerance to aberration and misalignment in a two-point-resolving image inversion interferometer

Co-Authors: Keith Lidke, PhD; David Schodt

Department: Physics & Astronomy

Publication: Optics Express

Validation of TOI-1221 b: A Warm Sub-Neptune Exhibiting Transit Timing Variations around a Sun-like Star

Co-Author: Diana Dragomir, PhD

Department: Physics & Astronomy

Publication: The Astronomical Journal



Scrollability: A New Digital News Affordance

Co-Author: Jessica T. Feezell, PhD

Department: Political Science

Publication: Political Communication



Third-Wave treatments for impulsivity in addictive disorders: a narrative review of the active ingredients and overall efficacy

Co-Authors: David Moniz-Lewis; Katie Witkiewitz, PhD

Department: Psychology

Publication: Current Addiction Reports (2023)




A Complexity Approach to Promoting Within-and Cross-Language Generalization in Bilingual Children with Phonological Delays

Co-Authors: Carlos D. Irizarry-Perez, PhD, and Andrea Martinez-Fisher

Department: Speech & Hearing Sciences

Publication: Language, Speech, and Hearing Sciences in Schools

 
 

FACULTY

HIGHLIGHT

Belinda Deneen Wallace

Assistant Professor

English Language & Literature


Belinda Deneen Wallace won the 2022 Prize for Best Article from the Canadian Committee on the History of Sexuality for her article "Our Lives: Scribal Activism, Intimacy, and Black Lesbian Visibility in 1980s Canada" featured in the Journal of Canadian Studies. Wallace is a Assistant Professor of British & Irish Literary Studies.

 
 

PUBLISHER

SPOTLIGHT

The American West and Its Interpreters: Essays of Literary History and Historiography

Authored by

Richard Etulain, PhD

Professor Emeritus

History

 
 



RESOURCES & FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES

 
 

EXTERNAL OPPORTUNITIES


DOE, Minority Serving Institutions Partnership Program (MSIPP) - expression of interest e-mail due May 12th


Simons Foundation Pivot Fellowship - Applications due May 15th


FY25 Research and Public Service Project (RPSP)

- applications due May 22nd

More information on this opportunity is located here.


Simons Postdoctoral Fellowships in Marine Microbial Ecology - Applications due May 23rd


The Simons Foundation Mathematics and Physical Sciences (MPS) Radiation Management program (SRM) - LOI due May 31st


The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI) - Applications due June 1st


One Mind Rising Star Awards program - Applications due June 1st


Kenneth B. and Mamie P Clark Fund - Applications due June 15th


William T. Grant Scholars Program - Applications due July 5th


Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program 2024-25 - Applications due September 15th


FOR STUDENTS


The American Psychological Foundation Violet and Cyril Franks Scholarship - Applications due May 15th


Undergraduate Research, Arts & Design Network Opportunities


Internships and fellowships with DoD through ORISE




UNM RESEARCH DEVELOPMENT FUNDS


WeR1 Faculty Scholarship Time (FaST) Program - Applications due May 26th


UNM Environmental Health & Toxicology Pilot Awards - Applications due May 19th




LIMITED COMPETITIONS


NIH Director's Early Independence Awards - Pre-proposals May 15th


 

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UPCOMING EVENTS

 

Spring 2023 Workshops From Advance at UNM


Advance + Faculty Research Development Office Remote Quiet Writing Time

Wednesday, May 10th

2 - 4 pm


Advance + Faculty Research Development Office In-Person Quiet Writing Time

Wednesday, May 17th

2 - 4 PM


Advance + Faculty Research Development Office Remote Quiet Writing Time

Wednesday, May 24th

2 - 4 PM

Sevilleta National Wildlife Refuge's 50th Anniversary Celebration


Saturday, May 20th

10 AM - 2 PM

Spring 2023 NSF Virtual Grants Conference

June 5th - 8th


Registration starts Wednesday, May 10th

View Upcoming Rainforest Innovations Events Here


To submit your events for listing on the College's website,

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