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December 18, 2023

Enjoy the Winter Break and we'll be back on January 16

with more Research Wins

ANNOUNCEMENTS

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

IN THE NEWS

FROM THE UNM NEWSROOM

2023 Inspiring Graduate | Bryan Rojas

2023 Inspiring Graduate | Syaire Riley

Peer pressure vs. self-motivation: CASAA researches substance use choices

NEW PUBLICATIONS

Interdisciplinary evidence for early domestic horse exploitation in southern Patagonia

Co-Author: Emily Lena Jones, PhD

Department: Anthropology

Publisher: Science Advances Vol 9, Issue 49

Catchment concentration–discharge relationships across temporal scales: A review

Co-Author: Alex J. Webster, PhD

Department: Biology

Publisher: Early View

Reflections from Pandemic Teaching and Beyond: Mitigating the Tension between Student and Faculty Intersectionalities

Lead Author: Sushilla Knottenbelt, PhD

Department: Chemistry & Chemical Biology

Publisher: Chemistry in General Education

Metallic Cation-Mediated Entrapment of Nucleic Acids on Mesoporous Silica Surface: Application in Castration-Resistant Prostate Cancer

Co-Author: Adrian J. Brearley, PhD

Department: Earth & Planetary Sciences

Publisher: Chemistry of Materials

Liminal waters, contested imaginaries: Andean comunas and Ecuador’s new water law

Co-Author: K. Maria D. Lane, PhD

Department: Geography & Environmental Studies

Publisher: Water International Vol 48, Issue 7

Magmatic Evolution II: A New View of Post-Differentiation Magmatism

Lead Author: Charles K. Shearer, PhD

Department: Institute of Meteoritics

Publisher: Reviews in Mineralogy & Geochemistry

How to extend closure and interior operations to more modules

Co-Author: Janet Vassilev, PhD

Department: Mathematics & Statistics

Publisher: Nagoya Mathematical Journal

On a fully-implicit VMS-stabilized FE formulation for low Mach number compressible resistive MHD with application to MCF

Co-Author: J.N. Shadid, PhD

Department: Mathematics & Statistics

Publisher: Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering

Comparison of automated and manual quantification methods for neuromelanin-sensitive MRI in Parkinson's disease

Co-Author: Erik Erhardt, PhD

Department: Mathematics & Statistics

Publisher: Human Brain Mapping

Evidence that proactive distractor suppression does not require attentional resources

Co-Author: Eric Ruthruff, PhD

Department: Psychology

Publisher: Psychonomic Bulletin & Review

PUBLISHER SPOTLIGHT

"Child and child-directed speech in North American Languages"

Chapter Co-Authored by

Melvatha R. Chee, PhD

Assistant Professor

Department of Linguistics

The Languages and Linguistics of Indigenous North America: A Comprehensive Guide, Vol. 2

Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton

To submit a book for the Publisher Spotlight, e-mail ResearchWins@unm.edu

FACULTY SPOTLIGHT

Alex Buium, PhD

Distinguished Professor

Department of Mathematics & Statistics

An article on "Differentiating by Prime Numbers" by Jack Jeffries that appeared in the December 2023 Notices of the American Mathematical Society (AMS), prominently features the lifelong work of Alex Buium, UNM Distinguished Professor of Mathematics.

RESOURCES

& FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES

FOR STUDENTS

The University of New Mexico Hibben Graduate Fellowships in Anthropology

Undergraduate Research, Arts & Design Network Opportunities

Internships and fellowships with DoD through ORISE

Public Health Undergraduate Scholars Program - Applications due January 31

EXTERNAL OPPORTUNITIES

The New Mexico Alliance for Minority Participation (NM AMP) - Various deadlines

Summer Research Team Program for Minority Serving Institutions - Now accepting applications

UNM RESEARCH DEVELOPMENT FUNDS

OVPR Sandia Academic Alliance Fund - Submissions due February 9

LIMITED COMPETITIONS

REVIEWERS NEEDED

The Faculty Research Development Office (FRDO) is always recruiting volunteers to join their pool of prospective reviewers for limited competitions. If you are interested, the sign-up form can be accessed here.

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UPCOMING

EVENTS

Lobo Living Room: Moon Exploration & Developing A Space Economy

January 24, 2024

5:15 - 8 PM

PAIS Building Room 1100

Scholarship & Research Speaker Series: Veteran & Military Health Care Outcomes Update

January 30, 2024

5 - 7 PM

View Upcoming Rainforest Innovations Events Here

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To celebrate the impact our research community at the College of Arts & Sciences is making and to inspire new collaborations, we want to hear about the work that you or a colleague are doing.

Submit your "Research Wins" to ResearchWins@unm.edu to be featured in a future issue of the Research Report.