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September 6, 2022

Message From the Associate Dean for Research

Last week, two new funding opportunities supported by the College were introduced in the Research Report and I’d like to take this opportunity to share a little more about them. Both programs are focused on supporting the development and execution of your research and, while the number of awards is dependent upon available funding, we hope to provide up to 13 awards per year for the Writing Subvention Program and up to 20 awards per year through the Supplemental Travel Program.

The Writing Subvention Program will provide up to $3,000 towards the development of monograph, monograph chapter, or other research publications. The Supplemental Travel Program will provide up to $2,000 in travel funds for A&S faculty and lecturers to support the communication of their research results. Both of these opportunities will be available in the Fall and the Spring, with the first deadline falling on September 15^th.

I encourage you all to take advantage of these new funding opportunities, and I look forward seeing the work that is produced from them.

Additionally, I would like congratulate and introduce the Fall Arts & Sciences Support for Undergraduate Research Experience (ASSURE) cohort. These students and their faculty mentors will be spending the semester developing their research which will be presented at a poster session this Spring. Please join me in congratulating the students and their mentors!

Irvin Arroyo-Torres

Biology

Faculty Mentor: Lisa Barrow, PhD

Troy Bencoe

Biochemistry

Faculty Mentor: Brian Gold, PhD

Mark Campbell

History and Women’s Studies

Faculty Mentor: Elizabeth Hutchison, PhD

Trinity Casaus

Biology

Faculty Mentor: Sara Brant, PhD

Fernando Garcia Cortez

Physics & Pure Mathematics

Faculty Mentor: Kevin Cahill, PhD

Murphy John

Applied Mathematics

Faculty Mentor: Yan Lin, PhD

Haydee Liu

Biochemistry

Faculty Mentor: Brian Gold, PhD

Abrianna Morales

Psychology and Criminology

Faculty Mentor: David Witherington, PhD

Dante Olivas

Sociology and Chicana/o Studies

Faculty Mentor: Patricia Perea, PhD

Carlos Ortega Lujan

Economics and Statistics

Faculty Mentor: Jingjing Wang, PhD

Melissa Rudden

Chemistry

Faculty Mentor: Jeff Rack, PhD

John San Nicolas

Religious Studies and Philosophy

Faculty Mentor: Richard Wood, PhD

Andrew Schumann

Political Science and History

Faculty Mentor: David Weiss, PhD

Abigail Stewart

Pre-Psychology

Faculty Mentor: Jeremy Hogeveen, PhD

Melina Vugrin

Environmental Science

Faculty Mentor: Zach Sharp, PhD

Until next month,

Christopher D. Lippitt, PhD

Associate Dean for Research

UNM College of Arts & Sciences

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LOCAL/NATIONAL NEWS

Celebrating 100 years of D.H. and Freida Lawrence - Santa Fe New Mexican

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FROM THE UNM NEWSROOM

Maxwell Museum of Anthropology seeks docents

D.H. Lawrence Centenary Celebration to be held in Taos

UNM Economics Department hosts New Mexico Economics Research Day

Cannabis legalization decreases the stock market value of major pharmaceutical firms

Lead PI: Keith Hunley, PhD

Co-PI: Ruizhe Liu

Anthropology

Does reliance on kin erode with market integration? A social network perspective

Funder: National Science Foundation

Award: $30,300

Lead PI: Matthew Hurteau, PhD

Co-PIs: Emily Francis, PhD; Chang Jung, PhD

Biology

Quantifying the realizable carbon potential of western US forests

Funder: Environmental Defense Fund

Award: $391,313

Lead PI: Mark Servilla, PhD

Co-PI: Kristin Vanderbilt, PhD

Biology

Collaborative Research: The Environmental Data Initiative - long-term availability of research data

Funder: National Science Foundation

Award: $1,497,520

Lead PI: Irene Salinas, PhD

Co-PI: Christopher Johnston, PhD

Center for Evolutionary and Theoretical Immunology (CETI)

Collaborative Research: The Environmental Data Initiative - long-term availability of research data

Funder: National Science Foundation

Award: $809,483

Lead PI: Ivan Deutsch, PhD

Co-PI: Pablo Poggi, PhD

Center for Quantum Information & Control (CQuIC)

Collaborative Research: Advances in Quantum Control and Noise Mitigation on a Highly Accurate Testbed

Funder: National Science Foundation

Award: $284,063

Lead PI: Laura Crossey, PhD

Earth & Planetary Sciences

Fate of Sulfur in Sulphur Creek, Valles Caldera, NM: Implications for metal transport and water quality in geothermal systems

Funder: New Mexico Water Resources Research Institute

Award: $7,005

Lead PI: Laura Crossey, PhD

Earth & Planetary Sciences

Spring Inventory: Cibola National Forest

Funder: Forest Service

Award: $15,000

Lead PI: Lindsay Worthington, PhD

Earth & Planetary Sciences

Collaborative Research: Investigating structure and seismicity within the southern M9.2 1964 Great Alaska earthquake rupture area using a dense node array

Funder: National Science Foundation

Award: $188,294

Lead PI: Kristine Denman, PhD

Institute for Social Research

SWREC Evaluation for 21st CCLC Programs via NMPED

Funder: Southwest Regional Education Cooperative

Award: $59,998

Lead PI: Paul Guerin, PhD

Co-PI: Elise Ferguson, PhD

Institute for Social Research

Bernalillo County Metropolitan Detention Center Population Research FY23

Funder: Bernalillo County

Award: $228,430

Congratulations to the following who received awards in August 2022

Lead PI: Paul Guerin, PhD

Institute for Social Research

New Mexico Aging and Long-term Services FY23

Funder: New Mexico Aging & Long-term Services Dept.

Award: $150,000

Lead PI: Erin Wilkinson, PhD

Linguistics

Collaborative Research: Function and form in the 'what' family of signs in American Sign Language

Funder: National Science Foundation

Award: $150,000

Lead PI: Melissa Binder, PhD

Master of Public Policy Program

YDI LENA Grow Evaluation

Funder: Youth Development, Inc.

Award: $15,000

Lead PI: Jacob Schroder, PhD

Mathematics & Statistics

Multigrid Reduction in Time for Chaotic and Hyperbolic Problems

Funder: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Award: $70,000

Lead PI: Guoyi Zhang, PhD

Mathematics & Statistics

Small area estimation using support vector machine and multiple task learning

Funder: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Award: $180,565.78

Lead PI: Joseph Cook, PhD

Co-PIs: Jeremy Edwards, PhD; Melanie Moses, PhD; Helen Wearing, PhD; Liping Yang, PhD

Museum of Southwestern Biology

PIPP Phase 1: Center for Emerging Pathogen Prediction and Integration

Funder: National Science Foundation

Award: $999,610

Lead PI: Rouzbeh Allahverdi, PhD

Physics & Astronomy

Probing the Early Cosmological History with Dark Matter

Funder: National Science Foundation

Award: $135,000

Lead PI: Michael Gold, PhD

Co-PI: Douglas Fields, PhD

Physics & Astronomy

Liquid Argon Detector R&D with Applications to the LEGEND and CCM Experiments

Funder: National Science Foundation

Award: $350,000

Lead PI: Dinesh Loomba, PhD

Physics & Astronomy

Enhancing the MIGDAL experiment's sensitivity in the low energy regime relevant to dark matter searches

Funder: National Science Foundation

Award: $455,451

Lead PI: Sally Seidel, PhD

Physics & Astronomy

Experimental Particle Physics

Funder: National Science Foundation

Award: $525,000

Lead PI: Gregory Taylor, PhD

Physics & Astronomy

Radio Observations Toward Gamma-Ray Pulsars

Funder: Associated Universities, Inc.

Award: $33,000

Lead PI: Theresa Moyers, PhD

Psychology

Service Contract with Department of Psychology Clinic from Bernalillo County

Funder: Bernalillo County

Award: $35,000

Modeling the Distribution of the Endangered Jemez Mountains salamander (Plethodon Neomexicanus) in relation to geography, topography, and climate

Co-Authors: Paul Neville and J. Tomasz Giermakowski

Department: Biology, Museum of Southwestern Biology, and Earth Data Analysis Center

Publication: Ecology and Evolution

Association Between Hospital-Acquired Harm Outcomes and Membership in a National Patient Safety Collaborative

Co-Author: David Purcell, PhD

Department: UNM Cradle to Career Policy Institute

Publication: JAMA Pediatrics

Structural Reforms are Needed to Support Mothers in Psychology

Author: Cassandra L. Boness, PhD

Department: Center on Alcohol, Substance Use, and Addictions

Publication: Nature Reviews Psychology

U.S. cannabis laws projected to cost generic and brand pharmaceutical firms billions

Co-Author: Sarah Stith, PhD

Department: Economics

Publication: PLOS One

Postcranial Description of Wendiceratops Pinhornensis and a Taphonomic analysis of the oldest monodominant ceratopsid bonebed

Co-Author: Michael J. Ryan

Department: History

Publication: The Anatomical Record

Addressing the ideologies of study abroad: Views from the U.S. context

Chapter Author: Emma Trentman, PhD

Department: Languages, Cultures, and Literatures

Publication: Designing Second Language Study Abroad Research

Continuation of Civil War by Other Means? Post-Conflict Peacebuilding in Nepal, Supplemental Materials

Co-Author: Wendy L. Hansen, PhD

Department: Political Science

Publication: Himalayan Research Papers Archive

Maxwell Museum of Anthropology

Annual Report 2021-2022

Department of Anthropology

UNM RESEARCH DEVELOPMENT FUNDS

Writing Subvention Program - proposals due September 15

Supplemental Travel Program - proposals due September 15

OVPR Outstanding Research Staff Awards - nominations due September 30, 2022

RAC Fall Proposals 2022 - Applications due October 15, 2022

FOR STUDENTS

Museum Research Traineeship - applications now being accepted

Undergrad Research Scholarship AMP -

applications being accepted until Sep. 9

LIMITED COMPETITIONS

EPA, Environmental Justice Thriving Communities Technical Assistance Centers Program (EJ TCTAC) - statements of interest due September 8, 2022

Nuclear Regulatory Commission, University Nuclear Leadership Program (UNLP) - applications due October 20, 2022

View more opportunities here

EXTERNAL OPPORTUNITIES

Dept. of the Navy (DON) Black Colleges and Universities/Minority Institutions (HBCU/MI) program - white papers due September 7, 2022

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Notice of Funding Opportunity - MENTOR-Bat Program - applications due September 9, 2022

Rainforest Accelerator Program - applications due September 25, 2022

Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI), 2023 Freeman Hrabowski Scholars - applications due September 28, 2022

NIH NCI Predoctoral to Postdoctoral Fellow Transition Award - pre-proposals due September 28, 2022

U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science Funding Opportunities - multiple opportunities through September 30, 2022

Whitehall Foundation Research Grants and Grants-in-Aid - letters of intent due October 1, 2022

Lab Director Jill Hruby Postdoctoral Fellowship Program - applications due October 17, 2022

NSF Small Business Innovation Research Phase II (SBIR)/ Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Programs Phase II (SBIR/STTR Phase II) - various submission windows through October 26, 2022

President Harry S. Truman Postdoctoral Fellowship Program - applications due November 1, 2022

HSI Program Network Resource Centers and Hubs - letters of intent due by November 14, 2022

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Spanish and Portugese

Professor Anna M. Nogar (Spanish and Portuguese) and retired Distinguished Professor A. Gabriel Meléndez (American Studies) were recently awarded the Bronze Prize in the 2022 International Latino Book Awards in the category of Fiction Translation: Spanish to English for their 2021 book El feliz ingenio neomexicano: Felipe M. Chacón and Poesía y prosa (University of New Mexico Press). The judges commented "A lot of loving work went into this bilingual volume; the translated text feels like original writing"

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Wednesday, September 28

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Foundation for Endangered Languages 26th Annual Conference

November 2-4, 2022

Research and Discovery Week

November 5 - 11, 2022

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