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Letter From the Associate Dean for Research | |
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The College of Arts & Sciences has a long history of partnering with our community to improve the life of residents in the state of New Mexico and beyond. To continue this tradition, I am excited to announce that the College has partnered with the Center for Regional Studies to directly support the development of practical solutions to the challenges faced by our communities.
Through the Community-Based Research Initiative, two community-based research projects that engage with communities in New Mexico or the Southwest will receive $30,000 to support their efforts over the 2022-2023 academic year (with the option of a second year in 2023-2024). Proposals are due May 2, 2022 and all College of Arts & Sciences faculty are encouraged to apply.
Empowering our communities to become active participants in the research process is vital to producing outcomes that make positive impacts for generations to come. Through the Community-Based Research Initiative, we look forward to supporting these efforts and expanding upon the tradition of community-engaged scholarship that serves as a point of pride for the College, and UNM more broadly.
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Christopher D. Lippitt, PhD
Associate Dean for Research
College of Arts & Sciences
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Keynote Speaker:
Sanjeev Arora, MD, MACP, FACG
Founder and Director, Project ECHO
Democratizing Access to Best Practice Healthcare in New Mexico - Project ECHO
Tuesday, April 19 at 9:00
PAÍS 1100
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THIS WEEK'S SESSION HIGHLIGHTS
Co-op Collaboration Series Kick-off:
Asking Different Questions in Collaborative Research
Thursday, April 21 at 11:00 in PAÍS 2120
Learn how the leadership of the Feminist Research Institute at the University of California at Davis are producing research outcomes that facilitate meaningful and respectful dialogue across disciplinary and cultural divides, and gain tools to apply their equity-based solutions to your own research projects.
Re-Imagining UNM's Grand Challenges Program
Tuesday, April 19 at 11:00 in PAÍS 1100
UNM’s Grand Challenges program is growing and changing. Learn about the Grand Challenge program and opportunities to form or join interdisciplinary research teams that use research, innovation and collaboration to address New Mexico’s greatest challenges.
Sandia-UNM Partnerships
Thursday, April 21 at 10:00 via Zoom
Have you ever been interested in working with Sandia National Laboratories on a potential research project? Learn from a panel of current Sandia-UNM collaborators on how their projects began and where their partnerships have taken them.
Go to
ISCO-OP.UNM.EDU/TEAMS
for more information on these sessions and more
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The University Libraries is currently investigating a campus-wide subscription to Nexis Uni (previous known as Lexis-Nexis Academic) – a database that focuses on news, business, and legal sources. To better understand the instruction and research need for this particular resource compared with other resources to which they currently subscribe (e.g. Factiva, WestLaw Campus Research, HeinOnline) they are conducting a survey.
The survey will be available until Friday, April 8th and your input will help to inform next steps.
You may also direct questions or additional comments to the UL Director of Collections, Laura Soito.
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Lead PI: Emily Jones, PhD
Anthropology
Doctoral Dissertation Research: Between Wild and Domestic: Intermediate Bird Management at Paquimé and Pottery Mound
Funder: National Science Foundation
Award: $9,080
Lead PI: Brian Gold, PhD
Chemistry & Chemical Biology
Synthetic Peptides for Selective Metal Sequestration in Waste Treatment: Development of a High-Throughput Screening Platform
Funder: Savannah River Nuclear Solutions, LLC
Award: $249,517
Lead PI: Dana Bell
Cradle to Career Policy Institute
Examining the Impact of National and State Policy on Economically Vulnerable Children and Children of Color: A Study of New Mexico Child Care Expansion Policies
Funder: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Award: $600,000
Lead PI: Hailey Heinz
Cradle to Career Policy Institute
First Born Research Agenda and Evaluation
Funder: Santa Fe Community College
Award: $25,010
Lead PI: Eric Lindsey, PhD
Earth & Planetary Sciences
Acquisition of Computing Facilities to support Collaborative Geophysics Research at the University of New Mexico
Funder: National Science Foundation
Award: $94,997
Lead PI: Sharon Oard Warner
English Language and Literature
4th Annual D. H. Lawrence Lecture: World Premier of D.H. Lawrence's Unfinished Play
Funder: NM Humanities Council
Award: $2,988
Lead PI: Yolanda Lin, PhD
Geography & Environmental Studies
Understanding benefits of earthquake early warning to technical users
Funder: US Geological Survey
Award: $36,086
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Lead PI: Yan Lin, PhD
Interdisciplinary Science Cooperative
Integrating big data with individual-level data and modeling to improve the understanding and prediction of rocky mountain spotted fever dynamics
Funder: University of Idaho
Award: $387,857
Lead PI: Naomi Shin, PhD
Linguistics
Equitable assessment of early childhood language in multilingual-multicultural early education classrooms
Funder: McCune Charitable Foundation
Award: $15,000
Lead PI: Fletcher Christensen, PhD
Mathematics & Statistics
Unsupervised anomaly detection of extreme events with nonparametric time-varying quantile discriminators
Funder: Sandia National Laboratories
Award: $35,000
Lead PI: Esteban Muldavin, PhD
National Heritage New Mexico
NMDGF New Mexico Riparian Habitat Map (NM RIPMAP) Supplement
Funder: NM Game & Fish Department
Award: $706,735
Lead PI: Russell Greaves, PhD
Office of Contract Archaeology
Class II and III Cultural Resources Survey of 20 Acres along the Cimarron River Drainage in Colfax County, New Mexico
Funder: New Mexico Game and Fish Department
Award: $9,618
Lead PI: Darcy Barron, PhD
Physics & Astronomy
Enabling Discoveries in Fundamental Physics by Maximizing the Sensitivity of Cosmic Microwave Background Polarization Surveys from Chile
Funder: Research Corporation for Science Advancement
Award: $100,000
Lead PI: Mala Htun, PhD
Political Science
Collaborative Research: AGEP ACA to Engage Leaders to Improve Diversity among STEM Faculty
Funder: National Science Foundation
Award: $194,866
Lead PI: Benjamin Clark, PhD
Psychology
Neural Basis of Spatial Memory Deficits After Prenatal Alcohol Exposure
Funder: National Institutes of Health
Award: $328,879
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Comparative mitogenomics of freshwater snails of the genus Bulinus, obligatory vectors of Schistosoma haematobium, causative agent of human urogenital schistosomiasis
Lead Author: Si-Ming Zhang, PhD
Co-Authors: Lijing Bu, PhD; Lijun Lu; Caitlin Babbitt, PhD Candidate; Coen M. Adema, PhD; Eric S. Loker, PhD
Department: Biology
Publication: Scientific Reports volume 12, Article number: 5357 (2022)
Use of a Novel Detection Tool to Survey Orthohantaviruses in Wild-Caught Rodent Populations
Co-Author: Joseph A. Cook, PhD.
Department: Biology, Museum of Southwestern Biology
Publication: Viruses 14, no. 4: 682
Towards Synoptic Water Monitoring Systems: A Review of AI Methods for Automating Water Body Detection and Water Quality Monitoring Using Remote Sensing
Lead Author: Liping Yang, PhD
Co-Authors: Joshua Driscol; Sarigai Sarigai, PhD Candidate; Christopher D. Lippitt, PhD; Melinda Morgan, PhD
Department: Geography and Environmental Studies
Publication: Sensors
Modeling the Cluster Size Distribution of Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor (VEGF) Receptors
Co-Authors: Michael J. Wester, PhD and Jeremy S. Edwards, PhD
Department: Mathematics and Statistics, Chemistry and Chemical Biology
Publication: Bioinformatics and Biology Insights
Dynamic model of monovalent-divalent cation exchange in polyelectrolyte gels
Co-Author: Owen Lewis, PhD
Department: Mathematics and Statistics
Publication: Physical Review Materials 6, 035602
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Cosmic ray spectrum of protons plus helium nuclei between 6 and 158 TeV from HAWC data
Co-Author: John A. Matthews, PhD
Department: Physics and Astronomy
Publication: Physical Review D 105, 063021
Alcohol use disorder relapse factors: an exploratory investigation of craving, alcohol dependence severity, and meaning in life
Co-Author: Katie Witkiewitz PhD.
Department: Psychology
Publication: Addiction Research & Theory
The Status of SBIRT Training in Health Professions Education: A Cross-Discipline Review and Evaluation of SBIRT Curricula and Educational Research.
Co-Authors: Margo C. Hurlocker-Villarosa, PhD. & Daniel C. Williams, PhD.
Department: Psychology
Publication: Journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges
Teacher’s Corner: An R Shiny App for Sensitivity Analysis for Latent Growth Curve Mediation
Co-Authors: Davood Tofighi, PhD; Katie Witkiewitz, PhD.
Department: Psychology
Publication: Structural Equation Modeling: A Multidisciplinary Journal
Sexually dimorphic organization of open field behavior following moderate prenatal alcohol exposure
Co-Authors: Monica Goncalves Garcia, PhD Candidate; Tia N Donaldson, PhD Candidate; Gabriela Acosta, PhD Candidate; Lilliana M. Sanchez, PhD Candidate; Daniel D. Savage, PhD; Benjamin J. Clark, PhD
Department: Psychology
Publication: Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research
Being Asian American Women Scientists and Engineers in the United States: Intersection of Ethnicity and Gender
Author: Roli Varma, PhD
Department: School of Public Administration
Publication: American Behavioral Scientist
Does accountability improve government performance? Evidence from the U.S. state fiscal monitoring and intervention systems
Co-Author: Young Joo Park, PhD
Department: School of Public Administration
Publication: Public Management Review
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UNM RESEARCH DEVELOPMENT FUNDS
2022-2023 Inclusive Excellence Postdoctoral & Visiting Scholars Program - due April 4, 2022
Provost's Professional Conference Support Program - due April 8, 2022
2022 Women in STEM Awards - due April 29, 2022
2022 University of New Mexico Women in STEM (WIS) Faculty Development Fund - due April 29, 2022
Community-Based Research Initiative - due May 2, 2022
ADVANCE: Faculty Professional Development Assistance - during Spring 2022
LIMITED COMPETITIONS
Brain Research Foundation Scientific Innovations Award - preproposals due April 5, 2022
Limited Competition: NEH Infrastructure and Capacity Building Challenge Grants: Capital
Projects and Digital Projects, (20220517-CHA) - proposals due April 5, 2022 with additional deadlines in May
EPSCoR Research Infrastructure Improvement (RII) Track-4: EPSCoR Research Fellows program - due April 12, 2022
DOE, Urban Integrated Field Laboratories (IFL), (DE-FOA-0002581) - mandatory pre-application due April 19, 2022 with full proposals due June 16, 2022
NSF, Innovation Corps Hubs Program (I-Corps™ Hubs), NSF 22-566 - due May 11, 2022
NSF, Research Visioning for Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE): Future Research Directions for CISE Community (CISE-RV), NSF 22-567 - letters of intent due May 10, 2022 with full proposals due October 5, 2022
Training-based Workforce Development for Advanced Cyberinfrastructure (CyberTraining), NSF, (19-524) - due May 16, 2022
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FOR STUDENTS
Workforce Capacity in Municipal Government - due April 4, 2022
2022-2023 McNair and Research Opportunity Program (ROP) - priority deadline April 18, 2022
Interdisciplinary Science Cooperative's Undergraduate Fellowship in Water Management - Deadline Extended to May 6, 2022
Fulbright Scholarship U.S. Student Program - UNM Deadline: September 6, 2022
Postdoc Position at the University of Idaho: Establish a Smooth Data Life Cycle to Accelerate the Study of Tick-Borne Disease Dynamics
EXTERNAL OPPORTUNITIES
National Medal of Science - Call for Nominations - open February 7 - May 20, 2022
NM Space Grant Fall 2022 - Spring 2023 Scholarships and Fellowships - due April 11, 2022
Conservation Planning and Technical Service Provider (TSP) Training Development - due April 11, 2022
2022 Soil Science Collaborative Research Proposals - due April 12, 2022
Identifying visitor services and opportunities to inform the application of the National
Park Service Intermountain Region’s Tourism Toolkit - statement of interest due April 30, 2022
Examining Commercial and Non-commercial Visitor Use on Blue Mesa Reservoir and the adjacent Gunnison River at Curecanti National Recreation Area - statement of interest due April 30, 2022
U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science Funding Opportunities - multiple opportunities through September 30, 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
View more opportunities here
OTHER OPPORTUNITIES
Grand Challenges Request for Proposals 2022 - Level 1: Developing Concept Teams - due May 10, 2022
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To nominate A&S research faculty, staff, or students for a future Highlight, please send an e-mail to ResearchWins@unm.edu
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PUNNY STORY
Have a Punny Story to share? Please send it to ResearchWins@unm.edu if you'd like us to include it in a future Research Report.
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Submit your "Research Wins" to ResearchWins@unm.edu to be featured in a future issue of the Research Report.
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