Weekly Research Report

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Announcements from the Office of Research

February 14, 2022

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Kirsten Pai Buick new director of Africana Studies

Anthropology department highlights Black History Month

Two UNM professors elected AAAS Fellows

UNM Associate Provost awarded the 2022 Lauren Shannon Prize

UNM English professor awarded 2022 Article Prize

Congratulations to the following on

new awards received between

February 7 - February 11, 2022

Lead PI: Ivan Deutsch, PhD

High-Fidelity Quantum Information Processing with Arrays of Trapped Neutral Atoms

Funder: Sandia National Laboratories

Award: $20,000

Lead PI: Brian Keller

Earth Data Analysis Center

Building Footprint Tool Update

Funder: Focused Planning Solutions LLC

Award: $34,576

Lead PI: Hailey Heinz

Cradle to Career Policy Institute

Early Childhood Workforce Compensation Framework

Funder: Growing Up New Mexico

Award: $55,000

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Differential responses of grassland community nonstructural carbohydrate to experimental drought along a natural aridity gradient

Co-author: Scott L. Collins, PhD

Department: Biology

Publication: Science of The Total Environment

Assessing the Potential of Amino Acid δ13C and δ15N Analysis in Terrestrial and Freshwater Ecosystems

Lead Author: Alexi C. Besser, PhD Candidate

Co-authors: Emma A. Elliott Smith, PhD and Seth D. Newsome, PhD

Department: Biology

Publication: Journal of Ecology

Sediment cores in a municipal drinking-water reservoir as a record of geochemical transport within a watershed, Farmington Lake, New Mexico, USA

Co-author: Rebecca J. Bixby, PhD

Department: Biology and Museum of Southwestern Biology

Publication: Environmental Earth Sciences

Allosterism in the PDZ Family

Lead Author: Amy O. Stevens, PhD Candidate

Co-author: Yi He, PhD

Department: Chemistry and Chemical Biology

Publication: International Journal of Molecular Sciences

The promise of excess mobility analysis: measuring episodic-mobility with geotagged social media data

Co-author: Xi Gong, PhD

Department: Geography and Environmental Studies

Publication: Cartography and Geographic Information Science

Managing Sign Language Video Data Collected from the Internet

Chapter Co-Author: Erin Wilkinson, PhD

Department: Linguistics

Publication: The MIT Press

Engagement with Emerging Forms of Sextech: Demographic Correlates from a National Sample of Adults in the United States

Co-author: Tania A. Reynolds, PhD

Department: Psychology

Publication: The Journal of Sex Research

Stigmatizing Terminology for Outcomes and Processes (STOP) in Alcohol Research

Co-author: Katie Witkiewitz, PhD

Department: Psychology

Publication: Journal of Addiction Medicine

Carceral Liberalism: The Coloniality and Antiblackness of Coercive Benevolence

Author: Korey Tillman, PhD Candidate

Department: Sociology

Publication: Social Problems

Paleolithic Human Responses to Changing Aridity at Üçağızlı I cave, southern-coastal Turkey: Application of a Novel Carbon Isotope-based Method

Co-Author: Jessica C. Rowland

Department: Sustainability Studies Program

Publication: Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory

Para vivir con salud: Leyendo la salud y la literatura

Kathryn Joy McKnight, PhD

Department of Spanish & Portuguese

UNM RESEARCH DEVELOPMENT FUNDS

Provost's Professional Conference Support Program - various deadlines throughout Spring 2022

Research Allocations Committee spring proposals - due February 1 - 15, 2022

Graduate Incentive Awards - due February 15, 2022

Globally-Engaged Research Awards CALL FOR NOMINATIONS - due March 4, 2022

WeR1: Program for Enhancing Research Capacity (PERC) Spring 2022 - due March 11, 2022

Diversity and Distinction Awards - March 15, 2022

ADVANCE: Faculty Professional Development Assistance - during Spring 2022

FOR STUDENTS

Paid Internship and Fellowship Opportunities with the Department of Defense - apply now

Lane Scholarship - due February 24, 2022

Graduate Studies Summer Dissertation Award - due March 11, 2022

LAII Field Research Grant - due March 11, 2022

The Quantum Undergraduate Research Experience at the Center for High Technology Materials (QU-REACH) - due March 11, 2022

Fulbright Scholarship U.S. Student Program - UNM Deadline: September 6, 2022

EXTERNAL OPPORTUNITIES

Department of Energy Office of Environmental Management Minority Serving Institutions Partnership Program (MSIPP) Postdoctoral Research Program

Dear Colleague Letter: Announcement of Upcoming Topics for the 2022 NSF Convergence Accelerator Solicitation- TBA

National Medal of Science - Call for Nominations - open February 7 - May 20, 2022

Intelligence Community Postdoctoral Research Fellowship Program - applications due February 28, 2022

Universities Research Association's (URA) Visiting Scholars Program - due February 28, 2022

U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) 2022 HSI Fellowships - applications due March 2, 2022

NM Space Grant Fall 2022 - Spring 2023 Scholarships and Fellowships - due April 11, 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

Dear Colleague Letter: High School Student Research Assistantships (MPS-High) Funding to Broaden Participation in the Mathematical and Physical Sciences

LIMITED COMPETITIONS

Harpo Foundation, New Work Project Grants- pre-proposals due February 16, 2022

Graham Foundation Grants to Organizations - stage one due February 25, 2022, with subsequent deadlines

NSF Cultural Transformation in the Geoscience Community (CTGC), NSF 22-562 - letters of inquiry due March 14 with full proposals due May 2, 2022

EPSCoR Research Infrastructure Improvement (RII) Track-4: EPSCoR Research Fellows program - due April 12, 2022

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REGISTRATION OPENS

MARCH 14, 2022

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A Call for Presenters is now open for the following sessions:

Public Impact Research Presentations
Public Impact Research Projects
Researchers Panel
Convergence on Tap: Campus Convergence

SUBMISSIONS ARE DUE

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Know a special alumna/us who would be interested in sharing their experiences working with teams?

A Call for Presenters is also open for our fellow Lobos:

Convergence on Tap: Alumni Team-Based Research Experiences

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SUBMISSIONS ARE DUE

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Undergraduate and Graduate Student Team Research Concept competitions are also now accepting submissions

Click here for more info and to apply

SUBMISSIONS ARE DUE MARCH 1, 2022

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Congratulations to Beau Murphy, PhD Candidate in Anthropology, for receiving the NSF Doctoral Dissertation Improvement award. His research titled, Political Power and the Use of Geographic Space examines the Inka appropriation and reorganization of the site of Turi in the high-altitude Atacama Desert in Chile.

To nominate A&S research faculty, staff, or students for a future Highlight, please send an e-mail to ResearchWins@unm.edu

Science Behind the Scenery Webinar Series

- Tuesdays from February 15 - March 15, 2022

Using the Arts to Flip Understanding

- February 17, 2022 at 12:00

LI Journal of Anthropological Research Distinguished Lecture - February 24, 2022

Save the Date: UNM Research Town Hall with VPR Fisher - March 1, 2022

Fulbright Scholarship U.S. Student Program Group Presentation Session

- March 21, 2022

CTSC Health Hackathon - March 25 - 27, 2022

Quantum New Mexico Symposium

- March 31 - April 1, 2022

Undergraduate Research Opportunity Conference (UROC) - April 7, 2022

Team Research Symposium - April 19 - 21, 2022

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