June 6, 2022

With the summer in full swing, it's a great time for many of us to turn our attention to working on large-scale projects. At the Office of Research, one such project is the update of our website at ASResearch.unm.edu. When the academic year begins in the Fall, we look forward to launching this new site with a more externally-focused vision that not only shows off why WeR1 at the College of Arts & Sciences but gives a more inclusive view of the work being done at the College.

One such addition to this site is a new faculty experts directory. This directory will serve as a resource to both our internal and external community to not only find potential collaborators but highlight the work that you are doing at an individual level.

I am excited to announce that after months of design, the faculty experts directory is live and ready for A&S faculty to begin creating their profiles. I highly encourage all faculty to go to here at your convenience this summer to create your account, which takes minutes to do. When the new research site launches in the Fall, I hope to see as many of you listed in there as possible so that we can highlight your work throughout our internal and external community.

In addition to the faculty experts directory, I encourage all of you involved in community-engaged research to fill out this short survey by June 30th. As part of the website redesign and broader communications efforts as a whole, we'd like to highlight the work you are doing in collaboration with the community. Please note that filling out this survey does not guarantee that your community collaborations will be highlighted in all of the College's external communications. However, we will make every effort to ensure that as many of these collaborations are given recognition through various communication outlets.

We hope that you find this new directory - and this Fall's new website - to be a valuable resource and encourage feedback to ResearchWins@unm.edu. 

Until next month,

Christopher D. Lippitt, PhD

Associate Dean for Research

UNM College of Arts & Sciences

Diatom evidence for a groundwater divide that limited the extent of Lake Estancia, New Mexico, USA, highstands during the Last Glacial Maximum

Co-Authors: Rebecca Bixby, PhD and Savannah Cutler

Department: Biology and Earth & Planetary Sciences

Publication: GSA Bulletin

Symmetry of Cosmological Observables, a Mirror World Dark Sector, and the Hubble Constant

Author: Francis Cyr-Racine, PhD

Department: Physics & Astronomy

Publication: Physical Review Letters

Belowground responses to altered precipitation regimes in two semi-arid grasslands

Co-Author: Scott Collins, PhD

Department: Biology

Publication: Soil Biology and Biochemistry

Population Continuity and Mobility Across Mesoamerica

Chapter Co-Author: Heather Edgar, PhD

Department: Anthropology

Publication: The Routledge Handbook of Mesoamerican Bioarchaeology

LT1, an ONT long-read-based assembly scaffolded with Hi-C data and polished with short reads

Co-Author: Jeremy Edwards, PhD

Department: Chemistry & Chemical Biology

Publication: (GIGA)byte

Structurally investigating a niche pathway for chemical reversal of proline hydroxylation in the pathogen Clostridioides difficile

Co-Authors: Brian Gold, PhD

Department: Chemistry and Chemical Biology

Publication: The Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology (FASEB) Journal

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Co-Author: Frances Hayashida, PhD

Department: Anthropology

Publication: Andean Past

Looking at the Distant Universe with the MeerKAT Array: Discovery of a Luminous OH Megamaser at z>0.5

Co-Author: Patricia Henning, PhD

Department: Physics & Astronomy

Publication: The Astrophysical Journal Letters

The Naco Clovis Site: Old Excavations and New Dates

Author: Bruce Huckell, PhD

Co-Author: Lisa Huckell, PhD

Department: Anthropology

Publication: PaleoAmerica

Surrogate modeling for efficiently, accurately, and conservatively estimating measures of risk

Co-Author: Gabriel Huerta, PhD

Department: Mathematics & Statistics

Publication: Reliability Engineering and System Safety

Evaluating the Protective Behavioral Strategies for Marijuana Scale (PBSM) short-form: Support for a two-factor structure and measurement invariance

Co-Author: Margo Hurlocker, PhD

Department: Psychology

Publication: Drug and Alcohol Dependence

Late Cretaceous time-transgressive onset of Laramide arch exhumation and basin subsidence across northern Arizona-New Mexico, USA, and the role of a dehydrating Farallon flat slab

Co-Author: Karl Karlstrom, PhD

Department: Earth & Planetary Sciences

Publication: GSA Bulletin

Scratching the Itch: Updated Perspectives on the Schistosomes Responsible for Swimmer's Itch Around the World

Author: Eric Loker, PhD

Co-Author: Sara Brant, PhD

Department: Museum of Southwestern Biology

Publication: Pathogens

Stable isotope fingerprinting traces essential amino acid assimilation and multichannel feeding in a vertebrate consumer

Author: Phillip Manlick, PhD

Co-Author: Seth Newsome, PhD

Department: Biology

Publication: Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Effects of age-of-acquisition on proficiency in Polish Sign Language: Insights to the critical period hypothesis

Co-Author: Jill Morford, PhD

Department: Linguistics

Publication: Frontiers in Psychology

The Effect of Social Security Coverage on U.S. State and Local Government Public Pension Plan Funding

Author: Bruce Perlman, PhD

Department: School of Public Administration

Publication: Compensation & Benefits Review

Feasibility of Remotely Supervised Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (RS-tDCS) for People with Strok-Induced and Progressive Aphasia

Author: Jessica Richardson, PhD

Department: Speech & Hearing Sciences

Publication: Aphasiology

Evaluating contributions of relative vocabulary size and demand for use on masked-speech recognition for bilingual children with normal hearing

Co-Author: Barbara Rodriguez, PhD

Department: Speech & Hearing Sciences

Publication: The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Rainfall pulse regime drives biomass and community composition in biological soil crusts

Co-Authors: Jennifer Rudgers, PhD and Scott Collins, PhD

Department: Biology

Publication: Ecology

Embedded pairs for optimal explicit strong stability preserving Runge-Kutta methods

Co-Author: John Shadid, PhD

Department: Mathematics & Statistics

Publication: Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics

Synthesis, physicochemical characterization and pharmaceutical function of niosmal nanoparticles-encapsulated bioactive compound for osteosarcoma treatment

Author: Julie Spencer

Co-Author: Helen Wearing, PhD

Department: Mathematics & Statistics, Biology

Publication: Journal of Theoretical Biology

Distinguishing viruses responsible for influenza-like illness

Co-Author: Davood Tofighi, PhD

Department: Psychology

Publication: Nanomedicine Journal

Variations in national availability of waivered buprenorphine prescribers by racial and ethnic composition of zip codes

Co-author: Kamilla Venner, PhD

Department: Psychology

Publication: Substance Abuse, Treatment, and Policy

Cannabis consumption and prosociality

Author: Jacob Vigil, PhD

Co-Authors: Sarah Stith, PhD and Tiphanie Chanel

Department: Psychology and Economics

Publication: Scientific Reports

Afrofuturism: Race, Erasure, and COVID

Author: Belinda Wallace, PhD

Department: English Language and Literature

Publication: Radical Teacher

Efficient markets are more connected: An entropy-based analysis of the energy, industrial metal and financial markets

Author: Xiaoyang Wang, PhD

Department: Economics

Publication: Energy Economics

Predictors of abstinence, no heavy drinking days, and a 2-level reduction in World Health Organization drinking levels during treatment for alcohol use disorder in the COMBINE study

Co-Author: Katie Witkiewitz, PhD

Department: Center on Alcohol, Substance Use, and Addictions (CASAA)

Publication: Alcoholism Clinical and Experimental Research

Early stages of speciation with gene flow in the Amazilia Hummingbird (Amazilis amazilia) subspecies complex of Western South America

Co-Author: Chris Witt, PhD

Department: Museum of Southwestern Biology

Publication: Ecology and Evolution

Trying Out a Million Genes to Find the Perfect Pair with RTIST

Author: Gleb Zhelezov, PhD

Co-Author: James Degnan, PhD

Department: Mathematics & Statistics

Publication: Bioinformatics

The effects of highly reduced magmatism revealed through aubrites

Co-Author: Karen Ziegler, PhD

Department: Institute of Meteoritics

Publication: Meteoritics & Planetary Science

"Did you eat a MOLEcule today?" An Interactive Demonstration of Molecular Weight with Real-Time Breath Analysis Using Mass Spectrometry

Department: Chemistry and Chemical Biology Mass Spectroscopy Facility

Publication: Journal of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry

An Enemy Such as This: Larry Casuse and the Fight for Native Liberation in One Family on Two Continents over Three Centuries

David Correia, PhD

Professor

American Studies

ADDITIONAL ITEMS

Software Submission Form

Research Project Submission

Because the Research Report will become a monthly publication for the summer, we wanted to be sure that we recognized the following students and faculty for their recent outstanding accomplishments.

Korey Tillman

Graduate Student

Sociology



Congratulations to Korey Tillman who is one of five UNM students who received a Fulbright Award. Korey will be spending the next academic year in South Africa to continue his comparative (United States and South Africa) ethnographic and archival research on the anti-black and colonial roots of contemporary policing. 

Emma Asonye, PhD

Postdoctoral Fellow

Africana Studies

Congratulations to Emma Asonye for launching his new app, Indigenous Hands (iHands). The app is dedicated to promoting deaf literacy, creating pathways for deaf bilingual education, and enhancing early intervention programs for deaf children. Currently, it contains data from Nigerian deaf communities, but will be updated with data from other African deaf communities. Eventually, it will also include Indigenous signing varieties in New Mexico communities and beyond. iHands is available on the Google Play Store (soon to launch in the Apple Store).

Holly Guise, PhD

Assistant Professor

History

Congratulations to Assistant Professor, Holly Guise, who has received two fellowships: one from the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) and another from the Ford Foundation. Over the course of the 2022-2023 academic year, these fellowships will support the completion of her monograph, Alaska Native Nations: The First People of the Last Frontier During World War II, and to continue to develop her oral history website: worldwarIIalaska.com.

Nancy López, PhD

Director and Co-founder,

Institute for Study of "Race" & Social Justice

Associate Vice President

Division for Equity and Inclusion

Professor, Sociology

Congratulations to Nancy López for being the 2022 recipient of the UNM Alumni Association's Faculty Teaching Award. Lopez and her fellow award recipients were honored at the Alumni Awards dinner on April 20, 2022.  

Zach Sharp, PhD

Regents' & Distinguished Professor

Earth & Planetary Sciences

Congratulations to Regents' and Distinguished Professor, Zach Sharp, for being the 2022 recipient of the UNM Alumni Association's Research Award. Zach and his fellow award recipients were honored at the Alumni Awards dinner on April 20, 2022.

Roli Varma, PhD

Professor

School of Public Administration

Congratulations to Roli Varma, who was invited to serve on a panel with NSF's 15th director, the Honorable Sethuraman Panchanathan. The panel took place on May 24th in recognition of Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month. Varma's vast research of the AA and Native Hawaiian Pacific Islander (NHPI) community spurred the invitation to share her expertise with NSF's workforce.

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



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.