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April 15, 2024

ANNOUNCEMENTS

OVPR Principle Investigator Listserv


The Office of Vice President for Research is inviting principle investigators at UNM to sign up for the PI listserv. This listserv serves as a communication tool, so that PIs stay up to date on necessary information and details concerning UNM’s research enterprise. They will send out emails regarding, but not limited to:


  • Upcoming Grant Opportunities (internal and external)
  • Limited Competitions
  • Emerging Research Safety Protocols
  • Research Events and Celebrations
  • Open Calls for Proposals
  • Grant Writing Workshops


To sign up, click here.

Community-based Research Initiative 2024-2025 Call for Proposals

 

The UNM Center for Regional Studies (CRS) in partnership with the College of Arts & Sciences

(A &S) announces its Community-based Research Initiative. This initiative is to financially support

two community-based research project during FY25. The CRS and A & S partnership will provide

up to $30,000 for the fiscal year. CRS invites project proposals from UNM faculty.

 

For more information, click here

 

Proposals are due May 3

2024 Women in STEM Award Call for Nominations


The awards, now in their ninth year at UNM, range from $3,000 to $15,000, and three types of grants will be given. The categories include travel awards to foster collaborations, seed awards to stimulate research projects that will lead to additional external funding, and workshop awards designed to generate innovative research ideas and collaborations.


For more information, click here


Proposals are due May 14

RECENT AWARDS

Congratulations to the following for new awards received during the month of March

Lead PI: Lomeli Shull, Ph.D.

Biology

Functions of PRDM Histone Methyltransferases during Cartilage Development in the Craniofacial Skeleton

Funder: National Institutes of Health

Award: $35,897



Lead PI: Esteban Muldavin, Ph.D.

Co PIs: Su Zhang, Ph.D. and Christopher Lippitt, Ph.D.

Interdisciplinary Science Cooperative

New Mexico Terrestrial Habitat Map (NMHabMap)

Funder: New Mexico Game and Fish

Award: $900,000

Lead PI: Melvatha Chee, Ph.D.

Linguistics

Child Language Acquisition Symposium for Indigenous Communities

Funder: National Science Foundation

Award: $19,968




IN THE NEWS

FROM THE UNM NEWSROOM







FROM THE COLLEGE OF ARTS & SCIENCES



NEW PUBLICATIONS

Mechanochemically Enabled Metastable Niobium Tungsten Oxides

Lead Author: Basirat Raji-Adefila

Co-Authors: You Wang; Alexandra Outka; Hailey Gonzales; Dongchang Chen, Ph.D.

Department: Chemistry & Chemical Biology

Publisher: Journal of the American Chemical Society


Parkinson’s disease cerebrovascular reactivity pattern: A feasibility study

Co-Author: Erik Erhardt, Ph.D.

Department: Mathematics & Statistics

Publisher: Journal of Cerebral Blood Flow & Metabolism


Hypernatremia in Hyperglycemia: Clinical Features and Relationship to Fractional Changes in Body Water and Monovalent Cations during Its Development

Co-Author: James H. Degnan, Ph.D.

Department: Mathematics & Statistics

Publisher: Journal of Clinical Medicine


Locality of the windowed local density of states

Lead Author: Terry A. Loring, Ph.D.

Department: Mathematics & Statistics

Publisher: Numerische Mathematik

Genome sequencing identifies “Limestone Canyon virus” as Montaño virus (Hantaviridae: Orthohantavirus montanoense) circulating in brush deermice in New Mexico

Co-Authors: Kathryn E. Coan; Joseph A. Cook, Ph.D.; Jonathan L. Dunnum, Ph.D.; Jerry W. Dragoo, Ph.D.

Department: Museum of Southwestern Biology, Biology

Publisher: NPJ Viruses


Clarifying Relations Between Core Features of Psychopathy and Substance (Mis)use: A Replication and Extension in Two Large Independent Samples

Co-Author: Kent A. Kiehl, Ph.D.

Department: Psychology

Publisher: Journal of Personality Disorders


Establishing an Agenda for Public Budgeting and Finance Research

Co-Author: Agustin Leon-Moreta, Ph.D.

Department: School of Public Administration

Publisher: Public Finance Journal

PUBLISHER SPOTLIGHT





A History of Mexican Poetry

 

Co-edited by:

 

Anna M. Nogar, Ph.D.

Professor

Department of Spanish & Portuguese


 

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

STUDENT HIGHLIGHT

Mathematics & Statistics Graduate Students


Graduate students Sarah Poiani, Daniel Havens, Alexander Fritschi, and Umair Wani, along with former graduate student, Austin Bell, helped organize the Susie Rayos Marmon Elementary School Math Night. They brought their boundless enthusiasm for mathematics, tilings and puzzles on Tuesday, March 19, 2024.


Read more here

RESOURCES

& FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES

FOR STUDENTS


Research Exploration Connection (REC) - Short research opportunities for UNM undergrads


Center for Regional Studies UNM Graduate Student Fellowships - Deadline to apply is April 26


Arts & Sciences Support for Undergraduate Research Experiences (ASSURE) - Applications due April 30


Undergraduate Research, Arts & Design Network Opportunities


Internships and fellowships with DoD through ORISE




UNM RESEARCH DEVELOPMENT FUNDS


Scholarly Advancement Via Enterprise Research Software (SAVERS) - Deadline to apply is April 19


Center for Regional Studies Faculty Development Awards 2024-2025 - Deadline to apply is April 19


Provost's Professional Conference Support Funds - Applications due April 23


Environmental Health and Toxicology Pilot Awards from the UNM College of Pharmacy - Applications due May 13

EXTERNAL OPPORTUNITIES


Postdoctoral Associate (Colorado State University, Department of Fish, Wildlife, &

Conservation Biology) - Applications due May 15


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


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


Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Call for Letters of Inquiry: Creating Equitable Pathways to STEM Graduate Education - Submissions due July 1




LIMITED COMPETITIONS


Pew Biomedical Scholars Program - Statement of interest due April 18

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UPCOMING

EVENTS

April 17

AI & RESEARCH @ A&S

12 - 1:30 PM

Learn how faculty at the College of Arts & Sciences are using AI in their research


Register here



April 24

AI, PUBLIC DISCOURSE, & ELECTIONS

3 - 4:30 PM

A panel of UNM experts will share how AI may shape public discourse around elections


Register here


For more information, go to ARTSCI.UNM.EDU

2024 CARC User Meeting

April 16

Zimmerman Library Technology Enabled B30

STEM Education Grant Writing Symposium

April 18

11 AM - 4 PM

UNM SUB

UNM Psychology Research Day

April 19

Logan Hall

Planetary Sample Science Seminar Spring 2024

Presentations from January 31 - April 24

Intermountain West Transformation Network Spring Convergence Speaking Series


Shared Futures: Fostering Convergence and Envisioning Possible Futures with SciArt

With Dr. Yolanda Lin


April 24

11 - 11:50 AM

2024 Dr. Jane Blumenfeld Lecture

Promoting Equity for Multilinguals for Disabilities

Speaker: Dr. Sara Kangas


April 24

4:30 - 6 PM


RSVP here

Sandia @ UNM: “Using Extended Reality to Study Human Behavior – WAIT – Sandia Does That?” 

Speaker: Dr. Aaron Jones


April 25

5:30 PM

PAÍS 1100


RSVP here

UNM Tech Days

April 25 & 26

UNM SUB


Proposals due March 15

Submit here

Sev LTER Brown Bag Discussion

Tuesdays through finals week

12 - 1 PM

Spring 2024 NSF Grants Conference

June 3 - 5, 2024

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