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EARLY INVESTIGATOR NEWS ARCHIVE

 

There are a number of Early Career specific funding opportunities. You can find more about them by searching the Early Career Investigator Funding Opportunities page. Below is an archive celebrating the early career specific achievements of principal investigators at the University of New Mexico.

Assistant Professor Victor Acosta Receives the NIH NIBIB Trailblazer Early Career Investigator Award

UNM Assistant Professor, Victor Acosta has just received the, NIH NIBIB Trailblazer Early Career Investigator Award. The Trailblazer Award is an opportunity for new and early stage investigators to pursue research programs of high interest to the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB) that integrate engineering and the physical sciences with the life and behavioral sciences. His research project is titled, “Single-cell magnetic microscopy with multicolor superparamagnetic probes".

Zhen Peng Wins NSF CAREER Award

Zhen Peng Wins NSF CAREER Award. Chaos is never a good thing, whether it involves a messy room or messy waveforms. It is the latter that is the chief focus of a University of New Mexico researcher. downtown Albuquerque. Zhen Peng, an assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering, is the recipient of a National Science Foundation CAREER Award for a project titled “Physics-Oriented Statistical Wave Analysis Integrating Order and Chaos.” The $500,000 award begins Feb. 15 and ends Jan. 31, 2023.

Engineering Professor Wins Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award

Mehran Tehrani, an assistant professor of mechanical engineering at The University of New Mexico, has been awarded the 2018 Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award. Tehrani was one of 31 selected out of 340 applicants to receive this award. Each award is $510,000 over a three-year period. The Young Investigator Program awards are given to scientists whose research holds strong promise across a wide range of naval-relevant science and technology areas.

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