Tapia Receives International Award for Computing Research
Lydia Tapia, an assistant professor in The University of New Mexico Department of Computer Science in the School of Engineering, has been awarded the Borg Early Career Award from the Computing Research Association – Women (CRA-W). The award recognizes an early-career faculty member or researcher in an industry or government lab who has made significant research contributions and also has had a positive and significant impact on advancing women and diversity in the computing research community. Nominations are received from institutions across North America. This is the first award to a researcher in New Mexico.
UNM Assistant Professor, Victor Acosta has been awarded the prestigious, Young Investigator Award from the Arnold and Mable Beckman Foundation. Acosta was one of only 8 recipients in 2017. His research project is titled, “Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy on a Diamond Chip.”
The Department of Defense (DoD) Peer Reviewed Cancer Research Program (PRCRP) has been charged by U.S. Congress to fund innovative basic, applied, and translational cancer research to support Service members, their families, and the American public. The mission of the PRCRP is to successfully promote high-impact research for cancer prevention, detection, treatment, and survivorship. Assistant Professor, Lina Cui, from the UNM Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, was recently awarded a Career Development Award from this agency for her proposed project titled, "Development of Diagnostic Tools for Metastatic Melanoma via Imaging of Heparanase Activity".
Sang Lee, assistant professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at The University of New Mexico, has been awarded one of Oak Ridge Associate Universities (ORAU) 2017 Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Awards. His selection is especially significant because there were 125 applicants from which 37 awardees were chosen.