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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 Ruecker Named National Academy of Education / Spencer Postdoctoral Fellow

UNM faculty member Todd Ruecker has been named a prestigious National Academy of Education (NAEd) / Spencer Postdoctoral Fellow due to his research and dedication to the field of education. Todd Ruecker is an assistant professor of English at the University of New Mexico. The title of his project is "Linguistic Minority Students and Literacy Education in Rural and Small Town High Schools".

Feezell Receives NSF CAREER Award to Study Blue and Green Vertical-cavity Lasers

Daniel Feezell, an assistant professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of New Mexico, has received a $500,000 National Science Foundation (NSF) Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award. The award, which begins March 1 and continues through February 2020, is for a project titled “Short-Wavelength Vertical-Cavity Surface-Emitting Laser Arrays Using Nonpolar and Semipolar GaN.”

UNM CS Professor Receives Prestigious NSF CAREER Award

Trilce Estrada, PhD 2012, has a NSF Career grant for her project Enabling Distributed and In-Situ Analysis for Multidimensional Structured Data. The project will be done at the University of New Mexico where Trilce is now Assistant Professor of Computer Science. Her PhD thesis, On the Effectiveness of Application-Aware Self-Management for Scientific Discovery in Volunteer Computing Systems, was done under the supervision of Prof. Michela Taufer.

Schmandt Receives Young Scientist Award from Geological Society of America

Brandon Schmandt, an assistant professor in the University of New Mexico’s Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, earned the Young Scientist Award (Donath Medal) for Outstanding Achievement presented by The Geological Society of America (GSA). He was nominated by Professor Karl Karlstrom, a colleague in the UNM Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences.

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