Departmental News

Posted:  Oct 05, 2016 - 12:00am

Congratulations to Dr. Mala Htun and her Advance at UNM team! This interdisciplinary team of University of New Mexico faculty recently secured a five-year, $3.3 million grant from the National Science Foundation through the NSF Advance program for institutional transformation. The program’s goals are to foster the success of women and minority STEM faculty.

Mala Htun, Political Science, and Julia Fulghum, Chemistry and Chemical Biology, will lead this effort. The project’s co-principal investigators are Mary Jo Daniel with the Office of the Vice President for Research, Stephanie Forrest, Computer Science, and Felipe Gonzales, Sociology.

Read the full article here: http://news.unm.edu/news/unm-awarded-major-nsf-stem-grant