R&D Week 2025 Program

Research & Discovery week

Research Discovery week HOST

OFFICE OF THE VICE PRESIDENT FOR RESEARCH

ABOUT RESEARCH & DISCOVERY WEEK The University of New Mexico's 2025 Research & Discovery Week features 50+ events that showcase the excellence and diversity of UNM's research enterprise, fosters the principles of ethical, engaged, collaborative, and fulfilling scholarship, all while promoting resources and opportunities available to all Lobo researchers. Most importantly, these events serve as a pivotal platform to showcase the exceptional contributions of our faculty, staff, and students towards enriching the intellectual capital of our institution and enable our collective ability to positively impact our communities, state, nation, and the world.

R&D WEEK PLANNING COMMITTEE CHAIR

MELISSA EMERY THOMPSON, PH.D. PLANNING COMMITTEE

DANIEL BRENDEN JANE DELAUBENFELS MARISSA LUCERO RAEANN MCKERNAN KARA MCKINNEY LARISSA MYASKOVSKY HANNAH TORRES GREG TREJO HANNAH YOHALEM COVER ART

ARTIST: KAITLIN BRYSON EXHIBIT TITLE: WE PERFORM GRIEVING AS MUTINY AGAINST ESTABLISHED PATTERNS, 2024.

SIX PHOTOGRAPHS OF QUILTS EMBEDDED IN NOPALES BIOPLASTIC, ROPE LIGHTS

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COMMUNITY-ENGAGED RESEARCH LECTURE: NACIÓN GENÍZARA, ETHNOGENESIS, PLACE, AND IDENTITY IN NEW MEXICO

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Moises Gonzales, UNM Professor of Urban Design The Annual Community-Engaged Research Lectureship Award recognizes exceptional scholarly work that embodies UNM's commitment to community

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engagement and profoundly and systematically affects the relationship between the university and the larger community in a positive and meaningful way. The 2025 honoree is Moises Gonzales.

Moises Gonzales is a professor of Urban Design and the chair of the Community and Regional Planning Program within the School of Architecture and Planning at UNM.

FROM DATA TO MIND: HOW TECHNOLOGY IS RESHAPING OUR MINDS AND PERFORMANCE Poppy Crum, Ph.D. Crum is a neuroscientist, technologist, investor, and futurist known for her work at the intersection of human experience, sensory systems, and technology innovation.

With a doctorate in Neuroscience and Computational Psychology from UC Berkeley, Crum is managing director of Giant Step Capital, adjunct professor at Stanford University, the former chief scientist at Dolby Laboratories, and CTO of Trimble. Crum is an expert in developing and understanding AI and advanced technology systems and their opportunity and impact on human experience and performance. She holds more than 37 patents in augmented sensory systems, personalized technologies, and immersive sensory experiences.

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He also serves as the director of the Resource Center for Raza Planning, which is a community outreach center within the UNM School of Architecture and Planning, whose mission is to provide technical assistance in the areas of community development, design, and natural resource planning for traditional communities

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throughout New Mexico.

In the classroom, Gonzales focuses on physical planning and urban design as well as historic preservation of the Southwest. He is co-editor of the book, Nación Genízara, Ethnogenesis, Place, and Identity in New Mexico, and co-author of the book, Slavery in the Southwest Genizaro Identity, Dignity and the Law.

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DNA MISMATCH REPAIR IN HUMAN CELLS: MECHANISMS AND SOME FUNCTIONS Paul Modrich, Ph.D., Nobel Laureate Modrich is this year's recipient of the 2025 Riley Schaeffer Endowed Lectureship. He grew up in Raton, New Mexico and is currently James B. Duke Professor Emeritus at Duke University.

Modrich is the recipient of several awards including the Pfizer Award in Enzyme Chemistry, the General Motors Mott Prize in Cancer Research, the American Cancer Society Medal of Honor, and the 2015 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, which he shared with Tomas Lindahl and Aziz Sancar. The primary focus of Modrich’s research program has been the mechanisms and functions of strand-directed DNA mismatch repair. This pathway corrects base-pairing errors in the DNA helix and is well known for stabilizing the genome via rectification of errors that occur during chromosome replication.

Reception before the lecture at 3 PM.

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K YO NV OAT TEISO N S I N H E A L T H & W E L L B E I N G I NE N 6 PM 1 PM

11.12 11.5 George Hall ZoomPearl Webinar Auditorium

CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES FOR COMMUNITY-ENGAGED RESEARCH LECTURE: COMMUNITY-ENGAGED RESEARCH USING NACIÓN GENÍZARA, ETHNOGENESIS, PLACE, THE PIVOT PROJECT AND IDENTITY IN NEW MEXICO

This special session of the Research & Innovation webinar series will introduce

Moises Gonzales, UNM Professor of Urban Design the Promoting Innovative and Vital Opportunities for Transformation (PIVOT) project, a community-engaged research partnership that includes the First The Annual Community-Engaged Research Lectureship

Judicial District Attorney's Office, Moving Arts Española, Santa Fe County Uplift

Award recognizes exceptional scholarly work that Youth, and other community partners. PIVOT is a prosecutor-led

embodies UNM's commitment to community community-based diversion and deflection program for youth and young adults. engagement and profoundly and systematically affects the relationship between the university and the larger

ANNUAL RESEARCH LECTURE: THE SECRET REVEALED: HOW TO SAVE YOUR LIFE

community in a positive and meaningful way. The 2025 honoree is Moises Gonzales.

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Dr. David Schade

Moises is a professor Urban Design and the1954 and The UNMGonzales Annual Research Lecture hasof been presented at UNM since is oneof of the honors the University bestows on its faculty members in chair thehighest Community and Regional Planning Program recognition of research and creative activity. within the School of Architecture and Planning at UNM.

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School of Medicine, will present on his achievements in the prevention of He also serves as the director of the Resource Center for diabetes and cardiovascular disease.

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whose mission is to provide technical assistance in the

INFORMATICS AI METHODS SYMPOSIUM areas of community & development, design, and natural Join us forplanning a dynamic for symposium featuring hands-on sessions in R resource traditional communities

programming and AI, synthetic data creation, and using real-world datasets

throughout New Mexico.

for biomedical research. Learn new computational methods and how AI and

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open data resources can accelerate your research.

In the classroom, Gonzales focuses on physical planning

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and urban design as well as historic preservation of the Southwest. He is co-editor of the book, Nación Genízara,

ANNUAL CASAA RESEARCH DAY: SCIENCE THAT CONNECTS

Ethnogenesis, Place, and Identity in New Mexico, and 9 AM

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co-author of the book, Slavery in the Southwest Genizaro At the Center on Alcohol, Substance use, And Addictions (CASAA) our first

Identity, Dignity and the Law.

priority is to reduce suffering and social costs caused by substance use and

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other addictive behaviors, while improving quality of life. The purpose of CASAA Research Day is to engage with the university and local community

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in discussions about addiction and addictive behaviors. This year’s event focuses on bridging the gap between scientific inquiry and applied practice.

and New Mexico’s bioscience sector that is boosting the healthcare and

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Raza Planning, which is a community outreach center

8:30 AM

The BioVenture Poppy Crum,showcases Ph.D. biotechnology research and innovation from UNM

Crum is a neuroscientist, technologist, investor, and economic landscape for New Mexico. Participation is open to all, from academic futurist for her Includes work at the intersection researchknown to private sector. lightning talks, posters,of andhuman a pitch Ballroom B Student Union competition. experience, sensory systems, and technology innovation.

SUB Level 2 Building With a doctorate in Neuroscience and Computational Ballroom B Psychology from UC Berkeley, Crum is managing director of Giant Step Capital, adjunct professor at Stanford University, the former chief scientist at Dolby Laboratories, HOMEOSTASIS OF COMPLEX SYSTEMS and CTO of Trimble. Crum is an expert in developing and 12 PM All dynamic systems tend to reach a steady state. In biology we refer to this understanding AI and advanced technology systems and state of balance as homeostasis. However, the concept of homeostatic their opportunity and impact on human experience and regulation can be applied to nearly all complex systems that resist outside performance. holds morewe than in forces of change.She In this symposium, will 37 hearpatents about different complex augmented personalized technologies, systems being sensory studied at systems, UNM, ranging from water ecosystems to virus-host Domenici North Wing interactions, and the controllers that maintain them in homeostasis. and immersive sensory experiences.

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Dr. Schade, chief of Endocrinology and distinguished professor within UNM’s

within the UNM School of Architecture and Planning,

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Clinical & Translational Sciences Center

ADVANCING RNA BIOLOGY IN THE UNM COMMUNITY DNA MISMATCH REPAIR IN HUMAN CELLS:

We are excited to announce first RNAFUNCTIONS biology symposium at UNM Health MECHANISMS ANDtheSOME Sciences Center, a milestone event designed to bring together researchers

Paul Ph.D., Nobel Laureate acrossModrich, UNM to explore the rapidly evolving landscape of RNA science. This symposium will feature talks from UNM faculty actively engaged in RNA Modrich is this year's recipient of the 2025 Riley Schaeffer biology, who will share their latest research on topics ranging from epigenetic Endowed Lectureship. He grew up in Raton, New Mexico and is regulation, genome organization, mechanobiology, and biomarker discovery to currently B. Duke Professor Emeritus at Duke University.

RNA-basedJames therapeutics and spatial transcriptomics.

Modrich is the recipient of several awards including the Pfizer Award in Enzyme Chemistry, the General Motors Mott Prize in Cancer Research, the American Cancer Society Medal of HEALTH SCIENCES CORES which OPEN Honor, and the 2015 NobelCENTER Prize in Chemistry, heHOUSE shared with Tomas Lindahl and Aziz Sancar.

The primary focus of Join us to learn about the many core facilities and resources available for research at research UNM Healthprogram Sciences. Participating centers include the Southwest Modrich’s has been the mechanisms and Center for Advancing Clinical and Translational Innovation; UNM This functions of strand-directed DNA mismatch repair.

Comprehensive Cancer Center; Interdisciplinary Substance Use And Brain pathway corrects base-pairing errors in the DNA helix and is Injury; Center for Brain Recovery and Repair; Autophagy, Inflammation & well known for stabilizing the genome via rectification of Metabolism Center; and Center for Metals in Biology & Medicine. errors that occur during chromosome replication.

Reception before the lecture at 3 PM.

RESEARCH DAYS

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WORKSHOPS

FEATURED EVENTS

HOW TO (AND HOW NOT TO) USE AI IN THE CLASSROOM IRB PROTOCOL WRITING INDIVIDUAL DEVELOPMENT PLANS: ROADMAPS TO SUCCESS NAVIGATING FELLOWSHIPS & HONORIFIC AWARDS IN THE HUMANITIES, SOCIAL SCIENCES, AND ARTS

UNM RESEARCH ADVANCES NEW MEXICO 9 AM - 12 PM

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An expo highlighting innovative discoveries and the ways UNM research creates positive impacts on the people and places of New Mexico. Themes include community engagement, public policy, workforce and economic development, heritage preservation, environment and sustainability, and health care.

PRACTICAL AI: TOOLS YOU CAN USE EUROPEAN RESEARCH CONTACTS AND FUNDING EXPANDING THE IMPACT OF BASIC NEEDS RESEARCH FOR STAFF AND FACULTY

RESEARCH PANELS & SYMPOSIA WEATHERING, FRAILTY, AND ADVANCED BIOLOGICAL AGE BRIDGING THE ARTS & SCIENCES DIVIDE: TRANSFORMATIONAL RESEARCH

HANDS ON MY RESEARCH

10 AM - 2 PM SUB Atrium

Fun, interactive demonstrations of UNM research and outreach programs in engineering, neuroscience, water resources, transportation safety, substance use prevention, and the arts.

RESEARCH SHOWCASES

ADVANCING PUBLIC HEALTH THROUGH AI

1 PM - 3:15 PM

AI ADVANCING RESEARCH AT UNM

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IT TAKES THE WHOLE PACK: INNOVATING STUDENT WELL-BEING AT UNM

DIRECTED ENERGY CENTER @ UNM

A MEANS TO MORE MEANS: REIMAGINING MASTER’S RESEARCH PROJECTS AS A SUSTAINABLE LIVING INQUIRY

ECONOMIC RESEARCH FOR A BETTER NEW MEXICO

THE FUTURE IS OPEN: COLLABORATING ACROSS DEPARTMENTS AND INSTITUTIONS WITH OPEN EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES

PREVENTING CHILD MALTREATMENT ARID RESEARCH SYMPOSIUM

STUDENT CAREER OPPORTUNITIES

RESEARCH INNOVATIONS FOR EDUCATION

UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH OPPORTUNITIES FAIR

SUSTAINABLE SPACE RESEARCH GRAND CHALLENGE SYMPOSIUM

BIOSCIENCE ENTREPRENEURIAL EXPERIENCE (BEE) INTERNSHIP FAIR LOBOBITES 3 MINUTE THESIS COMPETITION GRAND FINALS AND RECEPTION

For up-to-date information and session times, visit research.unm.edu/researchanddiscovery

TRANSDISCIP ARTS & RESEARCH DAYS LINARY CULTURE

C LEA BRA TT S T H TE R SAUNBS D I S C I P L I N A R Y RES CT HI N DG A YAS R A RESEARCH & C U LT U R E AT U N M 11.13

UNM SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: MUSIC FOR THEIRWORKSHOPS COUNTRIES

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Conducted by UNM Assistant Professor Karin Hendrickson. Repertoire includes Finlandia, Copland’s Lincoln Dvořák’s Symphony No. 7.

HOW Sibeius’s TO (AND HOW NOT TO) USE AIPortrait, IN THEand CLASSROOM

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Tickets required.

IRB PROTOCOL WRITING

CREATIVE CONVERGENCE: STORIES FROM INDIVIDUAL DEVELOPMENT PLANS: ROADMAPS TO SUCCESS THE INTERSECTION OF ART, SCIENCE,

11 AM NAVIGATING FELLOWSHIPS & HONORIFIC AWARDS IN THE HUMANITIES, SOCIAL AND TECHNOLOGY SCIENCES, AND ARTS

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This roundtable brings together four researchers whose work sits at the

EUROPEAN CONTACTSpartnerships AND FUNDING how to build RESEARCH effective interdisciplinary and more.

Open House at 12 PM. EXPANDING THE Followed IMPACT by OFanBASIC NEEDS RESEARCH FOR STAFF AND FACULTY

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THE BODY AS ARCHIVE: GUIDED EXHIBIT RESEARCH PANELS & SYMPOSIA AND DISCUSSION

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This session highlights the tangible dance and history sources embedded in the visual documentation on display in the Elizabeth Waters Center for Dance.

BRIDGING THEThese ARTSvisual & SCIENCES TRANSFORMATIONAL documentsDIVIDE: of creative practices reflect diverse RESEARCH systems of

Elizabeth Waters Center for Dance

BRIDGING KNOWLEDGE SYSTEMS: THE FEATURED EVENTS TRANSFORMATION NETWORK’S 10 AM CONVERGENT APPROACH UNM RESEARCH NEW MEXICO The challengesADVANCES facing the Intermountain West are characterized by

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extreme 9 AM - 12 PM complexity and enormous consequences. This workshop

shares Transformation Network's approach to these challenges that SUB Grand Ballroom

PAIS builds across different knowledge within academia An expo highlighting innovative discoveries and thesystems ways UNM research creates and RM 1010 community partners. positive impacts on the people and places of New Mexico. Themes include community engagement, public policy, workforce and economic development, heritage preservation, environment and sustainability, and health care.

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intersection of art, science, and technology, opening up discussion to explore UNM ARTSLab

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HANDSLIBRARY ON MY RESEARCH SCHOLARSHIP DAY

10 AM - 2 PM

Get to know your library colleagues through their scholarship.

University Libraries, the Health Sciences Library & Informatics Fun, interactive demonstrations of UNM research and outreach programs in Center, and the UNM Law Library will showcase research works engineering, neuroscience, water resources, transportation safety, substance use prevention, contributed and the arts. by our faculty and staff with our campus community.

Drop in at any time during the celebration for research HSLIC presentations, lightning talks, and poster sessions.

9 AM-1 SUB PM Atrium

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RESEARCH SHOWCASES

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knowledge and demonstrate how UNM and southwest dance exist as sites of

1 PM - 3:15 PM

ADVANCING PUBLIC HEALTH THROUGH AI

artistic, social-cultural and political developments and influences in recent

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RESEARCH AT UNM history AI andADVANCING the current moment.

BRIDGING THE ARTS & SCIENCES DIVIDE: DIRECTED ENERGY CENTER @ UNM TRANSFORMATIONAL RESEARCH

IT TAKES THE WHOLE PACK: INNOVATING STUDENT WELL-BEING AT UNM

MULTILINGUALISM MATTERS

A MEANS 2 PM TO MORE MEANS: REIMAGINING MASTER’S RESEARCH PROJECTS AS A LIVING INQUIRY The GrandSUSTAINABLE Challenges "Multilingualism Matters" team brings together scholars

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whose work advances our understanding of linguistic diversity and language

THE FUTURE IS OPEN: COLLABORATING ACROSS DEPARTMENTS AND INSTITUTIONS WITH development focusing on multilingual children.

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Followed by the Festival of Languages at 3 PM.

STUDENT CAREER OPPORTUNITIES UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH OPPORTUNITIES FAIR

OPERA SCENES

BIOSCIENCE ENTREPRENEURIAL EXPERIENCE (BEE) INTERNSHIP FAIR 11.14

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ECONOMIC RESEARCH A BETTER NEW MEXICO The Diversity, Equity, FOR Accessibility, and Inclusivity Committee at the

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College of Arts & Sciences (DEAI at A&S) will host a series of PREVENTING CHILD MALTREATMENT panels that celebrate the expertise of faculty, staff, and students in A&S. Our aim is to highlight transformational research that serves ARID RESEARCH SYMPOSIUM the rich and varied cultures of New Mexico and contributes to the success of our local and global communities. We highlight research RESEARCH INNOVATIONS FOR EDUCATION that engages critical thinking and transformational change.

SUSTAINABLE SPACE RESEARCH GRAND CHALLENGE SYMPOSIUM

UNM Prfoessor Jaime Flora directs the UNM Opera Theatre in scenes from classical and modern opera, operetta, and musical theatre.

LOBOBITES 3 MINUTE THESIS COMPETITION GRAND FINALS AND RECEPTION

CR EATIV ITY Tickets required.

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IN SP IRAT ION

For up-to-date information and session times, visit research.unm.edu/researchanddiscovery

BY THE NUMBERS

UNM RESEARCH BY THE NUMBERS EXPENDITURES IN FY25

THANK YOU

AWARDS RECEIVED IN FY25

We want to thank staff with the UNM Office of the Vice President for Research, our partner organizations, and sponsors for your invaluable contributions. Without you, this week of events would not be possible.

$389M+ 1,590

PUBLICATIONS IN 2024

3,500+

START-UP COMPANIES FOUNDED IN FY21-25

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STUDENT RESEARCHERS SUPPORTED IN FY25

1,626

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