Category: NM STEM

Presenters: Jeewon Choi, PhD Candidate, Mechanical Engineering, University of New Mexico (Research Goal 1), Jacob Marks, Masters Student, Computer Science, New Mexico Tech (Research Goal 2), Adnan Bashir, PhD Candidate, Computer Science, University of New Mexico (Research Goal 3), Shubhasmita Pati, PhD Candidate, Electrical & Computer Engineering, New Mexico State University (Research Goal 4)

Learn about writing a successful grant and the cool discoveries being made in artificial intelligence! Thursday's focus is NSF grant writing: Program Survey and Discussion (lead by an NSF IIS Program Director) – bring your questions! Proposal Tactics: Unofficial Symposium (lead by an NSF IIS Program Director) PAPPG updates and changes for submissions (Research.gov) – learn what these changes mean for you! Friday's focus is AI research: This is a two-day event; feel free to come and go or stay for the whole thing.

POSTPONED until further notice Please join us on Tuesday, April 28, 2020at Santa Fe Community College for an all-day workshop on emerging workforce training opportunities in Distributed Energy Systems. SFCC’s Smart and Microgrid Training Center has established a program and hired a full-time faculty member to develop curricula, degrees, and certifications in this critical aspect of grid modernization.

The NM EPSCoR (Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research) SMART Grid Center seeks applications for Collaborative Innovation Working Groups (C-IWGs). These awards primarily support groups of researchers (faculty, post-docs, and students), educators, and/or nationally recognized experts that seek to promote research innovation and integration in the area of smart grids, microgrids, cybersecurity, and cutting-edge research applications for advancing the country’s electricity production and delivery system.

The Infrastructure Seed Award program is designed to support transformative research and capacity building across New Mexico’s academic institutions in emerging smart grid areas (e.g., computer science, electrical and computer engineering, cyberinfrastructure, and workforce development). The awards can be used to purchase research and teaching equipment and to pay for student researcher salaries, research supplies, and student conference travel.

Presenters: Diana Dugas, CyberInfrastructure Architect, NMSU Karl Benedict, Director of Research Data Services/ Director of IT, UNM

The UNM STEM Research Symposium is a free, student-led collaborative effort between UNM's graduate student associations. The annual event provides graduate students in STEM fields a platform to present their research findings to the general public.

Data Carpentry develops and teaches workshops on the fundamental data skills needed to conduct research. Its target audience is researchers who have little to no prior computational experience, and its lessons are domain specific, building on learners' existing knowledge to enable them to quickly apply skills learned to their own research. Participants will be encouraged to help one another and to apply what they have learned to their own research problems.

The STEM Advancement Program (STEMAP) engages students from New Mexico’s regional universities, community colleges, and tribal colleges in the research funded by the New Mexico SMART Grid Center at UNM, NMSU, and NMT. Up to 12 students are selected to participate each summer.

Come learn how they achieved this status as NMSU and DACC strive to join this elite group. The keynote will be followed by a workshop for educators guiding us in how we can help this initiative in the classes we teach and with the students we advise.