University Research Council

The University Research Council (URC) seeks to nurture, promote, and recognize the research and creative scholarly accomplishments of NMSU faculty, staff and students. As part of this effort, URC will present awards to NMSU faculty and staff in recognition of exceptional research and/or other creative scholarly efforts produced at NMSU. Application evaluation criteria is:

  1. Outstanding original research achievements as evidenced by the significance of the research in advancing knowledge in the field of study; publications in peer-reviewed, refereed journals; peer-citations of published work; success in attracting outside funding as principal investigator; nature of outside funding (i.e., prestige and level of national competition for the awards); scholarly books; chapters in scholarly books; monographs.
  2. Outstanding creative achievements such as performances, design portfolios, books, exhibits, artwork, installations, textbooks, curricula, electronic media or other achievements that obtained significant recognition from colleagues at and outside NMSU.
  3. Outstanding technical achievements evidenced by external awards for creative scholarly activities, patents, invited talks/performances, conference presentations, consulting activity, etc.

 

Recipients of the University Research Council Awards

2023 Recipients

Early Career Award

  • Eric Magrane, Geography and Environmental Studies
  • Dennis Nicuh Lozada, Plant and Environmental Studies

Distinguished Career Award

  • Manoj K. Shukla, Plant and Environmental Sciences
  • Rebecca Palacios, Public Health Sciences

Research Recognition Award

  • Jose L. Ortega-Carranza, Plant and Environmental Sciences

Team Research Award

  • Pei Xu, Civil Engineering
  • Yanyan Zhang, Civil Engineering
  • Huiyao Wang, Civil Engineering
  • Robert B. Young, Research Cores Program

2022 Recipients

Early Career Award

  • Marshall Taylor, Sociology

Distinguished Career Award

  • Abdessattar Abdelkefi, mechanical Engineering
  • Stephen Ford Pate-Morales, Physics

Team Research Award

  • Bree Lamb, Art
  • Joshua Clark, Art

2021 Recipients

Early Career Award

  • Ehsan Dehghan-Niri, Civil Engineering

Distinguished Career Award

  • Jessica Houston, Chemical and Materials Engineering
  • Elba Serrano, Biology

Research Recognition Award

  • Raena Cota, Computer Science

Team Research Award

  • Keith Mandabach, Hotel, Restaurant and Tourism Management
  • Dawn VanLeeuwen, Economics and International Business
  • Mitch Fowler, Creative Media
  • Ross Marks, Creative Media

2020 Recipients

Early Career Award

  • Akasha Faist, Animal Sciences

Distinguished Career Award

  • Igor Sevostianov, Mechanical Engineering and Director of RISE

Research Recognition Award

  • Punam Thakur, Carlsbad Monitoring & Research Center

Team Research Award

  • Catherine Jonet & Laura Anh Williams, Gender & Sexuality Studies

2019 Recipients

Early Career Award

  • Abdessattar Abdelkefi, Mechanical Engineering
  • Nicole Pietrasiak, Plant and Environmental Sciences

Distinguished Career Award

  • Barbara Chamberlin, Innovative Media Research and Extension
  • William Gould, College of Business

Research Recognition

  • Mark Klaene, Astronomy

2018 Recipients

  • Motoko Furuhashi, Department of Art
  • Patricia Hynes, New Mexico Space Grant Consortium
  • David G.M. Mitchell, Klipsch School of Electrical and Computer Engineering

2017 Recipients

  • Salim Bawazir, Nirmala Khandan and Pei Xu, NSF Engineering Research Center for Reinventing the Nation’s Urban Water Infrastructure
  • Catherine E. Brewer, Chemical and Materials Engineering
  • Kenneth C. Carroll, Plant and Environmental Sciences
  • Tim Wright

2016 Recipients

  • Reza Foudazi, Chemical and Materials Engineering
  • Michael Hout, Psychology
  • Tom Manz, Chemical and Materials Engineering
  • James McAteer, Astronomy
  • Hongmei Luo, Chemical and Materials Engineering
  • Karin Wiburg, Curriculum and Instruction

2015 Recipients

No awards were given.

2014 Recipients

Early Career Award

  • Lily Hoang, Department of English
  • Jessica Perea Houston, Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering
  • Michelle Salazar Pérez, Department of Curriculum and Instruction

Distinguished Career Award

  • Michael R. Hyman, Department of Marketing
  • Steve Stochaj, Klipsch School of Electrical and Computer Engineering

2013 Recipients

Early Career Award

  • Wenxin Liu, Klipsch School of Electrical & Computer Engineering
  • Pierre Wilbert Orelus, Department of Curriculum & Instruction

Distinguished Career Award

  • Tiziana Giorgi, Department of Mathematical Sciences
  • Bernd Leinauer, Department of Extension Plant Sciences

2012 Recipients

Early Career Award

  • Cathy Kinzer, Curriculum & Instruction
  • Hongmei Luo, Chemical Engineering
  • Stephen Rice, Psychology
  • Carmen Giménez Smith, English

2011 Recipients

Early Career Team Award

  • Wesley Eaton & Ryan Herbon, Manufacturing Technology & Engineering Center

Early Career Award

  • Satyajayant Misra, Computer Science

Distinguished Career Award

  • Shuguang Deng, Chemical Engineering
  • Kathryn A. Hanley, Biology

2010 Recipients

Early Career Award

  • Collin Payne, Department of Marketing

Distinguished Career Award

  • Dennis Hallford, Department of Animal & Range Sciences
  • David Voelz, Klipsch School of Electrical & Computer Engineering

2009 Recipients

Early Career Award

  • Eric Butcher, Department of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering
  • Jeremy Smith, Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry
  • Meghan Starbuck, Department of Economics & International Business

Distinguished Career Award

  • Katherine Giles, Department of Geological Sciences

2008 Recipients

Early Career Award

  • Jason Ackelson, Department of Government
  • Elizabeth Horodowich, Department of History

Distinguished Career Award

  • Jesus J. Barquet, Department of Languages & Linguistics
  • David M. Boje, Department of Management
  • Harriet Kramer Linkin, Department of English

2007 Recipients

Early Career Award

  • Barbara Chamberlin, University Communications & Marketing Service
  • Shuguang Deng, Department of Chemical Engineering

Distinguished Career Award

  • William Eamon, Honors College
  • Desh Ranjan, Department of Computer Science

2006 Recipients

Early Career Award

  • Christopher Brown, Department of Geography
  • Igor Sevostianov, Department of Mechanical Engineering

Distinguished Career Award

  • Jeffrey B. Arterburn, Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry
  • Kirk McDaniel, Department of Animal & Range Science

2005 Recipients

Early Career Award

  • Haobin Wang, Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry
  • Debra Knapp, Department of Physical Education, Recreation & Dance

Distinguished Career Award

  • Vincent Gutschick, Department of Biology
  • Stephen Horan, Klipsch School of Electrical & Computer Engineering
  • Enrico Pontelli, Department of Computer Science

2004 Recipients

Early Career Award

  • Jeff Amato, Department of Geological Sciences
  • Son Cao Tran, Department of Computer Science

Distinguished Career Award

  • Gary Eiceman, Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry
  • Zohrab Samani, Department of Civil & Geological Engineering

2003 Recipients

Early Career Award

  • David Juaregui, Department of Civil & Geological Engineering
  • Heinz Nakotte, Department of Physics

Distinguished Career Award

  • Jeanne Gleason, Department of Agricultural Communications
  • James Herndon, Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry

2002 Recipients

  • Nirmala Khandan, Civil & Geological Engineering
  • Greg Mack, Geological Sciences
  • Jesus Barquet, Spanish
  • Sergei Smirnov, Chemistry & Biochemistry
  • Paul Bosland, Agronomy & Horticulture
  • Anatoly Klypin, Astronomy
  • Jaime Ramirez–Angulo, Klipsch School of Electrical & Computer Engineering
  • Alberto Rodriguez, Curriculum & Instruction