News from the Chair

Darcy Barron selected for the 2019 Women in STEM awards

Darcy Barron was awarded $10K for a Women in STEM award from Advance at UNM to implement an initiative to improve retention rates in our undergrad degree programs.

Advance is a five-year National Science Foundation grant to recruit, retain and promote women and minority STEM faculty, Now in their fourth year, the WIS awards so far have totaled more than $215,000.

See the UNM Newsroom article and the Advance article. There's also a video from Advance about Dr. Barron's research.

Congratulations, Dr. Barron!

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