2023 Nominations Closed
The Annual Research Lecture has been presented at UNM since 1954 and is one of the highest honors the University bestows on its faculty member in recognition of research/creative activity. The nominated faculty member must be an active, full-time Professor or exceptional Associate Professor at the time the nomination is submitted with a record similar to that of applicants for Distinguished Professor (see the List of Honor below for past winners).
The research or creative works of the nominee must be of the highest quality with an outstanding cumulative record of achievement nationally and internationally (unless another domain is more relevant). The nominee will also be evaluated on the body of work that has been completed while at UNM, including mentoring. This often requires ten or more years at UNM to be competitive.
For Questions about this Award please contact:
Tito Busani
Chair, Research Policy Committee
busanit@unm.edu
Gena Garcia
Administrative Coordinator
Ofc of the University Secretary
emajsmom@unm.edu
68th Annual Research Lecture
List of Honor: Past Annual Research Lecturers
2023 |
Professor Felisa A. Smith | UNM Distinguished Professor, Department of Biology | Mammalian Paleoecology: Using the Past to Study the Present |
2022 |
Professor Vojo Deretic | UNM Distinguished Professor, Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology Chair Autophagy, Inflammation and Metabolism Center Director | Autophagy: The Double Membrane in Immunity & Beyond |
2020 |
Professor Kerry Howe | Civil Engineering, Chemical and Biological Engineering,Director: Center of Water and Environment | Providing Safe, Clean Drinking Water in America: Prospects for Recycling Wastewater |
2019 |
Professor Scott Collins | Distinguished Professor: Biology | Grasslands As Model Ecosystems |
2018 |
Professor Barbara McCrady | Distinguished Professor: Center on Alcoholism, Substance Abuse and Addiction (CASAA) | 'Til Death Do Us Part: A Lifetime of Research To Better Understand And Treat Alcohol Use Disorders In The Family. |
2017 |
Professor Vince Calhoun | Chief Technology Officer: The Mind Research Network Distinguished Professor: Electrical Computer Engineering Professor: Computer Science | Discovering Patterns of Promise For Unravelling The Mystery of The Human Brain In Health And Disease |
2016 |
Professor Lawrence Guy Straus, Leslie Spier Distinguished Professor of Anthropology. | Anthropology | Life and Death during the last Ice Age: Paleolithic Human Adaptations in El Miron Cantalan in Spain and Beyond |
2015 |
Professor Karl Karlstrom | Earth and Planetary Sciences | Its About Time: Forty Years of Geologic Work in the Grand-Canyon Rocky Mountain Region. |
2014 |
Professor Ivan Deutsch | Physics & Astronomy | Breaking Heisenberg: Controlling the Quantum World |
2013 |
Professor Scott Burchiel | Pharmacology & Toxicology | ToxicoGenomics Bases for Human Susceptibility to Environmental Injury and Disease |
2012 |
Professor Stephanie Forrest | Computer Science | Biological Models for Software Security |
2011 |
Professor Philip A. May | Sociology, Family & Community Medicine, & Center on Alcoholism, Substance Abuse & Addiction (CASAA) | Adventures in Public Health Research: For Decades of Shoe-Leather Epidemiology and Prevention |
2010 |
Professor Christopher Shultis | Music | The Dialects of Experimentalism |
2009 |
Professor Ferenc Szasz | History | Abraham Lincoln and Robert Burns: Connected Lives and Legends |
2008 |
Professor Larry Sklar | Pathology & Pharmacy | Team Science: Partnerships for Innovation, Discovery and Translation |
2007 |
Professor Clifford Dahm | Biology | Reflections Upon the Science of Water in the New Mexico Year of Water |
2006 |
Professor Jean-Claude Diels | Physics & Astronomy, Electrical & Computer Engineering | Laser Light: Sensing Nano Changes with the Lightest Touch and Creating Power Threads in the Light Tunnels - A Promethius' Journey |
2005 |
Professor V.M. (Nitant) Kenkre | Physics & Astronomy | Movers and Shakers in Physics and Biology |
2004 |
Professor Joan Bybee | Linguistics | Say it Again: How Usage Shapes Language |
2003 |
Professor Jane E. Buiksta | Anthropology | Dialogue with the Dead: Mummies, Monuments, and Mallquis |
2002 |
Professor Everet E. Rogers | Communication & Journalism | Applications of the Diffusion Model: Spread and Consequences of the Internet |
2001 |
Professor Mohamed S. El-Genk | Chemical & Nuclear Engineering | Space Exploration: A Journey into the Future |
2000 |
Professor Linda Biesele Hall | History | The Virgin Mary, Coatlicue, and Pachamama: Thoughts on the Sacred Feminine in Latin America |
Past Honors
1999 |
Professor James Brown | Biology | The Scale of Life: Of All Creatures Great and Small |
1998 |
Professor Vera John-Steiner | Language, Literacy & Socio-cultural Studies | Creativity and Collaboration: A Socio-cultural Approach |
1997 |
Professor Louise Lampere | Anthropology | From Mill Town to Multinational: Gender, Family and Policy in Working Class Communities |
1996 |
Professor Kathryn G. Vogel | Biology | The Extracellular Matrix of Connective Tissue: Studying the Sticky Stuff |
1995 |
Professor Robert T. Paine | Chemistry | Exercises in Molecular Assembly: Some Designs and Accidents |
1994 |
Professor Albert E. Utton, Director | U.S.-Mexico Transboundary Resource Center | Water in the Arid Southwest: An International Region Under Stress |
1993 |
Professor Roger Y. Anderson | Earth & Planetary Sciences | Climates of the Future: A Retrospective |
1992 |
Professor William R. Miller | Psychology & Psychiatry | The Value of Being Wrong: Two Decades of Unexpected Findings in Treating Alcohol Problemst |
1991 |
Professor Richard W. Etulain | History | Reimagining the American West: Toward a Postregional Culture |
1990 |
Professor Jonathan M. Samet, M.D | School of Medicine | The Hazards of Breathing: Cigarette Smoking, Radon, and Public Policy |
1989 |
Professor Rudolfo A. Anaya | English | Aztlan: A Homeland Without Boundaries |
1988 |
Professor Ellen H. Goldberg | Microbiology | Genetic Basis of Sexual Expression |
1987 |
Professor Marlan O. Scully | Physics & the Center for Advanced Studies | From Laser Physics to the Life Sciences: The Ramblings of a Quantum Cowboy |
1986 |
Professor Randy Thornhil | Biology | Sexual Selection: The Nature of the Traits it Favors and What Controls its Operationf |
1985 |
Professor Howard C. Bryan | Physics & Astronomy | A Physicist’s Journal: From the Glory to the Two-Electron Ion |
1984 |
Professor Lewis R. Binford | Anthropology | Acting Director of the Maxwell Museum of Anthropology, “Changing Views of the Human Past” |
1983 |
Professor Beaumont Newhall | Art History and Photography | The Unreality of Photography |
1982 |
Professor Hamlin Hil | English and American Studies | Huckleberry Finn’s Humor Today |
1981 |
Professor Klaus Keil | Klaus Keil Geology and the Institute of Meteoritics | Meteorites: The Asteroid Connection |
1980 |
Professor Raymond R. McCurdy | Modern and Classical Languages | Don Francisco de Rojas Zorrilla, Seventeenth Century Spanish Dramatist and Feminist |
1979 |
Professor Martin R. Philip Eaton, M.D | Medicine | Problems in Human Biology: The Necessity for Collaborative Research |
1978 |
Professor Henry C. Ellis | Psychology | Strategies and Flexibility in Human Memor |
1977 |
Professor Martin C. Needler | Political Science & Sociology | The Logic of Conspiracy: The Latin American Military Coup as a Problem in the Social Sciences |
1976 |
Professor Garo Z. Antreasian | Art History and Photography | Some Aspects of Process and History in My Work |
1976 |
Professor Clinton Adams | Art History and Photography | Mind, Eye, Hand and Stone"*split lectureship |
1975 |
Professor Ralph C. Williams Jr. | Medicine | Suppressor T-cells: Their Possible Relationship to Autoimmunity and Cancer |
1974 |
Professor Frank A. Logan | Psychology | Learning Theory and Higher Education |
1973 |
Professor Hugh M. Mille | Music | Humor in Music |
1971 |
Professor James Yao | Civil Engineering | Earthquake Engineering and Structural Safety |
1970 |
Professor Gerald Nash | History | The American West in the 20th Century |
1968 |
Professor Archie J. Bahm | Philosophy | Philosophy-1968 |
1967 |
Professor Stanley S. Newman | Anthropology | Relativism in Language and Culture |
1966 |
Professor Richard C. Cove | Mechanical Engineering | Advances in Man's Ability to Measure His Environment |
1965 |
Professor Edwin Lieuwen | History | Men on Horseback: The Latin-American Military Elites |
1964 |
Professor Milton Kahn | Chemistry | Radioisotopes in the Study of Unweighable Amounts of Matter |
1963 |
Professor Ralph D. Norman | Psychology | Intelligence Tests and the Personal World |
1962 |
Professor Thomas M. Pearce | English | The Lure of Names |
1961 |
Professor Stuart A. Northrop | Geology | New Mexico's Fossil Record |
1960 |
Professor Victor H. Regener | Physics | Science in Space |
1959 |
Professor William J. Parish | Business Administration | The German Jew and the Commercial Revolution in Territorial New Mexico |
1958 |
Professor Lincoln LaPaz | Astronomy | Some Aspects of Meteoritics |
1957 |
Professor France V. Scholes | History | The Spanish Conqueror as a Business Man: A Chapter in the Life of Hernando Cortez" |
1956 |
Professor Edward F. Castetter | Biology | The Vegetation of New Mexico |
1955 |
Professor Henry Welhofen | Law | Crime, Law and Psychiatry |
1954 |
Professor Leslie Spier | Anthropology | Some Aspects of the Nature of Culture |