Faculty Experts

Many UNM faculty experts are available for media interviews. Search by name or expertise, using quotes to separate topics. (Example: "law" "politics")

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Martin Jones

Assistant Professor, Individual, Family & Community Education

Martin Jones is an educational psychology professor. His research focuses on how friends affect academic motivation and achievement, especially among underserved and underrepresented students. Jones earned his Doctorate in Educational Psychology from...

Elizabeth Yakes Jimenez

Research Associate Professor, Pediatrics and Internal Medicine

Elizabeth Yakes Jimenez is an research associate professor in the Departments of Pediatrics (Division of Adolecent Medicine) and Internal Medicine (Division of Epidemiology Biostatistics and Preventive Medicine) with an MS in Public Health Nutrition and...

Kerry Howe

Director, Center for Water and the Environment

Kerry Howe is a registered professional engineer (P.E.) and a board certified environmental engineer (BCEE) by the American Academy of Environmental Engineers.

Janie Chermak

Professor, Economics

Professor Janie Chermak, Department of Economics, is a natural resources and environmental economics expert with an emphasis on energy, including oil and gas, water and invasive species. Chernak has been in the Economics Department since 1995 when she ...

David Gutzler

Professor Emeritus, Earth and Planetary Sciences

Gutzler's research interests include climatology, meteorology, interactions between Earth's atmosphere and its hydrosphere, biosphere, cryosphere and lithosphere, predictability and variability of weather and climate and extreme weather events ...

Tobias Fischer

Professor, Earth and Planetary Sciences

Professor Tobias Fischer, a UNM faculty member since 2000, specializes in geochemistry and volcanology Steering committee member of the Deep Carbon Observatory's (DCO) reservoirs and fluxes community Fischer’s community is dedicated to identifying the ...

Erik Erhardt

Assistant Professor, Statistics

Erik Erhardt is an assistant professor of statistics in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics Director of the statistics consulting clinic. Co-director of the Biostatistics and NeuroInformatics (BNI) Core for the second phase of the Center for ...

Leslie Donovan

Professor, Honors College

Professor of the Honors College at the University of New Mexico Ph.D. in English, with an emphasis on Old and Middle English literature, from the University of Washington Publications include studies on Valkyries in The Lord of the Rings, women...

Katherine Crawford-Garrett

Assistant Professor, Teacher Education

Earned Ph.D. in Reading/Writing/Literacy from the University of Pennsylvania in 2012. Prior to coming to UNM, she taught for seven years at a progressive, urban charter school in Washington, DC. Her research interests include Neoliberal models of...

Jay Parkes

Professor, Educational Psychology

Parkes currently chair of the Department of Individual, Family & Community Education and Professor of Educational Psychology Parkes teaches graduate courses in classroom assessment, educational measurement, introductory & intermediate statistics, and...

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