
The University of New Mexico
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Contact: Steve Carr, (505) 277-1821; e-mail: scarr@unm.edu
March 20, 2006
UNM'S OPST Curriculum Development Grants Awarded
Response to new grant initiative positive
The Office for Policy, Security and Technology, a collaborative venture by the University of New Mexico and Sandia National Laboratories (SNL), has selected four groups for $5,000 grant awards to support the development of new interdisciplinary undergraduate and or graduate courses that highlight the relationship between public policy and science and technology (S&T).
"I am extremely pleased with the response to OPST's new curriculum development grant program,” said Andrew Ross, OPST director and professor of Political Science. “We're seeing faculty work together across traditional disciplinary boundaries to develop innovative courses at the nexus of S&T and public policy.”
The curriculum development grants have been awarded to the following groups:
Amir H. Mohagheghi, program manager, Middle East Regional Security Program, Cooperative Monitoring Center (CMC), Sandia National Laboratories; Faraj Ghanbary, program /project manager, CMC, SNL; and Mozafar Banihashemi, Ph.D. candidate, Department of Sociology, for ‘Nuclear Non-Proliferation Science and Policy.' This proposal was a collaborative effort of the UNM Department of Sociology, the UNM Religious Studies Program and its Southwest Institute on Religion and Civil Society and the Cooperative Monitoring Center at Sandia National Laboratories.
Christopher K. Butler, assistant professor, Department of Political Science, and Mohamed S. El-Genk, Regents' Professor of Chemical and Nuclear Engineering and Director, Institute for Space and Nuclear Power Studies, School of Engineering, for ‘The Human Settlement of Space: Practical and Political Pitfalls and Possibilities.'
Dante Di Gregorio, assistant professor, International Management, Anderson Schools of Management; Suleiman “Sul” K. Kassicieh, ASM Endowed Chair in Economic Development and director, Center for Support of Economic Development, Anderson Schools of Management; and Steven T. Walsh, associate professor, Department of Finance, and the Albert Franklin Black Professor of Entrepreneurship, Anderson Schools of Management, for ‘Technology Transfer, Commercialization and Economic Development.'
Diana Northup, visiting associate professor, Department of Biology, and Professor Emerita, Centennial Science and Engineering Library, and Janet Yagoda Shagam, instructor, Professional Writing Program, UNM, for ‘Communicating Science.'
These courses will be offered at UNM during either the 2006-07 or the following academic year. Proposals for OPST's new curriculum development grant program were reviewed by a multidisciplinary faculty committee consisting of Gregory Gleason (Political Science), Timothy Moy (History) and Kirsten Mills (School of Engineering).
For additional information contact Andrew L. Ross, OPST director and Political Science professor at (505) 277-7391 or via e-mail: aross@unm.edu and or Stephanie Grant, OPST group administrator at (505) 277-1397 or via e-mail: slgrant@unm.edu .
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