UNM professors earn funding for chemistry student retention program
September 29, 2022 - Savannah Peat
Chemistry students at The University of New Mexico are about to be one step closer to becoming fully-fledged chemists.
That is thanks to a new Partnership for Research and Education in Chemistry (PREC) between UNM and the National Science Foundation (NSF). The NSF awarded Professors Mark Walker and Yi He, of UNM’s Chemistry and Chemical Biology Department an $868,617 grant over the next three years for this partnership.
Walker and He will use this money to improve retention of minority undergraduate students in different chemistry fields. Students involved will join He and Walker to conduct hands-on research in creating manipulative bacterium, as well as studying how this bacterium produces chemical products.
This includes new and useful materials and molecules like medicines.
