UNM honors 2024 Distinguished Professors
August 1, 2024
The University of New Mexico announced the promotion and honor of nine faculty to the rank of Distinguished Professor, three of whom teach in UNM Health Sciences.
The rank of Distinguished Professor is awarded to faculty who have demonstrated outstanding achievements and are nationally and internationally renowned scholars. This is the highest title that UNM bestows upon faculty.
The selections cut across campus from the School of Medicine, College of Pharmacy, Anderson School of Management, School of Engineering, and College of Arts and Sciences. The research conducted over the decades by this group of faculty demonstrates the very high levels of research activity conducted by an R1 institution, a designation by the Carnegie Classifications of Institutions of Higher Education.
The faculty promoted to Distinguished Professors in 2024 were:
- Elaine Bearer, Pathology, School of Medicine
- Matthew Campen, Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Pharmacy
- Cameron Crandall, Emergency Medicine, School of Medicine
- Tobias Fischer, Earth and Planetary Sciences, College of Arts and Sciences
- Mala Htun, Political Science, College of Arts and Sciences
- Tiffany Lee, Native American Studies, College of Arts and Sciences
- Gabriel Lopez, Chemical and Biological Engineering, School of Engineering
- Xin (Robert) Luo, Marketing, Information, and Decision Science, Anderson School of Management
- Robert Miller, Biology, College of Arts and Sciences