HEST faculty, staff members win awards at spring 2025 convocation

Five faculty and staff members from the College of HEST were recognized with a trio of awards presented at NMSU’s spring 2025 convocation.

The recipients included Judith Flores Carmona, professor of multicultural education; Rachel Boren, director of the Southwest Outreach Academic Research Evaluation and Policy Center; Monique Matute-Chavarria, assistant professor of special education; Sarah Wiegand, assistant professor of special education and early childhood; and Anita Hernández, professor of bilingual education. 

Flores Carmona received the Distinguished Career Award for Social Sciences and Humanities for her research and scholarship in critical pedagogy, critical race feminism, critical multicultural education, and testimonio methodology and pedagogy.

Boren received the Research Recognition Award for leading SOAR, which evaluates grants, internal research and external organizations in education, health care and social sciences.

Matute-Chavarria, Wiegand and Hernández received the Team Research Award for their work investigating an early intervention curriculum and undergraduate participants’ learning of related concepts, culturally sustaining practices and ways for honoring the cultural wealth of infants, toddlers, young children with disabilities and their families.