PANIA NEWELL portrait
  • Adjunct Faculty, School Of Computing
  • Adjunct Faculty, Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute
  • Adjunct Assistant Professor, School Of Computing
  • Adjunct Associate Professor, Civil And Environmental Engin
  • Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering
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Professional Service

  • Journal of Engineering Materials and Technology , ASME-Journal. Role: Associate Editor. Associate Editor. 10/2023 - present
  • Engineering Fracture Mechanics. Editorial Advisory Board. 06/2023 - present
  • TMS Specialty Congress. Role: Conference organizing committee. Accelerating Discovery for Mechanical Behavior of Materials 2024 at TMS Specialty Congress 2024. 04/2023 - present
  • American Geophysical Union (AGU)-Groundwater Technical Committee. Role: Chair. Running the election of the deputy chair, organizing activities for the committee outside the AGU fall meeting, sending regular newsletters, etc. 01/01/2023 - present
  • eScience. Role: Program co-chair. Organizing eScience 2022 in Salt Lake City. 10/10/2022 - 10/14/2022
  • American Society for Civil Engineers-Engineering Mechanics Institute. Role: Elected chair. Holding the election of the deputy-chair, sending bi-weekly newsletters, overseeing the mentoring activities, organizing seminar series. 05/01/2021 - present
  • American Geophysical Union (AGU)-Groundwater Technical Committee. Role: Deputy chair. Working closely with the chair to --ensuring that the mini symposiums for the fall meetings are organized. --membership list and webpage information are updated. --attend meetings and communicate with the members regarding any updates in our scientifict community. 01/01/2021 - 12/31/2022
  • US Association of Computational Mechanics (USACM). Role: Technical committee member. Defining future research direction and novel methods in computational engineering & sciences within the US. 07/01/2019 - present
  • American Society for Civil Engineers-Engineering Mechanics Institute. Role: Deputy chair. ASCE-Poromechanics Committee. 05/01/2019 - 05/01/2021
  • American Geophysical Union. Role: Member. Groundwater Technical Committee. 08/01/2018 - present
  • International Association for Computational Mechanics. Role: Co-Chair. Female Researchers Chapter. 01/01/2018 - present
  • International Conference on Coupled Processes in Fractured Geological Media: Observation, Modeling, and Application. Technical committee. 12/01/2017 - present
  • USNCCM14-2017. Co-organizing a minisymposia: Computational geomechanics. 07/2017 - present
  • ARMA 2017. Chair and reviewer: Coupled processes-geomechanics, fluid flow, heat, transport. 06/2017 - present
  • AGU 2017. Role: Co-organizing, chair and judge. Addressing Cross-Cutting Subsurface Energy Challenges from Coupled Phenomena to Field Observations. 04/17/2017 - present
  • World Congress Computational Mechanics. Role: Session organizer. Session organizer: Computational Techniques for Fracture Modeling in Porous Media. 01/15/2017 - present
  • AGU-FM 2016. Role: Organizer. Organizing a session: Multi scale, multi physics process in fractured rock and modeling of coupled transport phenomena in fracture networks. 12/2016 - present
  • AGU-FM 2015. Co-organizing a session: Fractures and fracturing in chemically reactive environments. 12/2015 - present

Honors & Awards

  • Best Junior Faculty Presentation Award. US Association for Computational Mechanics, 07/29/2021
  • DOE-National Synchrotron Light Source II (NSLS-II) at Brookhaven National Laboratory (Beamline 18-ID). DOE-National Synchrotron Light Source II (NSLS-II) at Brookhaven National Laboratory (Beamline 18-ID), 08/01/2020
  • Air Force Research Laboratory: Summer Faculty Fellowship, 2019. U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory, 05/04/2019
  • Nominated by a National Academy of Engineering’s member (NAE) for 2019 US Frontiers of Engineering Symposium (US FOE). National Academy of Engineering, 02/10/2019
  • Nomination for Chin-Fu Tsang Coupled Processes Award in CouFrac. 11/01/2018
  • University of Utah nominee for Johnson and Johnson STEM2D in Manufacturing category. 09/10/2018
  • NSF Travel Award-Engineering Mechanics Institute Conference. 05/29/2018
  • Geo-Technical Women Faculty Travel Award-GTWF Workshop. 02/01/2018

Internal Service

  • ME EN 1800 Faculty Panel. 11/03/2022 - present. Department service.
  • Faculty Search-Aerospace. 12/01/2021 - 04/01/2022. Department service.
  • Faculty Search-SCI. 12/01/2021 - 04/01/2022. Other service.
  • Faculty Search-Thermal Sciences. 12/01/2021 - 04/01/2022. Department service.
  • Department EDI committee. 08/01/2021 - 07/01/2023. Department service.
  • Graduate Committee. Member, 01/01/2021 - 12/31/2021. Department service.
  • Facilitate screening the documentary "Picture a Scientist" at the department. 10/08/2020 - present. College service.
  • Faculty Search Committee. 12/01/2018 - 06/30/2019. Department service.
  • Research Faculty Profile (RFP) committee. 10/01/2018 - 02/28/2019. University service.
  • Faculty and Staff Award Committee. Member, 09/01/2018 - present. College service.
  • Volunteered to serve as a panelist for two undergraduate orientation sessions for the freshmen at the college of engineering. 2 sessions in 2017: July 13, 2017 2 sessions in 2018: July 30th, 2018. 07/13/2017 - present. College service.
  • Qual examiner: Finite Element Method and Continuum Mechanics . 07/01/2017 - present. Department service.
  • Participated in Graduate Visitation Week (GVW) by giving an introduction of the IMP Lab and meeting with prosper candidates. 02/23/2017 - 02/24/2017. Department service.
  • Assistance with fracture mechanics’s term project, by advising three teams using Extended Finite Element Method (XFEM) for their projects (Spring 2017). 02/15/2017 - present. Department service.
  • Fellowships/Scholarships & Awards Committee Reviewed: 22 applications in 2017 Reviewed: 23 applications in 2018 Reviewed: 30 application in 2019. 02/2017 - present. Department service.
  • Participated in Graduate Student Advisory Council (GSAC) meeting in Spring and Fall 2017 by presenting the research at the Integrated Multi-Physics Laboratory (IMP Lab) as well as the available opportunities for research in the IMP Lab.. 02/01/2017 - 12/30/2017. Department service.

Community Partnership

  • Screening the film "Picture a Scientist" at Science 2022. 10/10/2022 - 10/14/2022
  • Screening the film "Picture a Scientist" in collaboration with the AGU-Hydrology. 03/01/2022 - 03/31/2022
  • Screening the film "Picture a Scientist" in collaboration with International associations for Computational Mechanics. 02/09/2021 - 02/12/2021
  • Partnering with Los Alamos National Laboratory for organizing technical workshops in the Southwestern region. 01/01/2020 - 03/01/2021
  • Partnering with Los Alamos National Laboratory for organizing technical workshops in the Southwestern region. 10/10/2018 - 10/01/2019
  • Women in Mathematics of Materials (WIMM) Workshop: I co-lead a project titled as: “Fracture in Porous Media and Fluid Flow in a Fractured Media” for in May 14th-18th, 2018. 02/01/2017 - 05/18/2018

Outreach

  • Co-founder and co-host of a Podcast called "This Academic Life". 02/03/2021 - present
  • Computational Mechanics and Sciences Workshop. 10/10/2019 - 10/11/2019
  • American Geophysical Union (2017), volunteer judge for outstanding student paper award (OSPA). 12/11/2017 - 12/15/2018

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