This category will combine all universities that are not in Silver City, i.e. not WNMU, into one category under Non-Local News Releases

When this category is created, we have NMSU and ENMU that send us notices. 

NMSU ROTC hosts 122nd Presidential Pass-in-Review

WHAT: 122nd Presidential Pass in Review and awards and scholarship ceremony

WHO: NMSU Air Force ROTC and Army ROTC

WHEN: 2 p.m. Thursday, April 25WHERE: Hadley Pride Field on the Horseshoe 

VISUALS: Helicopter flyover and cadets in uniform for Pass-in-Review at 2 p.m. Thursday, April 25 at Hadley Pride Field; scholarship and award ceremony for ROTC students at 2:30 p.m. at Hardman and Jacobs Undergraduate Learning Center room 125

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NMSU student-run coffee shop reboots with sweet collaboration

On a Wednesday morning in March, students in the culinary arts program at Doña Ana Community College mixed, scooped and baked dozens of cookies, muffins and whoopie pies in a kitchen laboratory on DACC’s East Mesa campus.

By that afternoon, the cooled and packaged baked goods were en route to New Mexico State University’s Las Cruces campus. Their destination? The Sam Steel Café in the heart of Gerald Thomas Hall – home of NMSU’s College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences.

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NMSU geography alumna manages New York City parks

From a young age, Terese Flores dreamed of moving to New York City. Raised in Silver City and Las Cruces, she hoped her dream would one day become a reality. Twenty years after graduating from New Mexico State University with a bachelor’s degree in geography, she is now the Regional Park Manager for Manhattan in the New York City Parks Department.

Since starting her position, she has helped the city battle a pandemic, started an agency initiative for women in her field called Women in Leadership and has mentored many young interns in the world of Geographic Information System (GIS) mapping software.

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ENMU Announces Digitization of Silverpack Yearbooks

Portales, NM – April 16, 2024 – Eastern New Mexico University announced today that the Golden Library Archives has digitized the collection of all ENMU Silverpacks, the University yearbooks, dating from 1935-2008.

“I am beyond excited to see this project come to fruition,” said Regina Bouley-Sweeten, Archives and Special Collections Librarian. “So many people will use this collection, from alumni and their families to local community members to researchers and more. I especially want to thank the ENMU Foundation for funding the digitization of the yearbooks.”

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NMSU receives 5-year NIH grant to train undergraduate researchers

A $1.6 million grant from the National Institutes of Health will fund training for undergraduate researchers at New Mexico State University over the next five years. The award, under the NIH National Institute of General Medical Sciences, will support NMSU’s Undergraduate Research Initiative for Scientific Enhancement (U-RISE) Program.

The program promotes broad participation in the biomedical research workforce by strengthening research training environments and expanding the pool of well-trained students who complete their baccalaureate degree, and transition into and complete biomedical, research-focused higher degree programs such as Ph.D. or M.D./Ph.D.

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NMSU researcher co-authors book on NM wild carnivores

A New Mexico State University researcher has co-authored a new book that examines wild carnivores of New Mexico.

Jennifer K. Frey, a professor of mammalian ecology in the Department of Fish, Wildlife and Conservation Ecology in NMSU’s College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences, teamed up with Jean-Luc E. Cartron to write “Wild Carnivores of New Mexico,” a 1,148-page book published earlier this year by the University of New Mexico Press.

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NMSU Aggie Fashion Club to host 2024 Sustainable Fashion Show

Students with New Mexico State University’s Aggie Fashion Club are ready to book it to the runway and show off their unique fashion skills once again at their annual Sustainable Fashion Show.  

The event is set to take place at 6 p.m. Thursday, April 18, at the Aggie Lounge in Corbett Center Student Union.  

This year, the upcycled and recycled designs are inspired by literature, with the theme being “Book it to the Runway!” One of the main purposes of the fashion show is to continue making a positive impact on the environment and create more sustainability.  

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NMSU history professor awarded NEH Summer Stipend for research

Thanks to the National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend program, Jamie Bronstein, a New Mexico State University history professor, will be researching what was once known as New Mexico’s “Territorial Insane Asylum.”

A transatlantic historian, usually focused on Britain and the United States, Bronstein in recent years has grown interested in less researched areas of New Mexico history. Her current project is titled: “The "Insanity" of Colonialism: Mental Health in New Mexico, 1889-1930.” A $6,000 NEH stipend this summer will allow her to spend two months of uninterrupted research in various archives and databases to draw some conclusions about the state’s mental institution and the patients it served.

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