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Released: 27-Jul-2020 6:05 PM EDT
Testing millions for coronavirus quickly
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Health care entrepreneur Bobby Brooke Herrera, a New Mexico native who grew up just south of Las Cruces, may hold the key to testing millions of Americans to see if they are infected and spreading the coronavirus. His company, E25Bio, is currently pushing to get the Federal Drug Administration’s Emergency Use Authorization by September 1 to launch on the market. As of July 2020, the company has raised $12.92 million in funding from Venture Capital, National Institutes of Health, and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Herrera was named among Forbes 2019 '30 under 30' for healthcare entrepreneurs.

Released: 24-Apr-2019 10:15 AM EDT
NMSU, NMDOH Study Finds Insecticide-Resistant Mosquitoes Across State
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New Mexico State University researchers collaborating with the New Mexico Department of Health recently published a paper that shows there is widespread resistance to insecticides in one type of mosquito found in southern New Mexico

   
Released: 28-Feb-2019 3:05 PM EST
Shaping the future of higher education
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Chancellor of the New Mexico State University System Dan Arvizo, shares his vision and strategies to meet the challenges facing higher education. Arvizu worked for Bell Labs, Sandia National Labs and eventually went on to serve as the eighth director of the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory as well as serving in various roles at Emerson Collective, including chief technology officer, STEM evangelist and senior adviser.

Released: 9-Jan-2019 4:35 PM EST
A Long Shot Could Bear Fruit
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A compound discovered by Jeffrey Arterburn of New Mexico State University and Eric Prossnitz of University of New Mexico is currently in pre-clinical trials. if they go well, human trials will begin at a few sites around the country, led by the UNM Comprehensive Cancer Center.

Released: 13-Dec-2018 12:05 PM EST
NMSU Regents approve new rule, paving the way for industrial hemp production in NM
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Beginning in 2019, farmers in New Mexico will be allowed to produce industrial hemp. Regulations for growing the crop, approved today by the New Mexico State University Board of Regents, are expected to benefit growers and create a new economic driver for the state. The rule will be administered by the New Mexico Department of Agriculture.

Released: 19-Oct-2018 5:05 PM EDT
Engineering professor receives Department of Energy grant
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New Mexico State University Department of Civil Engineering Assistant Professor Ehsan Dehghan Niri has received a United States Department of Energy grant. This is a three-year award for $400,000 and is a collaboration with Arizona State University.

Released: 2-Oct-2018 1:05 PM EDT
NSF awards 5-year grant to fund first-of-its-kind HSI STEM Resource Hub
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The National Science Foundation recently announced its first research awards under the Hispanic-Serving Institutions Program.

   
Released: 27-Sep-2018 1:05 PM EDT
$20 Million NSF Grant for SMART Grid Center Builds on NMSU Research
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The sustainable electric grids of the future will be raised in New Mexico thanks to a $20 million National Science Foundation grant based on smart grid research born at New Mexico State University over the past five years.

Released: 9-Aug-2018 4:05 PM EDT
Research on homemade mosquito repellants finds interesting alternatives
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What do burning coffee, eating bananas and drinking gin and tonic have in common? They are among the unconventional mosquito repellents people say they use.

Released: 24-Jul-2018 4:05 PM EDT
Physicist Among Researchers That May Have Evidence of the Elusive Sterile Neutrino
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NMSU physicist among researchers may have evidence of the elusive sterile neutrino.

Released: 17-Jul-2018 12:05 PM EDT
Late NASA Voyager Imaging Guru Was NMSU's First Astronomy Ph.D.
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Bradford Smith led the imaging team for NASA’s Voyager missions and stoked the imaginations of people worldwide with pictures of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. He was also the first student to earn a Ph.D. in astronomy in the College of Arts and Sciences at New Mexico State University in 1973.

   
Released: 17-Jul-2018 12:05 PM EDT
Undergrads Get Firsthand Experience Researching Immigration Issues Making Headlines
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NMSU undergrads get firsthand experience researching immigration issues making headlines.

   
Released: 6-Jul-2018 1:05 PM EDT
NMSU Professor Receives Presidential Award
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New Mexico State University Regents Professor Elba Serrano is among 27 individuals across the country named last week to receive the Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics and Engineering Mentoring.

Released: 15-May-2018 5:10 PM EDT
NMSU Anthropology Professor Studies Evidence of Historic Trading Route
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An assistant professor of anthropology and her students at New Mexico State University are conducting archaeological research on El Camino Real de Tierra Adentro, a Spanish-Colonial period trade route extending from Mexico City to Santa Fe.

Released: 20-Mar-2018 4:45 PM EDT
Researchers Publish Findings on Study Involving Sleep, Adolescent Stress
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Four faculty members at New Mexico State University have published findings of their study involving effective measures to remedy stress among adolescents.

Released: 15-Mar-2018 6:05 PM EDT
Professor Discovers Answers About Seismic Shifts Deep in the Earth
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The largest and most-devastating earthquakes and volcano eruptions occur where one tectonic plate is shifted underneath another one. A New Mexico State University researcher authored a paper published recently in “Nature Communications” that looks at the so-called subduction zones where the plates become “slabs” and sink into the Earth's mantle.

Released: 13-Mar-2018 4:00 PM EDT
Studies Support the Idea that Female Birds Prefer to Mate and Raise Chicks with Smart Males
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Two former New Mexico State University biology graduate students are currently publishing their dissertation research investigating how the selection of mates may have contributed to the development of sophisticated cognitive abilities in birds.

Released: 8-Mar-2018 4:05 PM EST
Water Conservation: Artificial Turfgrass Versus Real Grass
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The colleges of engineering and agriculture worked together over the summer to find out if turfgrass conserves more water than real grass does. At the end of the project they concluded that turfgrass requires a lot more water to stay cool throughout the day than real grass does.

Released: 22-Feb-2018 3:05 PM EST
Researchers Study Growth of Hawk Population in Albuquerque
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A student in New Mexico State University’s Biology Department recently published a paper in “Condor,” a scientific journal, about the nesting and populating of Cooper’s hawks in urban areas.

Released: 6-Feb-2018 4:30 PM EST
Professor to Study Mental Health of Hurricane Maria Victims in Puerto Rico
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Last year, Hurricane Maria ravaged Puerto Rico, becoming one of the worst natural disasters in U.S territory. Ivelisse Torres Fernandez, an assistant professor at New Mexico State University and a native of Puerto Rico, has begun a study to examine the mental health of aid workers who are helping residents in Puerto Rico and are victims of the storm.

Released: 13-Dec-2017 11:50 AM EST
NMSU Professor Conducts Research on Golden Eagles Being Killed by Wind Turbines
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A New Mexico State University professor in the College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences is conducting research on golden eagles being killed by wind turbines and other human-related factors.

Released: 30-Oct-2017 6:05 PM EDT
NSF Cyber Infrastructure Award to Train Local High School Students
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NMSU receives NSF cyber infrastructure award to train local high school students.

Released: 28-Oct-2017 1:05 PM EDT
Building trust in government.
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NMSU government professor Christa Slaton's research focuses on ethics in government.

Released: 5-Oct-2017 4:00 PM EDT
Professor on NMSU-UCLA Team Working on Augmented Reality, New Networks
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A New Mexico State University professor is working with researchers from UCLA to integrate augmented reality into new wireless edge networks thanks to a grant from the National Science Foundation and Intel Corporation. Satyajayant Misra, NMSU associate professor of computer science, will lead the team’s investigation of the security challenges.

Released: 26-Sep-2017 6:05 PM EDT
Computer Scientist Uses NSF Grant to Find Biological Patterns
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A professor in New Mexico State University’s Department of Computer Science recently received a National Science Foundation grant to develop automated methods to discover molecular patterns from human and mouse genomics data.

Released: 14-Sep-2017 3:05 PM EDT
Northern New Mexico Forest Restoration Project Includes Wildlife Study
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Areas in the Northern New Mexico Jemez Mountains and Valles Caldera National Preserve have been through prescribed burns or forest thins to allow for a less dense canopy, so new grasses and shrubs may grow and so wildfires will be less destructive. The treatments are part of the Southwest Jemez Collaborative Landscape Restoration Project.

Released: 1-Aug-2017 1:05 PM EDT
Endangered Bat Species Pollinates Agave Plants
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A binational research group is collecting data on the migratory pattern of Mexican long-nosed bats. These bats pollinate the agave plant from which tequila is made. They migrate toward the corridor of agave and columnar cactus from Mexico to the Southwestern U.S. Researchers hope to save the species by understanding more about their migration.

Released: 18-Jul-2017 5:05 PM EDT
Experts Dig Up Las Cruces Boy’s Million-Year-Old Fossil Find
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Ten-year Jude Sparks’s accidental discovery in the Las Cruces desert led a New Mexico State University professor to a rare, mostly intact 1.2 million year-old stegomastodon skull. NMSU biology professor Peter Houde put together a team that worked for about a week to carefully unearth the skull.

Released: 11-Jul-2017 5:05 PM EDT
Astronomy Professor Studies Unusual Galaxy in Distant Universe
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MACS2129-1 is dead in the sense that it no longer produces stars. But what makes this galaxy particularly significant is the fact that, unlike many dead galaxies, which tend to be elliptical or oval-shaped, this galaxy is disk or spiral-shaped, like the Milky Way, and its stars rotate in a flattened disk, much like the Milky Way’s stars.

Released: 7-Jul-2017 1:05 PM EDT
Professors Expand Project to Map Zika Mosquitoes Across Southern New Mexico
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Researchers at New Mexico State University have received a second contract from the New Mexico Department of Health to expand last summer’s project to map the geographic distribution of mosquitoes that can carry the Zika virus in the state. The first study found the mosquitoes are located in urban areas in southern New Mexico.

   
Released: 15-Jun-2017 5:05 PM EDT
Dryland Cropping Systems Research Addresses Future Drought and Hunger Issues
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The projected world population by 2056 is 10 billion. If researchers succeed in improving the yield potential of 40 percent of global land area under arid and semi-arid conditions, it will lead to a significant contribution to future food security.

Released: 13-Jun-2017 2:05 PM EDT
Know of a Homemade Mosquito Repellent?
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If you have a recipe for homemade mosquito repellent, two New Mexico State University professors want to hear about it.

Released: 1-May-2017 4:05 PM EDT
$2.5 Million Gift Drives Economic Development
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The New Mexico State University system launched the public phase of its $125 million comprehensive campaign, “Ignite Aggie Discovery,” by announcing a $2.5 million gift from the Hunt Family Foundation to benefit Arrowhead Center, NMSU’s entrepreneurship and innovation hub.

Released: 1-May-2017 3:05 PM EDT
Research Shows Technology May Help Speed Political Polarization
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In the August edition of “Computers in Human Behavior,” New Mexico State University research reveals the mechanisms behind political polarization in an article titled “The dark side of technology: An experimental investigation of the influence of customizability technology on online political selective exposure.”

   
Released: 13-Apr-2017 4:05 PM EDT
Student Develops Device to Improve Cattle Grazing, Partners with Aggie Innovation Space
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New Mexico State University Department of Animal and Range sciences junior Josiah Brooks is creating a feed intake device for cattle, and he is working with the Aggie Innovation Space to design and develop parts for a prototype.

Released: 7-Mar-2017 1:05 PM EST
New Type of Maple Tree Receives Patent
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New Mexico State University has recently been awarded a patent on a type of Bigtooth maple tree, the Mesa Glow maple. Its scientific name is Acer grandidentatum “JFS-NuMex 3,” and its leaves turn a brilliant crimson color in the fall.

Released: 22-Feb-2017 5:05 PM EST
NMSU Partners on Regional Transportation Research Center
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New Mexico State University is a member of a consortium of universities that have received a nearly $2.5 million U.S. Department of Transportation grant to establish a regional transportation research center.

Released: 22-Feb-2017 4:05 PM EST
NMSU Range Science Professor Receives Fulbright Award to AustraliaNMSU Range Science Professor receives Fulbright award to Australia
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On vast rangeland, livestock is difficult and expensive to manage. But Derek Bailey, professor in the New Mexico State University Department of Animal and Range Sciences, is working to find ways to help such ranchers better manage their livestock and improve animal welfare. His efforts include collaborating with researchers in Australia, where the rangeland is similar to that in New Mexico and other western states. Bailey will further his research at Central Queensland University in Rockhampton with the help of the prestigious Fulbright Senior Scholarship he was recently awarded.

Released: 22-Feb-2017 4:05 PM EST
NMSU Expert Gives Tips on Safe Water Storage, Treatment in Case of Crisis
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In the case of emergencies affecting potable water supplies, New Mexico State University water expert Rossana Sallenave released a guide on how to properly treat and store water for long periods of time.

Released: 22-Feb-2017 4:05 PM EST
NMSU Forest Researchers Evaluate Nursery Protocol to Improve Survival Rate of Seedlings
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Because of the increasing severity of forest fires in New Mexico and Arizona in recent years, there are approximately 118,000 acres of high severity devastation that need reforestation, according to a white paper by the U.S. Forest Service.

Released: 22-Feb-2017 1:05 PM EST
NMSU, UNM Introduce Public Health to Maternal and Child Health Care Practitioners
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As a medically underserved, rural and impoverished state, New Mexico has many health care issues. One area is public health issues associated with mother and child health care. Four women sitting in row New Mexico Maternal and Child Health Public Health Training Institute first graduates are, from left, Olowan De Herrera, Pamela Sedillo, Robin Hayter and Savannah Gene. Also receiving a graduate certificate in public health, but not pictured, are Gail Salas, Laura Shattuck and Miriam Sosa. (NMSU photo by Jane Moorman) The public health programs at New Mexico State University and the University of New Mexico are working together to increase the capacity of mother and child health professionals to directly address the public health issues in the communities where they live, which is essen

Released: 24-Jan-2017 4:05 PM EST
Researchers From New Mexico and Australia Collaborate on GPS Tracking Technology to Ensure Animal Welfare
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Animal welfare on huge rangelands is a challenge. Researchers in New Mexico and Australia are collaborating to find ways to help ranchers better manage livestock and improve animal welfare. Researchers in Australia are very close to having real-time or near real-time GPS tracking of livestock.

Released: 13-Jan-2017 5:05 PM EST
Engineering Students Design, Build Wheelchair Device for Dog
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Three College of Engineering students at New Mexico State University designed and built a wheelchair device to assist a dog who had his right hind leg amputated due to cancer this past spring.

Released: 13-Dec-2016 3:05 PM EST
Turfgrass Research Focuses on Irrigation Efficiency, Drought Tolerance
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Subsurface drip irrigation is the newest method in turfgrass efficiency. Two projects will test these research findings: A subsurface drip irrigation system in several tee boxes at a golf course, and a city park, where a subsurface drip irrigation system has been installed on half of the park.

Released: 29-Nov-2016 4:05 PM EST
College Students Use Non-Traditional Avenues to Augment Research Funding
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Students are using non-traditional funding sources to augment their research projects. The following NMSU students are using outside sources: Grace Smith Vidaurre is using Experiment.com; Brian Ramos-Guivas used Instrumentl in the past and is now using GoFundMe; Sativa Cruz, a recent graduate, used GoFundMe.


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