Other NM universities announcements

Jagdish Khubchandani, a professor of public health at New Mexico State University, has received a national mentoring award from the American Public Health Association.

Khubchandani, who joined NMSU's College of Health, Education, and Social Transformation in 2020, received the Lyndon Haviland Mentoring Award Oct. 28 during the American Public Health Association's annual meeting in Minneapolis.

The award recognizes the role of mentoring in public health and leadership development. It is given to senior public health practitioners or academics who take an active role in mentoring students and young professionals through regular contact, professional development or research support.

Learn the latest about new agrivoltaics research, precision ranching, oryx and cattle interactions, remote-sensing tools and more at New Mexico State University's Chihuahuan Desert Rangeland Research Center's field day Nov. 15.

The field day will take place at the center from 8 a.m. to 12 p.m. The headquarters is located at 9912 County Road E079 in Las Cruces. To get there, either search for State University Ranch Headquarters on Google Maps, or enter coordinates 32.530294, -106.804344.

The use of artificial intelligence in education has been a hot-button topic as of late. Research on the use of AI and ties to racial bias has led to the founding of a new research collaborative based at New Mexico State University's College of Health, Education and Social Transformation involving faculty at NMSU, the University of Texas at El Paso and other universities in the region to explore bias in the educational uses of generative AI.

One example of generative AI is the popular ChatGPT, which allows users to create text, visual and audio content using data it is trained on. Melissa Warr, assistant professor in the School of Teacher Preparation, Administration and Leadership, is leading a research study exploring racial bias in ChatGPT, and the implications for the use of tools like Chat GPT in education.

Members within all levels of the New Mexico State University art department will share a hands-on experience with the community with a day of "Open Studios" from 12 to 4 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 9. Visitors are invited to participate in workshops, guided tours and even do some holiday shopping via the student art sale at Devasthali Hall, located at 1308 E. University Ave.

Many graduate students will have pieces of their work available for purchase during the event.

PORTALES, NM – November 1, 2024 – Eastern New Mexico University's Office of Native American Affairs celebrates Native American Heritage Month throughout November with numerous events, speaking engagements, and music programs on campus.

Native American Heritage Month was first known as "American Indian Week" in 1986. President Reagan set aside this week to celebrate Native American Heritage. However, in 1995, November became Native American Heritage Month, which honors the history, individuality, and respect of Native American people and tribes.

With New Mexico State University on track to become an R1-designated research institution in 2025, the university is also well ahead of its research expenditure goal.

Preliminary numbers collected for the National Science Foundation's Higher Education Research and Development Survey indicate that in 2024, NMSU has had $141 million in research expenditures, or funds spent to conduct research. The largest increase in expenditures were seen in biological and biomedical sciences.

"Behind this exciting HERD number are talented, hard-working, creativity faculty, students and staff who have overperformed on a key performance indicator in our LEADS 2025 Strategic Plan," said Luis Cifuentes, NMSU vice president of research, creativity and economic development.

Arrowhead Center at New Mexico State University has been awarded a $200,000 grant through the U.S. Small Business Administration's Federal and State Technology Partnership Program to continue empowering startups and small businesses in New Mexico with the resources they need to succeed in the competitive world of technology commercialization.

Now in its 10th year of funding, Arrowhead Center will continue to provide assistance to small businesses in innovation research through the FAST program. Arrowhead officials acknowledged the SBA and administrator Isabel Casillas Guzman for her continued support.

Arrowhead Center at New Mexico State University is now home to southern New Mexico's first co-innovation hub for NewSpace Nexus, a nonprofit organization that focuses on accelerating the pace of space innovation by uniting and igniting the industry.

The co-innovation hub will be housed at Arrowhead Center's SPACE Incubator, which unites startups and assistance providers across the space, agriculture and clean energy sectors. Representatives from Arrowhead Center and NewSpace Nexus made the announcement during a ribbon-cutting ceremony Oct. 17 at Arrowhead.