Non-Local News Releases

 WASHINGTON — U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) called on Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) to advance a legislative solution to support access to Medicare services by avoiding a devastating cut to provider reimbursement rates 

Medicare physician payments were cut by 3.4% on January 1, 2024. The rising cost of practicing medicine has led some health care professionals to limit the number of Medicare patients they serve and exacerbated the already severe health care provider shortage 

"It is anticipated that these cuts will be felt hardest by smaller, independent practices, like those in rural and underserved areas that continue to face significant health care access challenges.," Heinrich and colleagues wrote. "The most important step that Congress can take to create stability in the Medicare program is to address the cut to Medicare payments. We as policymakers must ensure that healthcare providers who treat Medicare patients continue to have the necessary financial support to care for our nation's seniors." 

Winston Patrol from District One Awarded the Ben Lopez Memorial Best Statewide Patrol for 2023

DEMING – Winston Patrol from District One was recently awarded the statewide recognition for the Ben Lopez Memorial Best Patrol of 2023. The Winston Patrol competed against the five other districts for this recognition. 

Winston Patrol crew members: Supervisor Clint Garza, Kegan Garrett, Caleb Young, Tino Luna and Area Maintenace Supervisor Curtis Jandt.

Judges travel around the state to all the patrols nominated for this award, scoring patrols on overall cleanliness, organization, equipment, and roadways.

Condensing hours of research into short, easily understandable presentations, students in New Mexico State University's Graduate School have an opportunity to improve their scientific communication skills in a competition on March 1.  

The Three-Minute Thesis competition will take place from 9 a.m. to noon Friday, Mar. 1, in Domenici Hall, room 109. The competition challenges graduate students to present their research or creative scholarship work in three minutes or less in a manner that a general audience can understand, helping them hone their oral communication skills.  

The Department of Borderlands and Ethnic Studies at New Mexico State University will showcase its new research center as part of Research and Creativity Week at NMSU.

Faculty members from the department known as BEST will come together Wednesday, Feb. 28, to unveil their new center and discuss several current projects that highlight their mission to decolonize research. The event begins at 10 a.m. in the BEST offices on the second floor of Garcia Center. 

NM Society of Professional Engineers award recognizes outstanding contributions to the profession and community

SANTA FE, NM – The New Mexico Society of Professional Engineers (NMSPE) named Energy, Minerals and Natural Resources (EMNRD) employee Harold Trujillo Outstanding Engineer for 2024. This award recognizes outstanding contributions to the engineering profession and community service.  

Trujillo is the Energy Technology & Engineering Bureau Chief for EMNRD's Energy, Conservation and Management Division (ECMD), the New Mexico State Energy Office. While the award designates Trujillo the top engineer for the current year, it also recognizes his long and distinguished EMRD career, which began on November 1, 1979.

left: Graduate student Aaron Stewart, professor Prasit Bhattacharya, postdoctoral researcher Yang Hu and graduate student Mason Adams discussing topology in Bhattacharya's office. Mountain-climbing and mathematics may not seem to have much in common, but New Mexico State University graduate student Aaron Stewart made the connection thanks to his mentor NMSU mathematical sciences professor Prasit Bhattacharya.

"Dr. Bhattacharya has compared mathematics with my favorite pursuit outside of school, alpinism, also known as mountain climbing," Stewart said. "It's an apt analogy in a lot of ways. To climb a route no one has climbed before involves more failure than success, more struggle than ease and more restless nights than easy years. When you hear about the achievement, however, you only hear about the story of success. I think being effective at mathematics requires understanding that."

Mariana Morales had put her hopes of a career in the film industry on hold after high school because of the high cost of college. Now 34, as a senior graduating from New Mexico State University's top-ranked animation program, Morales has the skills to help her pursue her dream job.

"When I was at a point in my life where I felt I needed to reach for this dream again, I came across NMSU's Creative Media Institute animation program and thought that this was my second chance," Morales said. "It opened a floodgate of rediscovering my love for art and teamwork.

The Board of Regents of New Mexico State University will hold a regular meeting at 2 p.m. Monday, March 11, in the Regents Room of the Educational Services Building on the NMSU Las Cruces campus. The meeting will also be livestreamed for public viewing at https://regents.nmsu.edu/regent-meetings /.In compliance with the Open Meetings Act, copies of the agenda will be made available at least 72 hours prior to the meeting and accessible at https://regents.nmsu.edu/regent-meetings .