Angela Owens has been named director of New Mexico State University’s Glass Family Research Institute for Early Childhood Studies, an innovative institute that seeks to influence policy and practices related to New Mexico’s young children, families and early childhood educators.

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The world’s largest conference dedicated to chile peppers will take place in an all-virtual format this year. New Mexico State University, the Chile Pepper Institute and Extension Plant Sciences will host the 2021 New Mexico Chile Conference from 7:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Feb. 2 on Zoom.

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A woman who has had one of the strongest impacts on STEM education in New Mexico has retired from New Mexico State University, but shows no signs of slowing down her efforts to create better educational opportunities for New Mexico’s children.

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The New Mexico State University Department of Art will host a variety of artists from across the country as part of the virtual Visiting Artist and Scholar Lecture Series. The series will kick off with an online presentation by renowned New York based artist Michael Waugh at 6 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 27 via Zoom.

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New Mexico State University’s Office of Experiential Learning invites NMSU students and alumni along with community members to attend the 16th annual Career Connections Fair Feb. 2-3. The two-day event will be held virtually, via Handshake, from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. The event is co-sponsored by the College of Engineering.

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Students from the Department of Civil Engineering at New Mexico State University received numerous awards at NMSU’s recent virtual Research and Creativity Week event. Eight civil engineering students presented their projects with four placing in the top 10 of all presentations.

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The U.S. Small Business Administration has recognized the New Mexico Federal and State Technology Partnership Program, housed at New Mexico State University’s Arrowhead Center, with the 2020 Tibbetts Award in recognition of the program’s Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) achievements.

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National and state economists will present their economic forecasts for 2021 during New Mexico State University’s 10th annual Economic Outlook Conference Feb. 11.

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Andrea Orzoff, an associate professor of history at New Mexico State University, has been appointed to lead the university’s Office of National Scholarship and International Education.

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A team of researchers from the College of Engineering at New Mexico State University have published a study that tests the effectiveness of face masks in close human interactions.

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In October 2017, the Patent and Trademark Resource Center at New Mexico State University’s Zuhl Library hosted a United States Patent and Trademark Office training event. Members of the campus and community attended to learn more about the patent process.

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For the first time in its 132-year history, New Mexico State University hosted an all-virtual convocation to kick off the start of a new semester.

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Anne Hubbell, professor of communication studies at New Mexico State University, has been named associate dean of NMSU’s William Conroy Honors College.

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Call it brainstorming. Call it problem solving. Today’s IT professionals call it hackathon.

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New Mexico State University and the New Mexico Acequia Association will host a workshop, “Acequias and Science: A Community Conversation,” on Zoom from 6 to 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 14. The event is intended to help mayordomos, commissioners and parciantes understand scientific results and real-world implications.

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Phillip N. Frietze grew up in Mesilla, the son of a U.S. Marine with roots in southern New Mexico that date back to the 1840s. At an early age, Frietze told his father Neri he wanted to join the Corps.

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New Mexico State University hosted its first full-scale New Mexico Department of Health COVID-19 vaccination event on Jan. 8, providing space, volunteer personnel and logistical support for the distribution of more than 600 doses of the vaccine to eligible members of the community. Two additional events are scheduled for later this month.

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As the United States rolls out an ambitious campaign to administer the COVID-19 vaccine, a new study co-authored by a New Mexico State University researcher examines American attitudes toward COVID-19 immunization.

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New Mexico State University academic programs, scholarships and STEM programs in southeastern New Mexico have received support from a generous donation from Chevron’s Mid Continent Business Unit.

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New Mexico State University’s Arrowhead Center has signed a memorandum of understanding with the government of Sonora, Mexico, to share resources and collaborate on binational entrepreneurial initiatives.

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The National 4-H Council has announced the election of an New Mexico State University College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences associate dean to its board of trustees. Jon Boren, director of the NMSU Cooperative Extension Service, is among two new members to the board.

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New Mexico State University is positioning itself as a leader in agricultural sustainability as a team of researchers embark on new projects to study groundbreaking water-saving technology.

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Students involved in New Mexico State University’s Research Experience for Undergraduates program in 2020 were unable to do the kind of face-to-face research possible in previous years.

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When course instruction at New Mexico State University transitioned to an online format in March, the NMSU Center for Learning & Professional Development’s annual programming had to shift to a virtual environment as well. Two of the leadership programs, the Aggie Leadership Training Academy and Manager Certification Program, celebrated the graduation of their 2020 cohorts in early December.

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Born in Columbus, Ohio, Gary Seipel joined the U.S. Air Force shortly after high school. His parents could not afford to send him to college. While stationed for three years in Ohio, Seipel took night classes at Wittenberg University, but it wasn’t till he joined students at New Mexico State University’s Alamogordo campus, that his future began to take shape.

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New Mexico State University’s Arrowhead Center partnered with the El Paso County Economic Development Department to offer two free six-week business accelerators in October and November. Participants were guided through the program to grow and refine their business strategies, and reported back on the boost the sprints gave to their companies.

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The New Mexico State University system will play a key role in helping the New Mexico Department of Health distribute doses of a COVID-19 vaccine to the general public at its campuses throughout the state. The collaboration will leverage NMSU locations, resources and expertise to help aid in vaccine distribution.

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Small businesses from across the globe met virtually to learn about federal funding opportunities for their innovative ideas during the fourth annual New Mexico SBIR/STTR Innovation Summit Dec. 9.

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The New Mexico State University Board of Regents will hold a special meeting at 9 a.m. on Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2021. Due to the public health emergency order issued by New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham, the meeting will take place online via Zoom at https://panopto.nmsu.edu/bor. 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 on the public university website at https://regents.nmsu.edu/agenda.

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New Mexico State University biology Professor Peter Houde is among more than 200 researchers involved in phase two of a massive effort at mapping the genomes of each of the world’s 10,500 bird species. In the project known as B10K, researchers from University of Copenhagen and partner institutions have sequenced 363 genomes from 92.4 percent of all bird families on Earth.

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