Other NM universities announcements

Thanks to a team effort led by alumni from New Mexico State University's College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences, green chilelovers based near the nation's capital will soon be able to get their chile fix.

For the second consecutive year, the Sam Steel Council will trek more than 2,000 miles from Las Cruces to the Washington, D.C., area to bring hundreds of pounds of fresh, authentic Hatch-grown green chile to Aggies who once called New Mexico home.

Jay Lillywhite, a professor in the Department of Agricultural Economics and Agricultural Business at New Mexico State University, has been named associate dean and director of the Agricultural Experiment Station in the College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences.

Lillywhite had been serving as interim associate dean for AES since January and was selected for the role permanently effective July 1. In this role, Lillywhite works closely with college and university administrators, faculty and staff in the College of ACES, and university stakeholders.

The Amy Goldman-Fowler Teaching Garden, part of New Mexico State University's Chile Pepper Institute, is now open for self-guided tours.

The quarter-acre garden, housed at NMSU's Fabián García Science Center in Las Cruces, 113 W. University Ave., is open for self-guided tours from sunrise to sunset seven days a week throughout chile-growing season. It features 140 different varieties of chile peppers that showcase the various culinary uses of chile in New Mexico and around the world.

New Mexico State University Global Campus is expanding its microlearning program in response to increasing demand for flexible, industry-relevant education. This expanded offering now includes a broader range of courses designed to equip professionals with the skills needed to thrive in today's job market.

The rise of microcredentials is driven by the need for specific, up-to-date skills that align with the rapidly evolving job market.

"Our microlearning courses are developed in collaboration with industry experts, ensuring that students acquire the relevant skills necessary to excel in their careers," said Andrew Sedillo, director of Microcredentials Instructional Design at NMSU Global. "We aim to make education more accessible and directly applicable to current market demands."

Clad in a hairnet and white coat, Eva Cortes-Monroy walked across a refrigerated meat lab on New Mexico State University's Las Cruces campus. She stopped before the bright red cattle carcasses hanging from the ceiling and began taking notes.

Cortes-Monroy, an undergraduate student studying agricultural economics and agricultural business, examined the massive beef cuts for quality and yield grade, using the skills she learned as a member of NMSU's recently relaunched meat judging team.

New Mexico State University's Global Campus has opened enrollment for a new cohort of its highly acclaimed Introduction to Grant Writing Microlearning course. The course, available for free, is designed specifically for small business owners, nonprofit managers and city administrators in New Mexico.

The course aims to equip participants with essential skills in identifying grant opportunities, understanding solicitations and writing competitive grant proposals.

Taylor Andrews counts herself among the lucky ones who gets to conduct unique research at New Mexico State University's Corona Range and Livestock Research Center.

Andrews is a doctoral student majoring in animal science at NMSU, and has worked as a graduate assistant in Corona for three years. She has completed three dissertation projects at the center, located eight miles east of Corona, where she has found a second home of sorts.

Hard work is starting to pay off at New Mexico State University's Library as staff and student employees have been working on a prestigious project that recently earned an award from the Conference of Inter-Mountain Archivists.

The Library's National Endowment for the Humanities project team was selected as the 2024 winner of CIMA's Archival Project award for their work on the Amador Family Correspondence Digitization Project."