Other NM universities announcements

Kathy Hansen, one of the three founders of Arrowhead Center at New Mexico State University, has retired more than 20 years after the center began as a university tech transfer and intellectual property office.

Alongside Kevin Boberg and former NMSU Chancellor and New Mexico Gov. Garrey Carruthers, Hansen started Arrowhead Center in 2003. Since becoming the center's director and CEO in 2013, the center has grown into a key driver of innovation, entrepreneurship and economic development for New Mexico.

"While we had great hopes for what Arrowhead would be able to accomplish when we started the organization, the success we have achieved has been extraordinary to witness, even as someone who has been at the center of the work," Hansen said.

Two public health researchers at New Mexico State University are collaborating on a series of studies to understand the long-term impacts of food insecurity among American adults living with chronic diseases.

Jagdish Khubchandani and Karen Kopera-Frye, both professors of public health sciences in NMSU's College of Health, Education and Social Transformation, recently conducted two studies using multiple large population databases from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

In their first study, Khubchandani and Kopera-Frye used a sample of more than 30,000 adults, 20 years and older, across the nation to understand the impact of food insecurity among those with colorectal cancer.

NMSU Visiting Artist Lecture Series

Ebitenyefa Baralaye is a sculptor whose work has been exhibited nationally and internationally at Friedman Benda Gallery (New York), David Klein Gallery (Detroit), Shoshana Wayne Gallery in Los Angeles, the Museum of the African Diaspora in San Francisco and the Korea Ceramic Foundation in Icheon.

As every aspect of our society continues to speed up, the far-reaching potential of room-temperature superconducting materials could hasten our daily lives to light speed. Physics researchers' ability to understand these materials may eventually lead to new possibilities, including ultraefficient electricity grids, ultrafast and energy-efficient computer chips and ultrapowerful magnets that can be used to levitate trains and control fusion reactors.

This is just one area of materials physics, and there are many more. Thanks to a new grant, New Mexico State University can invite more students to participate in this type of research.

More than 60 researchers from New Mexico State University's colleges have been appointed to serve on scientific journal editorial boards, according to a list compiled by the NMSU Office of Research, Creativity and Economic Development.

The list includes 12 editors from the College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences, 18 editors from the College of Arts and Sciences, three editors from the College of Business, 15 editors from the College of Engineering and 10 editors from the College of Health, Education and Social Transformation. They have been appointed to various scientific and creative journals, including those published by Elsevier, Sage, Springer, Taylor and Francis, and Wiley.

Jim Stanfill is bringing more than 30 years of IT leadership experience to New Mexico State University as its new chief information officer. Stanfill was selected from finalists named by an NMSU committee after a six-month search. He started the CIO position Sept. 19.

Stanfill has worked with most major technology companies in the country, handling major IT transformations for Hewlett Packard, General Dynamics, General Motors and IBM. He was the founder, president and chief technology officer of InVinci Systems, Inc. and served as a strategic technology advisor and enterprise data architect to Fortune 500 clients across various industries before his retirement.

While New Mexico State University's Fabián García Science Center in Las Cruces is small compared to its sister centers throughout the state, it certainly packs a punch.

The center will host its annual field day Oct. 9, featuring the latest in research on chile and other crops, and the new home of NMSU's Chile Pepper Institute, which will be open during the field day.

The field day will begin with registration at 7:30 a.m. at the center, 113 University Ave. in Las Cruces. Attendees are asked to park at 500 W. College Ave. Along with several research presentations, participants can view poster presentations and sample food by students with the School of Hotel, Restaurant and Tourism Management.

New Mexico State University is looking at the next steps to restore and rebuild its Alumni Pond, which was closed last August after losing a significant amount of water in a short period of time.

NMSU engaged with Molzen Corbin, a national engineering firm based in New Mexico with significant expertise in water resource engineering, to conduct an evaluation of the pond. The completed report was provided to NMSU in December 2023.

Some observations of this report include: The pond was created in the 1970s and is approximately one acre in size; 12-feet deep at maximum; and has a volume of 2.2 million gallons. At the point of closure, the pond had lost approximately 750,000 gallons of water in three days, about one-third of its capacity. The pond's liner is more than 45 years old and should be completely replaced.