Other NM universities announcements

The New Mexico State University Foundation has created more than 30 banners to display on the NMSU campus saluting some of the university's most accomplished alumni.

The "Legends" banners recognize alumni who have notable achievements, with a photo of the alum and a shout-out to their proudest accomplishments. The banners will be displayed around the Horseshoe and along the International Mall, ensuring visibility to students, faculty, staff and all visitors during Homecoming 2024.

Since its founding in 2022, the Borderlands and Ethnic Studies Department at New Mexico State University has invited students to learn more deeply about themselves, their communities and their lived environments. Its courses, spanning five fields, strive to provide complete and accurate histories of peoples and places on local and global scales.

Now housed in the College of HEST, the department, known simply as BEST, has much to celebrate. Its growing roster of programs cover relational ethnic studies, Native American studies, Chicana/Chicano studies, decolonial research and Palestine studies. It currently offers three undergraduate minors and one graduate certificate.

New Mexico State University will host a live forum with NMSU archaeology assistant professor Katie Richards as part of the NMSU Cambios Climate Change Speaker Series, an interdisciplinary series to bring a range of experts to NMSU and Las Cruces to promote informed discussion of the causes and consequences of climate change. The event will be free and open to the public.

Katie Richards, NMSU archaeology assistant professor, will give a talk titled "The Archaeology of Climate Change: How Past Peoples Adapted to Changing Environments in the American Southwest." Richards' primary research focus is on the use of pottery production and distribution to explore issues of identity and migration in the precontact far northern American Southwest. She will discuss how conditions along the northern extreme of the Southwest impacted cultures living in the region.

Five dozen middle and high school teachers from New Mexico and 12 other states are participating in a new professional development program at New Mexico State University that aims to sharpen skills in the culinary arts, hospitality management and sustainable agriculture.

NMSU's School Hotel, Restaurant and Tourism Management and Arrowhead Center's Innoventure Program developed the professional development program for secondary education teachers through a $500,000 grant from the National Institute of Food and Agriculture, a division of the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

 Portales, NM – Oct. 23, 2024 – Fifty years ago, Duane W. Ryan, director of broadcasting at ENMU, brought public television to the high plains of Eastern New Mexico. In celebration of this accomplishment and Ryan's contributions, Eastern New Mexico University will rename the broadcast center in his honor during KENW's 50th anniversary celebration on Saturday, Oct. 26, at 2 p.m.

ENMU will host a special ribbon-cutting ceremony on the patio at the newly named Duane W. Ryan broadcast center at 2:30 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 26. Following the ribbon cutting, there will be a public reception and tours of the KENW studios.

La Sociedad para Las Artes at New Mexico State University will host a public reading event for alumna Melanie Sweeney as part of the Nelson-Boswell Reading Series, which invites visiting writers to NMSU to share their work with the community. The series is named in honor of writers Antonya Nelson and Robert Boswell, who began their teaching careers at NMSU.

Melanie Sweeney, a writer of contemporary romance. She will read from her debut novel "Take Me Home." Sweeney's next title, "Where You're Planted," will be released next summer. An NMSU alumna, Sweeny received her Master of Fine Arts degree in creative writing. NMSU MFA student Mariana Franzon Erazo will read from her thesis prior to Sweeney's reading.

The Borderland and Ethnic Studies department at New Mexico State University has begun an interdisciplinary research-art project, "Shahadat Theatrical Readings," based on Manal Hamzeh's 2020 book, "Women Resisting Sexual Violence and the Egyptian Revolution: Arab Feminist Testimonies."

The book is a result of eight years of relational and on-the-ground research that she started in 2012 between Las Cruces, Amman, Jordan, and Cairo, Egypt. In the book, Hamzeh's scholarship refutes Western imperialist feminist narratives about the Revolution and Arab women, and legitimizing Arabyya research methodologies of shahadat and haki –public political testimonies and trust-based intimate conversations.

The New Mexico State University Board of Regents will present alumnus Gale Harvey, class of 1962, with an honorary Doctor of Science degree in recognition of the decades of support he has provided to the university and his contributions to science. NMSU Interim President Mónica Torres will present the award at the NMSU commencement ceremonies starting at 6 p.m. on Friday, December 13 at the Pan American Center.

"We proudly honor Gale Harvey for his outstanding service and support to both the university and the Foundation," said Sylvia Y. Acosta, CEO of the NMSU Foundation. "This honorary doctorate reflects his ongoing dedication to advancing education and his legacy of generosity in supporting our Aggies. He's helped countless students achieve their dreams, and we are truly grateful."