Other NM universities announcements

Nathan Billman graduated this month with a degree in animation from New Mexico State University. Abril Delgado Quintana will graduate next semester. Although the two come from different backgrounds, each found a home in NMSU's Creative Media Institute and its nationally ranked animation program.

NMSU's animation program continues to be ranked among the top programs in the country for the 14th year in a row. Animation Career Review evaluated more than 200 programs across the United States. In the 2025 rankings list, NMSU's animation program rose to 17th nationally among public schools and colleges. The program remains ranked seventh regionally and first in New Mexico. 

Portales, NM – May 21, 2025– Eastern New Mexico University is hosting educational and athletic summer camps and programs on the University campus in Portales, New Mexico.

"ENMU is excited to again offer numerous camps and activities for the community this summer," said James Johnston, ENMU Chancellor. "Through the expertise of our faculty and staff, we cover a broad range of interests for all ages and look forward to seeing our community on campus."

ENMU will be hosting various educational and summer camps through the Athletics Department, the Office of Distance Learning, the Golden Student Success Center, the College of Education and Technology and the College of Fine Arts. The programs will include: 

Each year, New Mexico State University's Agricultural Experiment Station hosts several field days at its science centers across the state. This year's first field day will take place June 4 at the Fabián García Science Center in Las Cruces.

This year, the center will highlight topics such as onion breeding/harvest, winemaking, guar, medicinal plants in southern New Mexico, chile pepper breeding and more.

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. Lunch will be provided at 11:30 a.m. following tours of the center's research plots.

The Scale Up New Mexico program, hosted by Arrowhead Center at New Mexico State University and supported in part by the U.S. Economic Development Administration, successfully concluded its GenAI Go-to-Market Success Sprint, a six-week accelerator designed to equip New Mexico-based tech startups with the tools and strategies needed to integrate Generative AI into their sales and marketing efforts.

The program, which ran from April 10 to May 15, provided entrepreneurs with hands-on training in leveraging AI for market research, customer segmentation, messaging, content creation and sales automation. Participants engaged in a comprehensive learning experience, combining interactive workshops, personalized mentoring and real-time feedback from industry experts.

After an extensive national search, the College of Health, Education and Social Transformation at New Mexico State University selected professor and associate dean Rick Marlatt as the next dean effective Friday, May 16.

Marlatt currently serves associate dean for the NMSU Graduate School and previously served as director of the NMSU School of Teacher Preparation, Administration and Leadership. He joined NMSU in 2017 and has held several key leadership roles across the institution.

"The Ritual," a horror film starring Al Pacino and produced by New Mexico State University Creative Media Institute professor Ross Marks, will premier Thursday, June 5 at the Allen Theatres Cineport 10 at an invitation-only special screening hosted by Marks. The film will release in theaters nationwide on Friday, June 6.

The Ritual" features actors Al Pacino, Dan Stevens, Ashley Greene, Abigail Cowen, and Patricia Heaton. The film is written and directed by Las Cruces International Film Festival alum David Midell. The film is about two priests, one in crisis with his faith and the other confronting a turbulent past, who must overcome their differences to perform a risky exorcism. The film is based on a true story about the last officially ordained exorcism on U.S. soil.

The "E Pluribus Unum: Mogollon" exhibition at the University Art Museum (UAM) at New Mexico State University will feature more than 800 portraits collected from residents across New Mexico by artists Matthew Chase-Daniel and Jerry Wellman during a two-month period last fall.

The UAM is partnering with Santa Fe-based Axle Contemporary to present the sixth and final phase of their project, which is focused on communities south of Interstate 40 and west of Interstate 25. The artists captured portraits of residents from Belen, Deming, Lordsburg, Columbus, Truth or Consequences, Hatch, Socorro, Magdalena, Pie Town, Zuni, Pine Hill, Grants, Acoma, Las Cruces and Silver City.

Alejandro Gomez, a senior Honors student at New Mexico State University studying wildlife ecology, has been awarded the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship, which provides three years of support over a five-year fellowship period for the graduate education of individuals who have demonstrated potential for significant research achievements in STEM or STEM education.

Gomez, who is also a McNair Scholar, will graduate this week and continue his education at NMSU, where he will study for a master's degree under the advisement of Obed Hernández-Gómez, assistant professor of wildlife disease ecology in the College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences. Their research will focus on disease dynamics in native and non-native ungulates in New Mexico, exploring parasite and bacterial load and presence. Ungulates are any of a group of typically plant-eating four-footed hoofed mammals.