Other NM universities announcements

The Hunt Center for Entrepreneurship at New Mexico State University's Arrowhead Center is now accepting applications for its online GenAI Fundraising Excellence Sprint accelerator, designed for tech startups based in New Mexico and the Borderplex region.

The Hunt Center for Entrepreneurship is committed to strengthening the regional entrepreneurial ecosystem by empowering communities to engage in entrepreneurship, improving access to early-stage investment opportunities, and inspiring students to develop innovative products and services for the commercial market.

New Mexico State University's Arrowhead Center and the City of Santa Fe office of Economic Development have launched the Santa Fe Small Business Navigator program, one of New Mexico's most comprehensive networks of service resources for small business development.

The program is funded by the City of Santa Fe and powered by Arrowhead Center. It provides small business owners, founders and entrepreneurs in Santa Fe access to confidential, no-cost services such as one-on-one advising, expert training, mentoring opportunities,and microgrant programs.

Walk into the O'Donnell Hall lobby on New Mexico State University's Las Cruces campus, and you'll be transported back in time to witness three watershed moments in southern New Mexico history. 

A new hand-painted mural adorns much of the walls throughout the expansive lobby, created over the fall 2024 semester and completed in January 2025 by a group of local artists as the latest installment in the Borderlands Mural Project run by the Department Borderlands and Ethnic Studies Department, or BEST.

New Mexico State University Astronomy Assistant Professor Juie Shetye and her Ph.D. student Aman Priyadarshi Kumar are driving a new collaboration that bridges international teams and two solar observatories.

The Dunn Solar Telescope in Sunspot, New Mexico observes specific regions of the sun in exceptional detail, focusing on features too small for most other solar telescopes to see. In space, India's groundbreaking solar space mission Aditya-L1 makes continuous and unobstructed observations of the entire disk of the sun. Shetye and Kumar saw an opportunity to bring the data from these two instruments together to streamline solar research and build a relationship between NMSU and India's growing solar research community.

Filmmaker and educator Julia Smith spent the past six years restoring and digitizing the films of the late Orville Wanzer, a pioneering yet under-recognized filmmaker from the 60s, 70s and 80s whose influence helped shape the evolution of "the modern western" and independent avant-garde cinema in the United States, particularly in the borderland region.

Over the next couple of months, Smith is looking for support to complete her documentary about Wanzer and his film legacy.

The Borderlands and Ethnic Studies Research Center at New Mexico State University has launched a new podcast. 

"Jaggie Sounds" centers storytelling and histories from peoples in the borderlands' region. The podcast aims to uplift voices and peoples' experiences from colonias, barrios, borders and classrooms. The podcast's name honors the borderlands' majestic, native jaguar and blends it with NMSU's beloved agricultural/Aggie identity. 

Anita Lara, facilitator of the Borderlands and Ethnic Studies' Oral Histories Project, hosts the podcast in a studio housed in the BEST Research Center, part of the College of Health, Education and Social Transformation.

Award-winning author to give public reading at NMSU Sept. 5

As part of the Nelson-Boswell Reading Series, La Sociedad para Las Artes will host a public reading by award-winning novelist Rafael Frumkin.

Frumkin will read from her new short story collection "Bugsy & Other Stories" which includes five genre-defying stories celebrating a wide variety of human experiences. Frumkin, a former creative writing professor who is now a full-time writer, will give her reading at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Sept. 5 in NMSU's CMI Theater in Milton Hall, Room 17. A free reception will follow the reading where copies of "Bugsy & Other Stories" will be available for purchase.

Four faculty members in various departments in New Mexico State University's College of Health, Education and Social Transformation recently received funding for their research projects as part of the college's Emerging Scholars initiative.

The initiative began in 2016 to support and promote innovative research efforts of untenured, tenure-track and research faculty that will advance scientific knowledge or creative works in a specific field or area of professional activity and develop skills to be successful at securing external funding. The initiative provides financial support for each selected research project with the condition that the project must be completed within two years.