Other NM universities announcements

New Mexico State University recently brought together several influential business, civic and philanthropic leaders from across the nation to Las Cruces via the President's Roundtable, a select advisory group that reflects the university's commitment to engaging leaders who are shaping the future of industry, education and communities across the region.

The President's Roundtable provides a forum for NMSU President Valerio Ferme to reflect on strategic priorities, including research expansion, workforce development, industry partnerships, student success and philanthropic investment. Members also serve as ambassadors for the university, helping connect NMSU with policy and economic networks, emerging opportunities and strategic partnerships that advance its mission and extend its impact.

New Mexico State University's College of Business will celebrate accomplished alumni, valued corporate partners and community leaders whose careers and contributions have made a lasting impact at the 2026 Hall of Fame banquet. 

The event will take place at 5:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 1, at the Las Cruces Convention Center, 680 E. University Ave. This year's Hall of Fame honorees are Leslie Moorhead Cervantes '86, O. Dino Cervantes '85 and Jim P. Snee '89. The College of Business will also present the Corporate Traders' Award to New Mexico Mutual. 

"I'm very honored to recognize Leslie, Dino and Jim this week and to celebrate their accomplishments. Three amazing people, three amazing careers – three amazing Aggies!" said Bryan Ashenbaum, dean of the College of Business. 

New Mexico State University will celebrate the completion of Alumni Pond with a grand opening ceremony from 10 to 11 a.m. Thursday, Oct. 1, on the south side of the pond. 

The ceremony will mark the completion of the project and welcome the NMSU community back to the pond, a campus gathering space located in the heart of the university.

The event will include brief remarks from NMSU and community representatives, as well as an opportunity for students, faculty, staff, alumni and visitors to gather and celebrate the completed project. 

NM FAST has launched a travel stipend program designed to help New Mexico-based startups attend national Small Business Innovation Research and Small Business Technology Transfer conferences. The program provides reimbursement for eligible conference-related travel expenses, giving founders opportunities to connect directly with federal agency program managers and strengthen their SBIR/STTR strategies. 

The stipend program is available to New Mexico-based startups that participated in NM FAST programming during 2026, including accelerator cohorts, workshops, SBIR 101 webinars, one-on-one advisory sessions, and other NM FAST services. Founders who have received support from NM FAST are encouraged to apply. 

New Mexico State University's Graduate School will launch a new annual initiative, "The Transformative Power of Graduate Education," this fall. The event will highlight the impact of graduate education and research in addressing complex challenges and advancing the public good. 

The inaugural event will take place from 2 to 3 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 30, in the Corbett Center Auditorium on the NMSU Las Cruces campus. The event is free and open to the public. 

Mounted on the wall at the El Paso Museum of Art are three eight-foot suspended gardens, their colorful flowers made from recycled medical imaging film, with a "portal" resting in the center. 

The installation, titled "Dislocations," explores the space between growth and collapse, marking the first fully collaborative work produced by New Mexico State University art professor emerita Julia Barello and her colleague and friend, Craig Cully, an NMSU painting and drawing professor, alongside his wife, Kelly Leslie, as Cully + Leslie Studio. The exhibition opened Sept. 24 and will remain on display in the museum until 2029. 

Each of the three installations contains Barello's flowers made from X-ray imaging and dyed in various colors. In the center of each installation lies Cully's 24-by-24-inch painting. Together, the three pieces explore how individuals and communities exist within spaces shaped by connection, division and change. 

Over the next five years, a National Science Foundation CAREER award of nearly $600,000 will support New Mexico State University physicist Ludi Miao's research on quantum materials that could build future revolutionary technologies.

The CAREER award is the National Science Foundation's most prestigious award for early-career faculty. It recognizes tenure-track assistant professors who effectively integrate excellent scientific research with innovative educational leadership.

Miao works with materials with exotic properties, meaning behaviors that are directly driven by the weird, rule-breaking laws of the quantum scale rather than the predictable rules of everyday physics. Some of materials that he is studying are magnetic and some are superconductors, which are both useful for ultra-fast and energy-efficient quantum computers, advanced power grids and medical sensors that can map magnetic fields with extreme precision.

The Hunt Center for Entrepreneurship at New Mexico State University's Arrowhead Center is now accepting applications for the 2027 cohort of the Fourth Industrial Revolution Economy Venture Fellows program, a competitive fellowship that prepares university students for careers in venture capital, startups, and innovation-driven organizations. 

The FIRE Venture Fellows program provides undergraduate and graduate students from NMSU, The University of Texas at El Paso, and other institutions across the Borderplex region with hands-on experience in venture capital, startup evaluation, and early-stage investment decision-making.