Non-Local News Releases
This category will feature news releases from out-of-area government agencies and representatives, as well as events that are not taking place in the four-county area of Grant, Catron, Hidalgo or Luna. For local events please visit Local News Releases.
NMSU Regents professor, biomedical researcher named 2023 IP Award recipient
- Category: Non-Local News Releases Non-Local News Releases
- Published: 27 April 2023 27 April 2023
A New Mexico State University Regents professor and biomedical researcher named by Stanford University as among the top 2 percent of scientists worldwide is the recipient of the 2023 Intellectual Property Award presented by NMSU’s Arrowhead Center and the Office of Research, Creativity and Strategic Initiatives.
The award was presented during a ceremony Wednesday, April 26, at Arrowhead Center, and recognizes NMSU faculty or staff who have developed intellectual property and demonstrated work to realize societal, industrial and commercial benefits.
Jeffrey Arterburn is a faculty member in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, and is a co-owner of seven patents of research tools and therapeutics related to treatments of diseases including cancer. One patent was the result of research collaborations by Arterburn, Eric Prossnitz from the University of New Mexico and colleagues at the UNM Cancer Center.
State Police Checkpoints and Saturation Patrols in Counties across the State in May 2023
- Category: Non-Local News Releases Non-Local News Releases
- Published: 27 April 2023 27 April 2023
Statewide, NM - State Police will be conducting sobriety checkpoints, saturation patrols, and registration, insurance, and driver's license checkpoints in all New Mexico counties during the month of May 2023.
We are bringing awareness to these events to reduce impaired driving-related fatalities through continued media attention and intensive advertising.
These checkpoints are helping to change society's attitude about driving while under the influence of intoxicating liquor or drugs.
Hundreds of lives could be saved each year if every driver had the courage to make the right decision not to drive impaired.
Who: New Mexico State Police
NMCGA Third Annual Heritage Buckle Contest
- Category: Non-Local News Releases Non-Local News Releases
- Published: 27 April 2023 27 April 2023
Deadline Approaching: May 12, 2023
By: Gracie Hooten, NMCGA
New Mexico Cattle Growers’ Association extends a congratulations to all of last year’s countywide winners and is also proud to announce the opening of their third annual Heritage Contest. The contest aims to tell the stories of New Mexico’s youth involved in agriculture and highlights the importance of generational ties to land and livestock.
Youth, ages 9 to 15 years, in all 33 counties of New Mexico are eligible to apply, but previous winners will not be selected to receive honors. Entries require a 200 to 500 word essay response to the prompt: “How would you like to continue your family’s agriculture heritage to better your community?”
Essay submission deadline is May 12, 2023. NMCGA board members, county fair board members, and award sponsors will collaborate in deciding the final winners from each county.
DVS Relocates Albuquerque Office
- Category: Non-Local News Releases Non-Local News Releases
- Published: 27 April 2023 27 April 2023
New Location: 4801 Indian School Road N.E./Bldg. #2, 2nd Floor
(Albuquerque) –The New Mexico Department of Veterans’ Services (DVS) has moved its Albuquerque satellite office to a new location: the Pinetree Corporate Center, at 4801 Indian School Rd N.E./Building #2, on the second floor.
The office is about a quarter mile south of the Interstate 40, off the San Mateo Blvd. exit, and next to the HB & Lucille Horn Family YMCA Center.
The move, said DVS Cabinet Secretary Donnie Quintana, provides easier access to a more central location for veterans and their families in the Albuquerque metro area. He said the new location also provides more room for the DVS field services division, the four DVS Albuquerque-based veterans service officers, the DVS Women Veterans Program, the DVS Health Care Coordination Division, the New Mexico Veterans Business Outreach Center (VBOC), and the New Mexico State Approving Agency (SAA).
Newly renamed autism diagnostic center, lecture hall at NMSU unveiled
- Category: Non-Local News Releases Non-Local News Releases
- Published: 26 April 2023 26 April 2023
The New Mexico State University College of Health, Education and Social Transformation Tuesday hosted a ribbon cutting for the newly named Papen-Aprendamos Autism Diagnostic Center in O’Donnell Hall, as well as the newly named Aprendamos Intervention Team, P.A. Lecture Hall.
Abel Covarrubias, who provided major funding for the Papen-Aprendamos Autism Diagnostic Center, attended the event, along with former state Sen. Mary Kay Papen, who first proposed the facility through legislation.
“It has always been my goal to make a difference in the lives of others, and creating this center is clearly a dream come true for giving back and helping those in need,” Covarrubias said. He is the founder and CEO of the Aprendamos Family of Services, which provides early intervention services for children age 3 and younger and their families, as well as additional services for individuals and families of all ages.
Civilian Conservation Corps in NM subject of lecture
- Category: Non-Local News Releases Non-Local News Releases
- Published: 26 April 2023 26 April 2023
What: The history of the Civilian Conservation Corps in New Mexico is the topic of the next Culture Series presentation at the New Mexico Farm & Ranch Heritage Museum in Las Cruces. The title for the May 11 presentation is: "Coming of Age in the Great Depression: The Civilian Conservation Corps Experience in New Mexico, 1933-1942." It is based on Dr. Richard Melzer’s book of the same name. Admission is free.
Who: Dr. Richard Melzer is the speaker. Dr. Melzer is a Professor of History at the University of New Mexico’s Valencia Campus. He has published and lectured on a wide variety of topics in 20th Century New Mexico history, including his books “Breakdown: How the Secret of the Atomic Bomb was Stolen During World War II” (2000), “Coming of Age in the Great Depression: The Civilian Conservation Corps Experience in New Mexico, 1933-42” (2000) and “Buried Treasures: Famous and Unusual Gravesites in New Mexico History” (2007). His publications have appeared in New Mexico Magazine, New Mexico Historical Review, Western Historical Quarterly, El Palacio, and Journal of the West. He has been UNM’s outstanding Teacher of the Year and is a past-President of the Historical Society of New Mexico. The monthly Culture Series is organized and hosted by the Friends of the New Mexico Farm & Ranch Heritage Museum.
When: Thursday, May 11, at 7 p.m. The Culture Series presentations are held on the second Thursday of each month.
Where: In the Theater at the New Mexico Farm & Ranch Heritage Museum, 4100 Dripping Springs Road in Las Cruces.
Why: Dr. Melzer will present how Civilian Conservation Corp (CCC) projects impacted New Mexico, its resources, and its population during the Great Depression. The CCC was one of the first New Deal programs, begun by President Franklin Roosevelt in 1933 and continuing through 1942. During the depth of The Depression, it employed 54,000 young men in conservation projects across New Mexico. Melzer also will describe the value of the CCC in World War II and the post-war era.
New Mexico Reforestation Center receives $8.5 million in state funding
- Category: Non-Local News Releases Non-Local News Releases
- Published: 25 April 2023 25 April 2023
A year after catastrophic wildfires scorched more than 900,000 acres across New Mexico in a single fire season, a proposed center designed to meet the state’s current and future reforestation needs is one step closer to becoming a reality.
Earlier this month, New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham signed a spending bill for the upcoming fiscal year that earmarked $8.5 million to kickstart the development of the New Mexico Reforestation Center and $1.5 million for revegetation needs in the state.
The funding marks a major milestone in the yearslong effort to create a regional center that would significantly increase reforestation capacity across the Southwest in the critical areas of seed collection and storage, nursery production, and planting – and bring forest management into the 21st century.
A proposal from the team of collaborators developing the NMRC calls for completing the estimated $65 million center over four phases.
University Art Museum and Department of Art to showcase three new exhibitions by NMSU art students
- Category: Non-Local News Releases Non-Local News Releases
- Published: 25 April 2023 25 April 2023
Three new exhibitions in Devasthali Hall at New Mexico State University will feature works by both Bachelor of Fine Arts students and Master of Fine Arts students.
“Epic Coalescence,” “Sneak Peek” and “Echoes of an Empty Space” will share an opening reception at 5:30 p.m. Friday, April 28 at the UAM inside Devasthali Hall near the intersection of University and Solano. The reception is free and open to the public.
Both the “Epic Coalescence” and “Sneak Peak” exhibits will be open until May 13 and “Echoes of an Empty Space” will be on display until May 20.
“Epic Coalescence” will feature the works of Bachelor of Fine Arts students Zoe Barnes, Jeffery P. Colin, Emily Fernandez, Stefanie Gutierrez, Victoria Hubbard, Olivia Juedeman, Amber Martinez, Joseph Reser and Madylyn Stine in the Mullennix Bridge Gallery and the Bleachers, both located on the first floor of Devasthali Hall.