Other NM universities announcements

In recognition of Military Appreciation Month, New Mexico State University Global Campus reaffirms its ongoing commitment to serving military-affiliated students and veterans across the globe through flexible, affordable, and supportive online education.

NMSU Global Campus offers 90+ accredited programs, 100% online with a fixed tuition rate of $250 per credit hour for active military. In addition, active-duty, National Guard, and Reserve service members, military dependents, and veteran students have access to the university's Military and Veteran Programs, a comprehensive and robust support system designed to guide military-affiliated learners from enrollment to graduation, no matter where they are located. 

When alumni return to campus and step inside the updated New Mexico State University Professional Golfers' Association Golf Management program golf lab, now filled with the sound of swings, data readouts and simulated championship courses, the reaction is often the same: This is not the space they remember.

In fall 2025, the PGA Golf Management program unveiled a reimagined, state-of-the-art lab featuring two Trackman 4 simulator bays in Guthrie Hall. What began more than a decade ago as a single-unit space has evolved into a high-tech learning environment where students can practice year-round, analyze every aspect of their swing with industry-leading data and simulate rounds on world-class courses.

The dust storms of the 1930s witnessed swirling black blizzards so dense that people could not see their own hands in front of their faces, completely obliterating the sun for hours.

The Southwest dust storms in 2025 reached intensities not seen since the Dust Bowl, with El Paso, Texas experiencing its most intense and frequent storms since 1936 due to intense drought and high winds. By early May 2025, El Paso had recorded 26 dust storms, far exceeding its annual average of 2.2.

New Mexico State University photography professor Bruce Berman braved these haboobs of the borderland to document the experience, juxtaposing his images with those taken during the Dust Bowl of the 1930s and turning his observations into a book titled "A History of Dust."

Daylight saving time isn't just a seasonal inconvenience – it may also pose significant neuropsychological risks for the hundreds of millions of people worldwide who experience biannual clock shifts, especially those living with chronic mental illnesses. 

That's according to a major new study by a team of researchers from New Mexico State University's College of Health, Education and Social Transformation and the University of Nevada, Las Vegas's Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine.

Drawing on more than 60 studies worldwide spanning chronobiology, psychiatry, neuroscience and public health, the researchers have concluded that the one-hour time shift caused by daylight saving time acts as a population-wide circadian stressor – and that people with depression, bipolar disorder, anxiety disorders, PTSD, ADHD and psychotic disorders face amplified risks during the days and weeks following a clock change. The study was published in the journal Brain Sciences.

Giving New Mexico State University freshmen the tools to become leaders on campus and beyond was the idea behind the 1888 Leadership Institute. Established in August 2025, the new leadership program concluded its first year in May 2026. 

A priority for NMSU President Valerio Ferme, the 1888 Leadership Initiative serves as one of the foundations of student success at NMSU with initiative graduates taking student leadership roles and making a positive impact to campus life. The program focuses on fundamental principles essential for being successful Aggies: advocacy, grit, gratitude, integrity, execution and service. 

Shayla Milian Morales, who completed her freshman year, appreciated how participating in the 1888 Leadership Initiative pushed her to try new things. 

WHAT: 2026 Animas and San Juan Water Sheds Conference.

WHO: New Mexico State University, New Mexico Water Resources Research Institute, New Mexico Environment Department and San Juan Watershed Group, Inc.

WHEN: 8 a.m. Wednesday, May 27, and Thursday, May 28.

WHERE: San Juan College School of Energy, Farmington, New Mexico.

Mosquitoes do more than inflict an itchy bite – through the transmission of diseases, they are the world's deadliest animal to humans. Researchers working to control the population of these invasive species need access to a steady supply of food for their lab specimens, and a new meal formula created by New Mexico State University researchers will provide them with just that.

In 2015, biology professor Immo Hansen began working with Ph.D. student Kristina Gonzalez on a meal recipe that worked well for the Aedes aegypti mosquito, which transmits yellow fever, zika and dengue. They named their recipe "SkitoSnack." Since then, Gonzalez has earned her Ph.D. in biology from NMSU and Anjali Karki, a current biology Ph.D. student, joined the SkitoSnack project.

At the heart of New Mexico State University's Las Cruces campus, a tower rises above the profiles of surrounding buildings, standing sentinel and solemn as throngs of chatting students pass by each day on their way to class.

Once part of the university's Quesenberry Field, the tower was built as a memorial to Aggies lost to the Second World War – the culmination of a remembrance effort begun by the university's longtime registrar, Era Rentfrow, who made it her personal duty to reach out to these young men's families and collect their portraits to memorialize their sacrifice.