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Donors to New Mexico State University have established more than 1,600 named endowment funds to support scholarships, which have a significant impact on students' ability to attend college.
Donors to New Mexico State University have established more than 1,600 named endowment funds to support scholarships, which have a significant impact on students' ability to attend college.
An endowment secures NMSU's future by creating a permanent fund that generates annual income to support the scholarship, professorship, academic chair or program specified by the donor. It also creates a strong bond between NMSU and the individual donors that enriches the lives of all involved.
NMSU pays a 4 percent annual return based on the market value of the endowment. The current endowment threshold of $10,000 only generates about $400, which has limited impact against today's college costs. In response to the need for increased impact, the endowment minimum will increase to $15,000 beginning July 1, 2012.
Endowments can be funded with cash, appreciated securities, credit card, NMSU payroll deduction or bank electronic funds transfers. Any endowment established before July 1 can be grandfathered in at the $10,000 level. Gift agreements executed prior to that date, but not yet fully-funded, would also qualify under the $10,000 level.
To find out how you can create an endowment, contact Barbara Wise, Director, Major Gifts, bwise@nmsu.edu.
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Judy Gray Johnson and Bill Sheriff will be awarded honorary doctor of letters degrees at New Mexico State University’s spring 2012 commencement ceremonies scheduled for 9 a.m. and 2 p.m. Saturday, May 12, at the Pan American Center. Tickets are not required. The Pan American Center will open an hour prior to each ceremony.
New Mexico State University finished in fifth place for a second year in a row in the Grand Champion category of the 2012 RecycleMania competition. RecycleMania is a recycling competition between 605 schools representing all 50 U.S. states, the District of Columbia, five Canadian provinces and one school in Great Britain, said Alec Cooley of RecycleMania and director of Recycling Programs for Keep America Beautiful.
Don’t forget to BYOB – bring your own water bottle, that is – next time you are on the New Mexico State University Las Cruces campus. NMSU Plumber Javier Sanchez installed a donated Halsey Taylor HAC Water Cooler with HydroBoost bottle filling station in the Activity Center the week before spring break, in an effort to make the NMSU campus more sustainable.
At a special meeting April 5, the New Mexico State University Board of Regents approved a 3.7-percent increase in tuition and fees for resident undergraduate students at the main campus in Las Cruces for 2012-2013. “New Mexico State has done an extremely good job of living within our means during these very difficult times. These recommendations represent the right direction to help our students, as well as our faculty and staff,” said Regent Laura Conniff.
New Mexico State University’s College of Engineering has partnered with the College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences to create a series of short videos that promote renewable energy. The videos – each about four minutes in length - are available on the NMSU website and YouTube.
New Mexico State University’s education graduate school program is ranked as one of the top 125 programs in the nation, coming in at number 106 on the U.S. News & World Report 2013 Best Graduate Schools rankings. NMSU came out ahead of area peer schools like Texas Tech University ranked at 130 and University of Texas at El Paso coming in at 174. The University of New Mexico tied NMSU’s rank of 106.
When the sun goes down, researchers and staff at New Mexico State University’s Apache Point Observatory go into high gear, mapping the universe one pinpoint at a time for the Sloan Digital Sky Survey III project. The work can be tedious, but the operations team reached a milestone recently by observing a record 103,000 spectra in March for the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey.
The New Mexico State University College of Engineering’s Engineering New Mexico Resource Network is offering middle and high school students the chance to compete in a robotics competition designing and building a custom remote-controlled robot. This year’s competition will focus on space applications for robotics.
New Mexico State University’s Arrowhead Center, the university’s economic development hub, is accepting applications from small business owners and entrepreneurs for its Entrepreneur Venture Program taking place this fall. The deadline to submit an application is May 14. Those selected will receive specialized support and resources to help their businesses reach the next level of development.
Studio G, operated through the Entrepreneurship Institute at NMSU’s economic development hub, the Arrowhead Center, is the first business incubator in New Mexico targeted toward college students at any level from all academic disciplines. Full-time NMSU students and alumni who graduated no more than five years ago have until May 23 to apply for the limited amount of slots still available at Studio G.
A new mental health care clinic aimed at serving needy residents throughout Dona Ana County is about to be launched through the joint efforts of New Mexico State University’s College of Education and College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences.
New Mexico State University celebrated at a Research Rally Thursday two faculty members who have each received major project funding through a prestigious National Science Foundation award that supports the efforts of junior faculty.
NMSU recently released the names of the eight graduating students named outstanding seniors and two names for outstanding graduate students. The awards recognize students for their leadership, participation in university and community events, honors received and grade point average.
Nine years ago, Shuguang Deng left a successful career in private industry as a process engineer to come to New Mexico State University with the purpose of conducting research on energy, the environment, and water. His efforts toward that end have earned him worldwide recognition, as the first recipient of a Fulbright Distinguished Chair in Energy Conservation.
A New Mexico State University undergraduate majoring in biochemistry is one of only three New Mexico college students to be awarded a Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship for 2012. Charles Margarit was selected from a pool of more than 1,100 mathematics, science and engineering students nominated for the scholarship. More than 250 students from across the nation were awarded Goldwater Scholarships. Of the three New Mexico students selected for the prize, Margarit is the only one attending a university in the state.
In the middle of this fictional fray was New Mexico State University’s Model United Nations team. The team, which this year represented Lebanon, once again scored high marks at the National Model U.N. competition held earlier this month in New York City. NMSU won an outstanding delegation award, which is the top prize, as well as two outstanding position papers. In addition, three members of the team scored outstanding delegate awards.
The Domenici Institute for Public Policy has awarded its first round of fellowships to seven New Mexico State University faculty members. The Domenici Institute was established on the main campus of NMSU in 2009 and seeks to be a regional leader in the area of public policy analysis.
New Mexico State University’s Alpha Chi Alpha was a big winner at a recent conference in New York City where they competed against more than 400 Alpha Phi Sigma chapters for awards and cash prizes. The criminal justice students won four individual awards, a chapter award, an adviser grant as well as $2,450. They also made it all the way to the semi-finals in a knowledge competition.
Nathanael Macias, NMSU electrical engineering major, will not graduate with his bachelor’s degree until May, but has already had two summers of experience interning at Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory. Macias is from El Paso and graduated from Chapin High School. After graduation he will return to work at Johns Hopkins under a GEM Fellowship.
Two New Mexico State University doctoral students’ theories could help robots solve their own problems without much information. NMSU computer science students Khoi Nguyen and Vien Tran have been awarded “Best Student Paper” at the International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling for their work with software programs that solve problems and accomplish things on behalf of humans.
On Feb. 25, 2012, the World Health Organization removed India from its list of polio-endemic countries, meaning that no new cases of the debilitating and deadly disease had been recorded on the subcontinent for a year. No small feat in a nation of 1.21 billion people.
The New Mexico State University track and field team concluded the Michael Johnson/Baylor Invitational on Saturday, April 21, with yet another new school record from junior LaSasha Aldredge. Aldredge broke another all-time school record in the 400m during the outdoor season. Aldredge placed sixth overall with a time of 54.03, which eclipsed her previous record she set earlier this season.
The New Mexico State baseball team (30-11, 7-2 WAC) is ranked in at least one poll for the fourth consecutive week after sweeping Western Athletic Conference opponent Louisiana Tech this past weekend.
The 2011-12 Academic All-WAC men and women's basketball, men's and women's indoor track and field, women's swimming and diving and gymnastics teams have been announced. New Mexico State placed 37 winter student-athletes on to the list.
Shin, a junior from Maple Ridge, British Columbia (Thomas Haney Secondary School), posted two top-10 finishes last week. At the Wyoming Cowboy Classic in Scottsdale, Ariz., Shin tied for ninth place with a 5-under par 205 (66-70-69). He then followed that up with 2-under par 208 (68-69-71) to tie for second place at the Western Intercollegiate over this past weekend.
"I am pleased to hear that coach Menzies has withdrawn his name as a candidate for the Colorado State job," Athletics Director Dr. McKinley Boston said. "Based on the continued success of our program and the academic success of our student-athletes, I will start the process of sitting down with coach Menzies to review his current contract."