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May 12, 2009
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Students learn the importance, yummy possibilities of bugsThe line of students first approached the stage of the Gerald Thomas Auditorium with caution, curiously looking at the bug meal laid out before them - chocolate covered grasshoppers and crickets, fried mealworms - salted and spicy-Cajun-flavored, cans of beetle larvae, a candy sucker with a wasp in it, another hard-candy treat with a scorpion in it - looking like one of those paper weights you buy in a Mexican curio market. And in a small sandwich bag - the contents move. read more... |
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NMSU Board of Regents OKs lease plans to relocate Albuquerque offices, classroomsThe New Mexico State University Board of Regents today approved plans and the cost of leasing new offices and classroom space in Albuquerque, which will allow NMSU to expand its footprint in the region, offering programs that are not in competition with the University of New Mexico. read more... |
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Cooperative Extension Service administers program to help TANF recipients join the workforceGetting back into the workforce is tough, especially when the economy is down. For recipients of Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) financial support they need a partner in the quest for employment. read more... |
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NMSU Board of Regents proceeds with presidential searchThe Board of Regents of New Mexico State University is moving forward with a search for its next president. At a meeting of the board today, May 8, the regents announced that a search firm and committee chair have been selected to begin the process. read more... |
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Boren appointed as associate dean and director of Cooperative Extension ServiceJon Boren has been appointed associate dean and director of the Cooperative Extension Service, said College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences Dean Lowell Catlett. read more... |
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Two NMSU biology professors receive Education Fellow in Life Sciences awardThrough workshops and innovative teaching ventures, Graciela Unguez, associate professor, and Michèle Shuster, assistant professor, in the Department of Biology at New Mexico State University's College of Arts and Sciences hope to share teaching ideas with others in their department and across campus to transform the science education experience of students at the university level. read more... |
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Chemistry professor receives national, prestigious Dreyfus research awardNew Mexico State University associate professor Jeremy Smith in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry was recently selected as a 2009 Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar awardee for early-career chemists in the U.S. read more... |
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SpotlightUse it up. Wear it out. Make it do. This is an old adage that Peter Skelton takes to heart with his interest in sustainability and how people can minimize their resource footprint. read more... |