March 4, 2013 by Justin Bannister, NMSU News Center Tom Shockley, CEO of El Paso Electric, will visit the New Mexico State University College of Business Tuesday, March 5. During the visit, he’ll give a special presentation to students in a regulatory policy class focusing on electric utilities. “We are very fortune to have Mr. Shockley speak to one of our public utility regulation class More »

February 1, 2013. Retrieved online February 1, 2013 from Art Ruiloba for the Las Cruces Bulletin Center for Public Utilities contributes $53,000 and offers donor challenge For the Las Cruces Bulletin The formation of a new scholarship is under way at New Mexico State University. A gift totaling $53,000 from the Center for Public Utilities will kick start an Endowed Graduate Scholarship a More »

January 24, 2013 by Art Ruiloba, NMSU News Center The formation of a new scholarship is under way at New Mexico State University. A gift totaling $53,000 from the Center for Public Utilities will “kick-start” an Endowed Graduate Scholarship at NMSU’s College of Business. The scholarship will assist students pursuing a master of arts in economics. The center’s goal is to raise more th More »

September 14, 2009. Retrieved online September 9, 2009 from Lindsey Gerdes, BusinessWeek "Graduates lucky enough to land a job may find the prospect of responsibility and rapid advancement surprisingly strong.... "Miranda Azzam's title at Aflac's (AFL) Columbus (Ga.) headquarters is college recruiter, but that doesn't begin to describe what she does for the $16.6 billion insurer." Read th More »

August 28, 2009 by Louie Calderon NMSU NewsCenter In the past three years, New Mexico State University’s Housing and Residential Life has made several moves toward sustainability. The latest is scrapping old, energy-wasting appliances and bringing in new, more energy-efficient models – a move that has earned NMSU an $88,000 rebate from El Paso Electric Company. The rebate check will be pres More »

August 21, 2009 by Mario Montes NMSU News Center An impressive list of keynote speakers topped by U.S. Secretary of Energy Steven Chu; Van Jones, Special Advisor for Green Jobs at the White House Council on Environmental Quality; New Mexico’s Lt. Gov. Diane Denish; and an array of experts and scholars representing private industry and academia will be part of New Mexico State University’s a More »

April 1, 2009 by Therese Shakra NMSU News Center As part of the federal government’s stimulus bill, almost $39 billion is to be spent by the Department of Energy (DOE) with an emphasis on developing clean, secure, energy technology through scientific research, commercial development, and infrastructure improvements. New Mexico State University’s Institute for Energy and the Environment More »

March 17, 2009 by Justin Bannister NMSU News Center Every day, New Mexico’s most valuable resource is literally being flushed away. Now, in an effort to save millions of gallons of water each year, researchers at New Mexico State University are working on turning once unusable wastewater into water suitable for home landscape irrigation. The research aims to not only reduce the amount More »

March 13, 2009 by Darrell J. Pehr NMSU News Center The New Mexico State University Board of Regents approved two buildings with a combined construction cost of more than $11 million during their meeting Monday that are expected to meet criteria for the U.S. Green Building Council’s Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Green Building Rating System. One of the buildings also More »