August 18, 2009 by Justin Bannister NMSU News Center New Mexico State University kicked off a new semester with its fall 2009 convocation ceremony, a semi-annual event where the university honors some of its top faculty members. Yu-Feng “Winnie” Lee and Manoj Shukla were awarded the Patricia Christmore Teaching Award. The award recognizes and rewards superb junior tenure-track facult More »

June 30, 2009 by Therese Shakra NMSU News Center The green economy is quickly growing and New Mexico State University and the College of Engineering’s Institute for Energy and the Environment (IEE) continue to fuel New Mexico’s instrumental role in the transformative “green age.” The next industrial revolution will center on production of renewable energy resources. This was one of 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 »

Dec. 16, 2008 by Mario A. Montes NMSU News Center New Mexico State University is looking beyond this nation’s borders to find answers to one of the scarcest resources of the arid Southwest – water.New Mexico Water Resources Research Institute, NMSU’s International Relations Institute, with co-sponsors Sandia National Laboratories, NMSU’s Institute for Energy and the Environment, an More »

Nov. 11, 2008 by M. Therese Shakra NMSU Round Up The Institute for Energy and the Environment (IEE), part of New Mexico State University’s College of Engineering, is in the process of finalizing a proposed grant for approximately $450,000 to investigate the commercial feasibility of a geothermal, algae-based (algal) transportation fuel production facility. Luz-Elena Y. Mimbela, IEE Pro More »

Nov. 6, 2008 by Justin Bannister NMSU News Center At times, the formidable winds known across much of the western U.S. can be unpleasant, but now western farmers and ranchers are seeing dollar signs in the wind as they look to lease portions of their land to wind farm developers. “We are seeing a wind land rush in New Mexico by more than two dozen wind developers of all stripes and sha More »