October 26, 2009. Retrieved online October 26, 2009 from M. Therese Shakra for the Las Cruces Sun-News LAS CRUCES -- New Mexico State University faculty from the Institute for Energy and the Environment and the College of Engineering were awarded a $1 million Department of Energy grant to demonstrate a renewable energy-based microgrid in partnership with an electric utility company. Algae-based More »

KRWG TV: Newsmakers September 3, 2009: Charles Comer reports from a major energy conference at New Mexico State University featuring US Energy Secretary Dr. Steven Chu. Fred Martino interviews Dr. Abbas Ghassemi, Director of NMSU's Institute for Energy and the Environment. Charles Comer and Fred Martino feature the people, issues, and events that shape our community. E-mail your story a 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 »

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 »