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7 unusual facts about New Mexico State University


Gwladys Nocera

She holds a degree in international business from New Mexico State University.

J. Michael Ortiz

On October 27, 2009, Cal Poly Pomona student-run newspaper The Poly Post informed the campus community of Ortiz's possible departure to New Mexico State University.

Joseph Wang

In 1980, he joined the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at New Mexico State University, where he became a Regents Professor and holder of the Manasse Chair.

Las Cruces Convention Center

It is located on the corner of University Avenue and El Paseo Road on the New Mexico State University Campus.

New Mexico Farm and Ranch Heritage Museum

The idea for the museum was conceived in the 1970s and the grassroots effort to create the facility was led by William P. Stephens, the former New Mexico Secretary of Agriculture, and Gerald Thomas, the former president of New Mexico State University.

Theron C. Bennett

Born in Pierce City, Missouri, he graduated in 1902 from the school which is now New Mexico State University.

Trinidad Scorpion Butch T pepper

According to the New Mexico State University's Chile Pepper Institute (the only international, non-profit scientific organization devoted to education and research related to Capsicum or chile peppers), the distinction of world's most piquant pepper currently belongs to the Trinidad Moruga Scorpion.


Brian Colon

Mr. Colón has also served on the State Bar of New Mexico Committee on Diversity since 2003, is a Board Member for the New Mexico College Success Network, has been a Board Member for the New Mexico State University Alumni Association, is active in Lobos for Legislation, and has twice been appointed by Governor Richardson as a Commissioner for the Judicial Selection Commission.

Milton Moore Snodgrass

Currently Department of Agricultural Economics and Agricultural Business, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, New Mexico.

Omchery N. N. Pillai

He pursued his higher studies in Mass Communication from Pennsylvania University and Mexico State University and worked in the Indian Institute of Mass Communication.

Rachel Vetter Huang

She has been a guest artist at the University of California, Davis, San Francisco State University, New Mexico State University, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology and was an American representative at the Respighi Festival in Citta de Castello, Italy, the Classical Music Festival in Eisenstadt, Austria, and the Arts College, Xiamen University, People's Republic of China.


see also

Mark Walker

Mark Alan Walker, professor of philosophy at New Mexico State University

New Mexico State University Alamogordo

New Mexico State University Alamogordo (NMSU-A) is a two-year community college college located in Alamogordo, New Mexico and is accredited independently by North Central Association.

New Mexico State University Grants

NMSU Grants Campus is located in Grants, New Mexico and was established as a branch of New Mexico State University in 1968 through the cooperative efforts of New Mexico State University and Grants Municipal Schools.

Sheila Black

Teaching part-time at New Mexico State University and also working as Development Director for the Colonias Development Council, Sheila Black continues to write poetry, recently becoming co-editor of Beauty Is A Verb: The New Poetry of Disability with Jennifer Bartlett and Mike Northen.

The Round Up

The Round Up distributes and prints a weekly version of the newspaper every Tuesday to designated Round Up bins all over the campus of New Mexico State University in Las Cruces, New Mexico.