Research News 2010

October 2010

• Winners of the 2010 URC Research and Creative Activities Fair
• WRRI and statewide water research
• Research on protein structure prediction receives best paper award at international conference
• Spatial distribution of livestock on rangelands: a project Involving a network of study sites on two continents
• Funding boosts NMSU efforts in examining the resilience of New Mexico communities facing climate change
• The Professor of Secrets, NMSU history professor publishes book on Renaissance dcience
• NMSU graduate accepts faculty position at Oklahoma State University
• Scaling Up Mathematics Achievement grant
• NSF workshops for NMSU faculty and researchers

August 2010

• NMSU delegation participates in 2010 International Conference on Biomass and Energy Technologies in China
• NMSU’s Core University Research Lab supports regional collaborative research and exploration
• NMSU faculty member aims to improve flow cytometry techniques
• NMSU librarian documents violence and murder in Mexico
• SWAT lab passes biannual accreditation audit
• Geological research in Alaska helps understand plate tectonics processes
• NMSU student spends summer in Africa helping to improve irrigation practices

June 2010

• Winners of the 2010 University Research Council awards
• NMSU faculty member’s ARRA-funded research on grass-shrub responses to climate change in the chihuahuan desert
• Energy technologies: from atoms to applications
• Multidisciplinary project aims to develop low-cost malaria diagnostic
• Tool using extraordinary optical transmission through nanoholes
• Research at NMSU helps understand disease-transmitting mosquito biology
• Enhancing defense applications using sensor networks
• Doña Ana assistant professor’s study aims to help increase the number of biology majors
• Book: Terrorizing Women: Feminicide in the Americas
• Linguistics professor publishes findings on Spanish-Portuguese language contact

April 2010

• NMSU’s millionaire researchers honored
• Impacts of ARRA funds on NMSU and New Mexico
• New Mexico selected by NASA for 2010 Summer of Innovation
• Airborne weather sensor flies on NMSU’s unmanned aircraft 
• Mick O’Neill, associate professor of agronomy, recipient of Jose Fernandez Memorial Chair award
• Meet Gloricelys Rivera: NMSU’s biology Ph.D. candidate from San Juan, Puerto Rico

February 2010

• NMSU researchers part of $44 million consortium for biofuels research
• Developing an irrigation master plan for Rwanda: NMSU researcher helps improve farming in Africa
• NMSU faculty member awarded $1.68 Million NSF grant to develop reduced gravity simulation technology for astronaut training and biomechanics research
• NMSU researchers secure $11.5 million of stimulus funds to support their projects
• Associate professor of history awarded fellowship with Harvard
• The Mercy Papers: NMSU department of english faculty member receives recognition for her book
• What caused the American civil war?