LAS CRUCES, New Mexico, Oct. 31 -- New Mexico State University issued the following news release: Arrowhead Center at New Mexico State University has been awarded a $200,000 grant through the U.S. Small Business Administration's Federal and State Technology Partnership Program to continue empowering startups and small businesses in New Mexico with the resources they need to succeed in the competitive world of technology commercialization. Now in its 10th year of funding, Arrowhead Center will   more

SANTA FE, New Mexico, Oct. 31 -- Santa Fe Institute issued the following news release: SFI has consistently nurtured relationships with insightful practitioners and radical innovators. In robust discussions, these leaders have raised provoking questions and offered access to data, while SFI scientists have shared insights and tools to help business leaders tackle real-world problems. Over the past 32 years, many of these partnerships have been organized within SFI's Applied Complexity Network (  more

LAS CRUCES, New Mexico, Oct. 30 (TNSres) -- New Mexico State University issued the following news release: Michael Barnes is the farm ranch manager at the Clayton Livestock Research Center, which is part of the NMSU Agricultural Experiment Station. Originally from Boise City, Oklahoma, Barnes has a bachelor's degree in agriculture education with minors in animal science, agronomy, natural sciences and industrial arts from Oklahoma Panhandle State University. Barnes has been at NMSU for six and  more

LAS CRUCES, New Mexico, Oct. 31 -- New Mexico State University issued the following news release: New Mexico State University is now recognized as a National Center of Academic Excellence in Cyber Defense by the National Security Agency and the Department of Homeland Security. The designation comes after a vigorous screening of academic programs and the university's ICT department. The designation is active through the 2029 academic year. "Receiving the NSA-CAE CD designation is a proud momen  more

LAS CRUCES, New Mexico, Oct. 30 -- New Mexico State University issued the following news release: Several New Mexico State University's Cooperative Extension Service Family and Consumer Science agents and specialists were recognized at the National Extension Association of Family and Consumer Sciences annual session in Tucson, Arizona, in September. Two NMSU staff members received individual national awards. Karim Martinez, Extension family life and child development specialist, was presented   more

LAS CRUCES, New Mexico, Oct. 30 -- New Mexico State University issued the following news release: Arrowhead Center at New Mexico State University is now home to southern New Mexico's first co-innovation hub for NewSpace Nexus, a nonprofit organization that focuses on accelerating the pace of space innovation by uniting and igniting the industry. The co-innovation hub will be housed at Arrowhead Center's SPACE Incubator, which unites startups and assistance providers across the space, agricultu  more

SANTA FE, New Mexico, Oct. 30 (TNSres) -- Santa Fe Institute issued the following news release: Two systems exist in thermal equilibrium if no heat passes between them. Computers, which consume energy and give off heat as they process information, operate far from thermal equilibrium. Were they to stop consuming energy -- say you let your laptop discharge completely -- they would stop functioning. But how does the amount of energy required by a physical system to perform a computation depend o  more

SANTA FE, New Mexico, Oct. 31 (TNSres) -- Santa Fe Institute issued the following news release: No matter how mundane or life-changing, the decisions we make are necessarily based on whatever limited information is available to us. If you're weighing the risks of going outside during a pandemic, for example, you might base your decision on the news (which is updated only periodically) or whether you personally knew anybody who was sick (which is a small sample size.) SFI Complexity Postdoctoral  more

SANTA FE, New Mexico, Oct. 31 -- WildEarth Guardians issued the following news release: * * * Tree planting funded in part by the Drinking Water Providers Partnership * * * On October 26, the Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe (LEKT) hosted a tree planting event along the Elwha River in Olympic National Park as part of its ongoing vegetation restoration efforts following the removal of two dams over a decade ago. Hundreds of trees were planted to strengthen the riparian buffer zone on lands that were  more