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Student government leaders from the University of New Mexico, New Mexico State University and New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology unequivocally urge legislators to cover the Legislative Lottery Scholarship shortfall by allocating $9.7 million from the General Fund to the Lottery Tuition Fund. Since four-year higher education students are not included in the Opportunity Scholarship in its second year of conception as promised by the governor, students will be forced to fall back on the Lottery Scholarship. This makes it more important than ever to address this shortfall.
As the student-body president at the University of New Mexico, I have talked to many students about their priorities and concerns. Our student body reflects society and is often split on how it views societal topics. However, the importance of the Lottery Scholarship and its impact on students’ ability to stay in sc
“So clearly, we’re digging ourselves out of a hole,” Dougherty said.
Dougherty said the United States lost more than 22 million jobs during the depths of the downturn caused by the pandemic, about half of which have been recovered at this point. Spending on services remains well below where it stood before the virus began to spread.
Even if GDP does grow by about 5% in each of the next two years, as Dougherty predicts, it still won’t put the country’s GDP back on pre-pandemic rate of growth until 2022 or 2023, he said.
“We’re certainly not back to where we were at the start of 2020,” Dougherty said.
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IMAGE: Burton C. English, professor at the University of Tennessee Institute of Agriculture, has received the 2021 Lifetime Achievement Award from the Southern Agricultural Economics Association. view more
Credit: Photo courtesy UTIA.
The award is given in recognition of his significant and enduring contributions to the agricultural economics profession. English accepted the award in February at the 2021 SAEA annual meeting, which was held virtually this year due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
English is a pioneer in the field of bioenergy research and is recognized internationally as an expert, garnering him numerous awards including a Certificate of Merit from the U.S. Department of Energy. With four decades of bioenergy research under his belt, he is currently focused on a grant from the Federal Aviation Administration to research sustainable aviation fuel development in the Southeast, a potential game changer for rural farming communities. English and a team of
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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. New Mexico State University announced Tuesday it has been selected to receive a NASA Early Stage Innovations grant of up to $650,000 to conduct space technology research.
NMSU, in a news release, said its proposal was one of 14 university-led research proposals chosen to receive a NASA’s Space Technology Research Grants program for up to three years.
Krishna Kota, associate professor in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, will lead a team doing fundamental research to develop compact, high performance heat exchanger technology for cryocoolers intended for long duration space missions.
Mechanical Engineering Associate Professor Sarada Kuravi and Professor Vimal Chaitanya are co-principal investigators on the project, NMSU said.