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KRWG Public Media will present a six-part series on New Mexico’s rural heritage in collaboration with New Mexico State University. The series will air on
KRWG News This Week, which is broadcast Saturdays at 5 p.m. on KRWG-FM 90.7. The series will air following the show’s regular segments covering the week’s top stories.
Each week, the series will highlight a different topic, beginning with “daily life” on February 20. The additional topics include: Education (February 27), Farming (March 6), Commerce (March 13), Religion & Health (March 20), and War (March 20).
The New Mexico Rural Heritage Oral History Project is a collaboration between anthropologists at New Mexico State University and the Oral History Program at the New Mexico Farm and Ranch Heritage Museum in Las Cruces. The goal of the project was to record the memories of New Mexicans who grew up in rural parts of the state in the first half of the twentieth century.
Everyone should wear face masks inside their own home if family members have Covid symptoms or test positive, European health chiefs have said.
People in the same household as someone who has tested positive or has a fever, cough or loss of taste and smell have been advised to wear masks inside their homes by the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control.
Both the person who is sick and everyone else who lives with them should wear a mask or face covering as much as possible, the ECDC said.
The EU agency released a technical report looking into how useful face masks are in preventing the spread of coronavirus.
Maryland-College Park Announces Weeklong Sequester The University of Maryland's main campus in College Park on Saturday announced that all on-campus students would sequester in place for at least a week and that all instruction would move online beginning Monday. University officials cited a sharp rise in COVID-19 cases: Maryland's pandemic dashboard shows a total of 74 cases
Construction is now underway on a renewable energy project at New Mexico State Universitys Arrowhead Park that is projected to generate enough solar electricity to power about one-third of the universitys 900-acre Las Cruces campus by this fall. Crews work to prepare the ground and surrounding areas on the southeast side of New Mexico State Universitys main campus for Aggie Power, a new solar panel project with El Paso Electric that is projected to generate enough solar electricity to power about one-third of the universitys 900-acre Las Cruces campus this fall. (NMSU photo by Josh Bachman)
Arrowhead Center at New Mexico State University has been awarded $25,000 in the Lab-to-Market Inclusive Innovation Ecosystem Prize Competition, an award granted by the U.S. Small Business Administration and the National Science and Technology Council. Arrowhead Center at New Mexico State University has been awarded $25,000 in the Lab-to-Market Inclusive Innovation Ecosystem Prize Competition, an award granted by the U.S. Small Business Administration and the National Science and Technology Council. (NMSU photo)
For the L2M Competition, the SBA partnered with the National Science and Technology Council to award $330,000 in prizes to organizations, programs and ideas supporting research and development innovation ecosystems. The competition focused on underrepresented communities and pandemic responses for inclusive innovation. Out of more than 160 application submissions from across the nation, 18 awardees were selected.