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• Jan 7, 2021
New Mexico State University is positioning itself as a leader in agricultural sustainability as a team of researchers embark on new projects to study groundbreaking water-saving technology.
The two studies, which align with the university’s strategic goal to advance research activity to address global challenges, are the result of new partnerships with two agrotechnology companies based in Israel, Tal-Ya Agriculture Solution and N-Drip.
Under the partnerships, researchers from the College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences and College of Engineering formed an interdisciplinary group to study the companies’ signature water-saving systems: Tal-Ya’s Mitra and N-Drip’s Gravity Micro Irrigation. Manoj Shukla, professor of plant and environmental sciences, is serving as the director of the two studies, which launched in March amid the COVID-19 pandemic, with support from NMSU’s Center of Exce
New Mexico State University is positioning itself as a leader in agricultural sustainability as a team of researchers embark on new projects to study groundbreaking water-saving technology. New Mexico State University researchers formed an interdisciplinary group this year to study two water-saving systems from Tal-Ya Agriculture Solution and N-Drip. The projects are based at NMSUs Leyendecker Plant Science Research Center in Doña Ana County. (NMSU photo by Josh Bachman) Tal-Ya Agriculture Solutions Mitra system is a patent-based, recyclable platform that facilitates an ideal microclimate around plants roots. (NMSU photo by Josh Bachman) The N-Drip system provides precise irrigation using only gravitational force for power and tolerates natural water without the use of pressure-based filters. (NMSU photo by Josh Bachman)
NMSU club to train five new puppies to be guide dogs for the blind Leah Romero, Las Cruces Sun-News
LAS CRUCES – New Mexico State University’s Community Puppy Raisers club received five new puppies this weekend to prepare for guide dog school in California. The student club partners with Guide Dogs for the Blind to socialize and teach the puppies basic obedience.
Guide Dogs for the Blind is a nonprofit organization that breeds and prepares Labrador retrievers, golden retrievers and Lab-golden retriever crosses to assist people who are blind or visually impaired.
The five 8-week-old Labrador retriever puppies were delivered to the Las Cruces International Airport Saturday, Jan. 2, by an anonymous donor who volunteered to fly to California to pick up the puppies before delivering them to students in Las Cruces.
Created: January 05, 2021 03:14 PM
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M.- Lawmakers have begun filing bills ahead of the 60-day legislative session.
One of the bills aims to end hazing that can lead to college students being hurt or killed.
Democratic State Rep. Sheryl Williams Stapleton said her bill would make college hazing a crime. Students who commit the crime would be charged with a misdemeanor. This piece of legislation will really look at how we can stop hazing that causes death, Williams Stapleton said.
In October, a judge sentenced a former New Mexico State University fraternity member who shot another student in the leg during a hazing ritual in 2019.