Credit Deming Santa Fe, N.M. – Today, New Mexico MainStreet (NMMS) and the New Mexico Economic Development Department (NMEDD) announced that $1.5 million has been awarded for revitalization projects in four NMMS districts: Deming, Farmington, Lovington, and Truth or Consequences. The NMMS Public Infrastructure (Capital Outlay) Program provides funding for upgrades within a targeted public investment area. Projects must be an economic driver, demonstrate impact on the local economy, improve the appearance & functionality of the district, create connectors, and engage local property & business owners.
“These public infrastructure projects will aid New Mexico’s economic recovery efforts from the COVID-19 pandemic because they create jobs, build confidence in business owners, and incentivize commercial property improvements,” Economic Development Secretary Alicia J. Keyes said. “The Capital Outlay appropriations from the Legislature allow MainStreet to fund priority c
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LOS ALAMOS, N.M., Jan. 27, 2021 /PRNewswire/ UbiQD, Inc., a New Mexico-based advanced materials company, announced today that it has published the groundbreaking results of the first phase of its NASA-funded plant trials in the open-access Nature Research journal, Communications Biology. The study validates the use of quantum dots for optimized crop growth on space missions. The collaborative research and development project with the University of Arizona s Controlled Environment Agriculture Center (UA-CEAC) demonstrated a 13% biomass improvement for red romaine lettuce using UbiQD s orange-emitting, luminescent greenhouse product UbiGro™, and a 9% increase for a new red-emitting film.
UbiQD Publishes Initial Results Of NASA-Funded Agriculture Study, Optimizing Spectral Quality For Growing Plants On Space Missions Using Quantum Dot Films - 1:15 pm
Artist’s rendition of UbiQD’s quantum dot-enabled greenhouse film, UbiGro™, installed in a lunar greenhouse growing tomatoes. Courtesy/UbiQD, Inc.
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…The peer-reviewed study presents collaborative research with the University of Arizona’s Controlled Environment Agriculture Center, validating the importance of light color on crop productivity
UbiQD, Inc., a Los Alamos-based advanced materials company, announced today that it has published the groundbreaking results of the first phase of its NASA-funded plant trials in the open-access Nature Research journal, “Communications Biology”.