Las Vegas, N.M. – Diana Venegas, the new student body president at New Mexico Highlands University, solidified her career path to develop social work policy during a new Legislative Fellowship program the university sponsored. “My professional goal is to attend law...
Las Vegas, N.M. – New Mexico Highlands University Department of English professor Tyler Mills’ latest poetry book has received the Tupelo Press 2019 Snowbound Chapbook Award. Tupelo Press will publish Mills’ 2018 poetry book, “The City Scattered.” Mills is also the...
Las Vegas, N.M. – New Mexico Highlands University geology graduate student Johnson Adio is researching water quality at the Rio Mora northeast of Las Vegas, New Mexico, thanks to a $6,500 grant from the New Mexico Water Resources Research Institute. Adio’s thesis...
Las Vegas, N.M.– The New Mexico Highlands University School of Education is offering $525,970 in teacher education scholarships, thanks to awards from two New Mexico Higher Education Department programs. In its 2019 session, the New Mexico State Legislature approved...
Middle- and high-school students are having a hands-on opportunity to learn filmmaking skills June 17-27 at New Mexico Highlands University’s free film-school camp, called “Film on a Phone.” Subjects range from screenwriting to editing videos using smart-phone...
Las Vegas, N.M. – Siblings Ali and Chris Romero, students in New Mexico Highlands University’s media arts and technology program, joined forces this month for an art exhibition at 2Ten Galeria in Las Vegas, New Mexico. In their artist statement, the duo describes...
Las Vegas, N.M. – New Mexico Highlands University fine arts professor David Lobdell’s steel sculpture “Blue Rail” is being featured in a Six Mile Sculpture Works exhibit in Granite City, Illinois. Lobdell’s piece was cast at the Amsted Rail Company in Granite City in...
Las Vegas, N.M. – Highlands University presents the second Highlands Alumni Art Exhibition through June 28 in the Kennedy Alumni Hall at 905 University Ave. “We received an excellent response in this second year of the Alumni Art Exhibition, with 23 artists submitting...
Las Vegas, N.M. – Anthropology students from New Mexico Highlands University were the first to document a site and analyze artifacts of a prehistoric Anasazi Pueblo on the banks of the San Juan River on the Navajo Nation in Northwest New Mexico. The three students...
Las Vegas, New Mexico – The New Mexico Highlands University Vatos rugby club won another national championship June 2 in Philadelphia at the 2019 national tournament. It was the third time in five years the Vatos were victorious at the national level, with the club...
ALBUQUERQUE, NM – American universities need to look inward to develop solutions to help more students graduate, a noted educator told an audience of university and government officials from across New Mexico. “There’s no excuse for sitting on the sidelines, because...
Las Vegas, N.M. – New Mexico Highlands presents the work of Las Vegas, New Mexico artist Martín Montoya through June 21 in the Ray Drew Gallery in Donnelly Library at 802 National Ave. The closing artist’s reception is June 16 from 3 to 5 p.m. Montoya said he’s always...
Las Vegas, New Mexico – Kent Reid, director of the New Mexico Forest and Watershed Restoration Institute at New Mexico Highlands University, volunteered May 5 – 19 in the Dominican Republic providing advice on strategic planning to protect water resources. Reid was on...
Las Vegas, New Mexico – New Mexico Highlands University’s alumni who graduated in 2015 and 2016 gave the university high marks for the value of their education relative to cost, with a total of 93 percent reporting being satisfied or very satisfied. The Highlands...
The New Mexico Highlands University Board of Regents will hold a meeting on Friday, June 7, 2019 at 9:00 a.m., in the Margaret J. Kennedy Alumni Hall, 905 University Avenue, NMHU Main Campus. The meeting will be zoomed: https://nmhu.zoom.us/j/122824474 The meeting...
Las Vegas, New Mexico – New Mexico Highlands University graduate Justin Stallworth has been nominated for a Life of Significance Award for his volunteer service. Penn Mutual Life Insurance Company named Stallworth as a finalist for the national award, writing that he...
Las Vegas, N.M. – Reyes Montoya, who graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in music production from New Mexico Highlands University in May 2019, was inducted into the Latin Grammy Association in April. The 22-year-old native of the tiny village of Sunshine, New...
Highlands alumna Gabi Hernandez speaks about organizing for resistance and change at Highlands’ statewide Diversity Summit May 22. Hernandez is a nationally and internationally known social justice advocate and graphic artist. More than 110 people participated...
Las Vegas, New Mexico – New Mexico Highlands University is offering a new Introduction to Homeland Security course through a partnership with the Santa Fe Police Department. Robert Vasquez, deputy chief of police of the Santa Fe Police Department and an expert in...
New Mexico Highlands University forestry professor Julie Tsatsaros, far right, explains a water cycle experiment to Tyra Horner, far left, and Bryanna Montoya, fifth-graders from Union Elementary in Las Vegas. The girls participated in AAUW’s “Girls Can” program at...
