Highlands Professors Awarded $150,000 Grant for a Raman Microscope

July 7, 2021 This fall, New Mexico Highlands University will acquire a Raman microscope, giving students an opportunity to use cutting-edge technology. The Raman microscope functions as both a microscope and a spectrometer, which means it can measure things at the...

Free STEAMM Day Camp for Local Middle School Students

June 29, 2021 Middle school students from Las Vegas and Mora will have a chance to learn to fly fish, tie flies, and make art in free, three-day science, technology, engineering, art, music, and math, or STEAMM, camp.  The camp will run on July 20, 21, and...

Online Criminology Master’s Program to Launch Fall Semester

New Mexico Highlands University’s brand-new Master of Arts degree in criminology is ready to begin enrolling students for the fall semester. Designed to provide students with a comprehensive academic foundation, the program will help professionals working in criminal...

NSF Grant to Study Microbes and Tree Diversity

Las Vegas, N.M. – New Mexico Highlands University is a partner in a National Science Foundation grant that will explore how microbes like fungi and bacteria influence forest diversity and health. The four-year NSF grant is for $913,236 and will involve a partnership...
Professor Recognized for GLBTQ Advocacy

Professor Recognized for GLBTQ Advocacy

Las Vegas, NM – As PJ Sedillo stood on the pitcher’s mound, he was “scared as heck.” All eyes, it seemed, were on him as Sedillo held the baseball in his hand, ready to make the first pitch in the minor-league matchup between the Albuquerque Isotopes and the Las...

New Course Helps Parents Navigate Online Learning

LAS VEGAS, NM – Parents and guardians of school-age children can develop skills on navigating online learning with their students thanks to a new summer course offered at New Mexico Highlands University.   Scholarships are available for 20 participants in the...

Competition winners receive business idea seed money

LAS VEGAS, NM – Five people won a combined $5,000 in seed money for their business ideas during Highlands University’s Department of Business Administration’s first ever business pitch competition. The awards ceremony for the competition, COWBOY UP!, was conducted...
Dolores Huerta to HU Grads: Education is the Key to Change

Dolores Huerta to HU Grads: Education is the Key to Change

Las Vegas, NM – Be engaged in your communities, labor activist Dolores Huerta told the classes of 2020 and 2021 during a virtual commencement ceremony May 15. “We never know what our destiny holds for us,” Huerta told the 1,610 Highlands graduates participating in the...
Student Art Exhibition Highlights Social Justice

Student Art Exhibition Highlights Social Justice

Las Vegas, NM – The current virtual exhibition at New Mexico Highlands’ Ray Drew Gallery explores the concepts of justice, resilience, identity, and growth through the artwork of the university’s social work students. The virtual exhibition, Envisioning Social...

Tilson Uses Data to Drive Student Success

Las Vegas, NM – For Heather Tilson, data is more than numbers and trends. Data is a story about real people and their successes and struggles. For Tilson, who joined Highlands May 3 as the university’s director of institutional effectiveness and research, the...
Dolores Huerta to Speak at Virtual HU Commencement May 15

Dolores Huerta to Speak at Virtual HU Commencement May 15

April 27, 2021 Las Vegas, N.M. – Dolores Huerta, a legendary American labor leader, civil rights activist and co-founder of the United Farm Workers union with Cesar Chavez, is the guest speaker for New Mexico Highlands University’s virtual commencement ceremony May...

School of Education Sponsors National Summit June 21 – 24

April 27, 2021 Las Vegas, N.M – The New Mexico Highlands University School of Education presents a national summit June 21 – June 24 that offers a practical approach to redesigning schools to meet children’s current needs. The first Problems of Practice Summit at...
Smithsonian’s Cooper Hewitt Museum Honors Media Arts Project

Smithsonian’s Cooper Hewitt Museum Honors Media Arts Project

April 23, 2021 Las Vegas, N.M. – The New Mexico Highlands University Media Arts and Technology Department received an award from the Smithsonian’s Cooper Hewitt museum for an interactive web app that will generate 3-D butterflies for mobile phones or computers. The...
School of Education Offers Free Distance Learning Micro Credential

School of Education Offers Free Distance Learning Micro Credential

April 20, 2021 Las Vegas, N.M. – The New Mexico Highlands University School of Education will begin offering short instructional modules that prepare participants to use technology effectively for teaching distance learning. The free modules are part of the Technology...

Highlands Employees Volunteer With Las Vegas COVID-19 Test Site

April 19, 2021 Las Vegas, N.M. – Employees from New Mexico Highlands University are lending a hand with the COVID-19 drive-through test site the City of Las Vegas is offering Monday through Thursday from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. The COVID-19 drive-through test site is at the...
Students Design Educational Kits for Santa Fe Children’s Museum

Students Design Educational Kits for Santa Fe Children’s Museum

April 15, 2021 Las Vegas, N.M. – Media Arts and Technology students at New Mexico Highlands University designed new hands-on learning kits for the Santa Fe Children’s Museum to distribute to children and families throughout New Mexico. The grab-and-go kits were...