Manuel T. Pacheco completes his first week as NMSU interim president. Higher education has been central to Dr. Pacheco's life that it is no surprise he continues to work six years after his retirement. This week Pacheco began his tenure as interim president of NMSU.
Dr. Robert D. Moulton will leave NMSU to lead two colleges within the United Arab Emirates. Dr. Moulton, has been interim Executive Vice President / Provost and Dean of the College of Education, will leave New Mexico State University in August for a position in the Higher Colleges of Technology (HCT) system in the United Arab Emirates. HCT is a relatively new and rapidly growing part of the UAE national system of higher education.
NMSU ROTC Commander, LT.COL. Bradley Gavle will retire this summer. After 26 years of military service and three years as the New Mexico State University ROTC Commander.
SunLight Eagle Soars at Las Cruces Flight Test Center
The Physical Science Laboratory (PSL) of New Mexico State University announced that its Unmanned Aircraft Systems Flight Test Center successfully hosted the first flight last month of a solar-powered unmanned aircraft in the National Airspace System.
TODAY IN HISTORY
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 2009
Today is the 257th day of 2009
There are 108 days left in 2009
1814
Francis Scott Key wrote "The Star-Spangled Banner" after witnessing the British bombardment of Fort McHenry in Maryland during the War of 1812.
1847
U.S. forces under Gen. Winfield Scott took control of Mexico City.
1901
President William B. McKinley died in Buffalo, N.Y., of gunshot wounds inflicted by an assassin eight days earlier. Vice President Theodore Roosevelt, 42, was sworn in, becoming the youngest president in U.S. history.
1940
Congress passed the Selective Training and Service Act, providing for the first peacetime draft in U.S. history.
1948
Ground was broken in New York City for the United Nations' world headquarters.
1975
Pope Paul VI declared Mother Elizabeth Ann Bayley Seton the first U.S.-born saint.
1982
Princess Grace of Monaco, formerly actress Grace Kelly, died at age 52 of injuries suffered in a car crash.
1982
Lebanon's president-elect, Bashir Gemayel, was killed by a bomb.
1994
Acting commissioner Bud Selig announced the cancellation of the rest of the baseball season on the 34th day of a strike by players.
2001
The FBI released the names of the 19 hijackers who took part in the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks; President George W. Bush toured the ruins of the World Trade Center and addressed rescue workers over a bullhorn.
2005
Delta Air Lines and Northwest Airlines filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.
2005
A federal judge in San Francisco declared the reciting of the Pledge of Allegiance in public schools unconstitutional.
Today is the 257th day of 2009
There are 108 days left in 2009
1814
Francis Scott Key wrote "The Star-Spangled Banner" after witnessing the British bombardment of Fort McHenry in Maryland during the War of 1812.
1847
U.S. forces under Gen. Winfield Scott took control of Mexico City.
1901
President William B. McKinley died in Buffalo, N.Y., of gunshot wounds inflicted by an assassin eight days earlier. Vice President Theodore Roosevelt, 42, was sworn in, becoming the youngest president in U.S. history.
1940
Congress passed the Selective Training and Service Act, providing for the first peacetime draft in U.S. history.
1948
Ground was broken in New York City for the United Nations' world headquarters.
1975
Pope Paul VI declared Mother Elizabeth Ann Bayley Seton the first U.S.-born saint.
1982
Princess Grace of Monaco, formerly actress Grace Kelly, died at age 52 of injuries suffered in a car crash.
1982
Lebanon's president-elect, Bashir Gemayel, was killed by a bomb.
1994
Acting commissioner Bud Selig announced the cancellation of the rest of the baseball season on the 34th day of a strike by players.
2001
The FBI released the names of the 19 hijackers who took part in the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks; President George W. Bush toured the ruins of the World Trade Center and addressed rescue workers over a bullhorn.
2005
Delta Air Lines and Northwest Airlines filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.
2005
A federal judge in San Francisco declared the reciting of the Pledge of Allegiance in public schools unconstitutional.
Heath Haussamen on New Mexico Politics
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