Archive for January, 2010

Employment Extravaganza 2010 is the last recruiting opportunity of the academic year. It will be held in the Corbett Center Student Union on Wednesday, March 10, 2010 from 9:00a.m. – 3:00p.m.

Employment Extravaganza 2010 is a venture to unite the students of New Mexico State University with employers in the state of New Mexico and regionally. However, any employers still addressing staffing requirements in the area of Internships, Cooperative Education, temporary summer work, or Professional Employment are cordially invited to attend. This is the last general career fair of the academic year.

Employers will have opportunities to:

• Connect with potential candidates
• Showcase upcoming career opportunities in your organization
• Meet dynamic students for part-time, temporary, summer, internship, co-op, or full-time employment
• Interact with candidates from 82 Bachelor’s, 50 Master’s, and 22 Doctoral degree programs at NMSU

Students can distribute resumes and learn about career opportunities for current and future positions. Freshmen through Alumni are invited to participate.

Employers may register on-line.  Parking information and maps are available on-line http://careerservices.nmsu.edu/fairs/parking.html.

For more information call 575-646-4115 or via e-mail: extrav@nmsu.edu.

On Monday, January 25, Governor Bill Richardson unveiled an interconnected system that will eventually link 33 sites around the state to Encanto, New Mexico’s Supercomputer.  Encanto is the fastest public supercomputer in the world. The Supercomputer, which is housed at Intel in Rio Rancho, can perform 172 trillion calculations per second.

The “Connect New Mexico” event connected all eight new gateway sites into the Supercomputer using its new teleconferencing capability. The sites are:

• The University of New Mexico
• New Mexico State University
• Eastern New Mexico
• Western New Mexico University
• New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology
• Santa Fe Community College
• San Juan College
• The State Capitol

These sites will be utilized by the universities and local businesses that need high performance computing for design and modeling purposes. The Supercomputer can be used for research, educational activities, training, and business modeling in the areas of energy, environment, digital film, aerospace, and biotechnology, among others.

The founding institutions for the New Mexico Computing Applications Center, which runs the Supercomputer, are UNM, NMSU, New Mexico Tech, and Sandia and Los Alamos National Laboratories.

For more information about the event and future Supercomputer gateways, see the Governor’s newsroom and the NMSU News Center.

Announcement Courtesy of WESST, SBDC, and SCORE

National news sources have reported a staggering decrease in bank lending to small businesses in 2009.  Small businesses have faced a variety of challenges during this latest recession and are hopeful the lending will improve in 2010.

What can small businesses expect from lenders in 2010?

• What has changed in lending, if anything?
• What do banks expect from borrowers?
• What lies ahead in small business loans?
• What SBA programs or guarantees exist now? In the future?

A panel of local lenders and Small Business Administration (SBA) officials will answer many of these questions during a “Free Lender’s Forum” on February 4, 2010. The forum will be held at the Dona Ana Community College Workforce Development Center, 2345 E. Nevada in Las Cruces, New Mexico from 6:00 – 8:00 p.m. Food and beverages will be provided, but space is limited. Please pre-register by calling 541-1583.

The February meeting of the MVEDA Business on the Border Forum will be held on Tuesday, February 2, 2010 from 11:30 AM until 1:00 PM at the Day’s Inn Columbus Conference Center, 901 Avenida de Mesilla.  The meeting will begin with a hot entree buffet, followed by an update by MVEDA staff.

Christopher Madrid, Vice President of IMPACT-NM Business Growth Services will be the featured speaker for the luncheon.  IMPACT-NM Business Growth Services is a division of New Mexico Community Capital (NMCC). New Mexico Community Capital founded IMPACT-NM to ensure that New Mexico businesses have the skills they need to grow and use equity capital effectively, regardless of whether they become NMCC client companies. By giving them access to experienced professionals, they expand and improve by using new methods, resourceful financings, and creative growth and performance strategies.

IMPACT-NM works with promising companies throughout New Mexico to help them create the strategies, master the skills, and acquire the outside resources they need to prosper. They provide hands-on assistance, delivered by successful senior management-level business executives. An advisor becomes immersed in the client enterprise, shoulder to shoulder with the local team – a rewarding arrangement for both parties. By partnering with business owners and taking the time to understand their challenges, IMPACT-NM gives them the skills and knowledge to achieve accelerated growth and greater stability.

Luncheon cost is $15.00 per person, payable by cash, check or major credit card. The meeting is open to the public and reservations are not required.

The NMSU College of Engineering and the New Mexico Space Grant Consortium are sponsoring NASA’s “Driven to Explore” exhibit on Wednesday, January 20 from 5:30-6:30 p.m.  The exhibit will be on the NMSU Campus, between Goddard Hall and Thomas and Brown Hall, adjacent to the Horseshoe.

The exhibit is a mobile multimedia experience showcasing the Shuttle Program, the progress of the International Space Station and benefits of space exploration leading into NASA’s next major program, Constellation. The walking tour includes breathtaking imagery and state-of-the-art models of the Constellation Program’s next-generation launch vehicles and human spacecraft destined for use to explore the moon and beyond.

Driven to Explore has no admission charge and is designed for all ages and venues. The exhibit is wheelchair accessible. Touring the exhibit takes approximately 10 minutes.

See the attached map for directions and parking information.

For more information, contact Linda Fresques, 575-646-2913; fresque@nmsu.edu.