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The 2^nd Annual National Security Technology Conference will be held at the Hotel Encanto de Las Cruces on March 2-4, 2010.  The conference is hosted by the National Security Technology Incubator (NSTI) operated by the Arrowhead Center at New Mexico State University. NSTI is funded by the Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration division. NSTI promotes the development of new and expanding technology business in New Mexico.

The conference will introduce companies to major contractors and government decision makers working in the national security sectors. Panels will address various teaming arrangements and potential funding opportunities, and includes a classified session on cyber security. If you are a technology company wishing to do business in this region’s billion dollar industry, you should plan on attending and/or exhibiting.

Detailed information including the conference agenda, speakers and contractors attending, and registration information is available on the NSTI conference website.

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.

Release Courtesy of NMSU Communications & Marketing Services

Photo Courtesy of NMSU

Bulldozers are rolling through a chunk of desert owned by New Mexico State University. The heavy equipment is building a new road and laying utilities to better connect NMSU’s Arrowhead Business and Research Park with the rest of campus. The project is also expected to help attract new investments, new clients and eventually thousands of high-paying jobs to the park.

The road will extend south for approximately one mile from the intersection of Payne and Wells streets to Sam Steel Way, which runs parallel to Interstate 10. Construction is scheduled to be complete in March 2010.

The project represents nearly $2 million in investments, including a $900,000 grant from the U.S. Economic Development Administration. Other money for the project came from the state of New Mexico, local road funds, the New Mexico Department of Transportation and NMSU.

“The road will really open up the whole park,” said Kevin Boberg, Arrowhead Center’s CEO. “We can’t do any other development without the utility backbone the road delivers.”

The business and research park is located on the south end of NMSU’s Las Cruces campus between Interstates 10 and 25. The first 11 acres of the 257-acre park are already in development. The most recently completed building, Spaceplex 2, is home to General Dynamics and opened last summer.  The next building scheduled for construction will be nearly 8,000 square feet and be broken into smaller, 1,700-square-foot pads for businesses intending to establish themselves before jumping into larger spaces.

Other plans for the research park include working with the Las Cruces Public School District to construct an early college high school where high school students could take college-level courses for credit.

“Without the infrastructure, we wouldn’t be in a position to take advantage of these opportunities,” said Vickie Galindo, Arrowhead Center’s director of workforce innovation and business development. “We would not have been able to make this happen without the EDA and help from New Mexico Secretary of Economic Development Fred Mondragon.”

Article Courtesy of the Las Cruces Bulletin

Denten Park

MountainView Regional Medical Center announced last week that health care executive Denten Park has been appointed as its chief executive officer. Park has served as the hospital’s chief operating officer since June 2008.

“It’s been a pleasure to serve this community, medical staff and hospital staff over the past 18 months,” Park said in a statement. “We have some of the finest physicians and employees in Las Cruces, and I welcome the opportunity to work with them to continue the success and outstanding care they provide patients at MountainView.”

On Jan. 14, after almost two years at MountainView, then-CEO Randall Hempling quit to take a position as CEO of Shasta Regional Medical Center in Redding, Calif. Subsequently, Carol Schmoyer of Western Medical Center in Bullhead City, Ariz., served as the hospital’s interim CEO. Schmoyer was replaced by veteran health care executive Jim Geist, who recently stepped down.

“We’re very supportive of Denten, and are looking forward to the advantages of his strengths and history with our hospital and community,” said Dr. Ismael Lopez, chairman of the hospital’s board of trustees, in a statement.

Prior to his arrival in Las Cruces, Park was associate CEO at Payson Regional Medical Center in Payson, Ariz., and interim CEO at Mountain West Medical Center in Tooele, Utah. He served as the administrator of both a long-term care facility and a center for developmentally disabled in Evanston, Wyo. He also has a background in private retail business.

“We’re delighted,” said Dr. Denise Leonardi, chief of medical staff at MountainView. “Denten brings continuity and a fresh perspective.”

Park has a bachelor’s of arts degree and master’s degree in business administration from New Mexico State University.