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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.

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.

Career Connections is a two day Career Fair, cosponsored by the College of Engineering and Career Services. It will be held January 26 & 27, 2010 in the Corbett Center Ballrooms from 9:00 AM - 3:00 PM.

Photo by Darren Phillips

Tuesday, January 26, offers a forum for discussions between employers and candidates with majors in Business, Agriculture and Liberal Arts. Wednesday, January 27, focuses on Engineering, Science and Technology majors. The event will take place from 9:00 am - 3:00 pm on both days.

Career Connections offers excellent opportunities for candidates of all academic classifications to network with employers in different career fields. It provides an avenue for students who are unsure about choosing a career to directly interact with employers who will share up-to-date information on their organizations and related opportunities.

In addition to providing general information, employers may be willing to discuss opportunities for internships, cooperative education positions (co-ops), or professional employment. Those seeking candidates in multiple disciplines may wish to attend both days. In any event, candidates will have the advantage of initiating job searches at a convenient location where many employers will be present.

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

For more information, contact Roseanne Bensley, Event Coordinator, Career Services, (575) 646-1631 or by e-mail: connect@nmsu.edu.

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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.”