NMSU Wins Funds to Study Algae-Based Jet Fuel

By Justin Bannister, University Communications for the Las Cruces Sun-News The U.S. military wants New Mexico State University to find improved ways to turn algae into a sustainable source for jet fuel. The research project is part of a $2.346 million grant funded by the Air Force where NMSU will study better ways to grow [...]

Statewide Access to New Mexico’s Supercomputer Launched

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” [...]