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New Mexico State University Office of the Vice President for Research

About NMSU Research Our portfolio includes over 1000 externally-funded research projects and expenditures of over $107M. Research is funded from federal sources and agencies including Dept. of Agriculture (USDA), Dept. of Defense (DoD) including Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) and Office of Naval Research (ONR), Dept. of Education; Dept. of Energy (DoE) including Los Alamos National Laboratories (LANL) and Sandia National Laboratories (SNL), National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), National Institutes of Health (NIH), and National Science Foundation (NSF). Research Institutes and Centers NMSU is home to several national Research and Science Centers including: Center for Animal Health and Food Safety; Carlsbad Environmental Monitoring & Research Center (CEMRC); Center for Bio-mediated and Bio-inspired Geotechnics (CBBG); IDeA Networks of Biomedical Research Excellence (INBRE); iCREDITS: Interdisciplinary Center of Research Excellence in Design of Intelligent Technologies for Smart Grids; National Alliance for Water Innovation (NAWI); Physical Science Laboratory (PSL); Re-inventing the Nation’s Urban Water Infrastructure (ReNUWIt); Transportation Consortium of South-Central States (Tran-SET). Institutional Research Strengths In certain fields, NMSU has a critical mass of researchers engaged in cutting-edge work. These faculty and student researchers, from across the colleges, are engaged in collaborative efforts funded through external sources.

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Arts and Humanities Energy, Environment, and Water Food Production, Safety, Science, & Security Transforming STEM Education

Emerging Areas of of Research Opportunity NMSU is internally funding and developing new research groups in emerging areas of opportunity including

Cybersecurity Biomedical Informatics and Telehealth Quantum Information Science Space Commercialization

Endowed Chairs and Professorships For the academic year 2019-2020, NMSU has 28 endowed chairs, 40 endowed professorships, and 21 Regents Professorships. Doctoral Students For the academic year 2019-2020, 710 (MS) and 125 (PhD) graduate degrees were awarded. Currently there are 680 students pursuing the doctorate.

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New Mexico State University Office of the Vice President for Research

Institutional Research Strengths The mission of the Office of the Vice President for Research (OVPR) is to advance university success in research, scholarship, and creative activity through exemplary service to the faculty, staff, and student corps. The following research areas are institutional strengths and lie at the intersection of having a critical mass of active inter-disciplinary researchers at NMSU, being a national priority or challenge, and aligning with the goals of NMSU LEADS 2025. 1. Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Strengths and interests at NMSU include: AI, bioinformatics, data mining, knowledge representation and reasoning, machine learning and deep learning, sensing and sensor development, signal processing, and applications of AI in agriculture, cybersecurity, and finance. This area aligns with:

Department of Defense, Digital Modernization Strategy [DOD1] and Modernization Priorities [DOD2] Department of Energy, Office of Science, Initiatives of Special Priority [DOE1] National Science Board, Vision 2030 [NSB] National Science Foundation's 10 Big Ideas: Harnessing the Data Revolution [NSF1] National Science and Technology Council, National Artificial Intelligence Research and Development Strategic Plan [NSTC] President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology, Industries of the Future [PCAST1]

2. Energy, Environment, and Water Strengths and interests at NMSU include: (Energy) photovoltaics, smart grids; (Environment) environmental microbiology, policy, wastewater treatment; (Water) conservation, desalination, management, efficient water use in food processing and oil and gas production, i.e. produced water. This area aligns with:

Department of Agriculture, Challenge Areas: Water [USDA] Department of Energy, Office of Science, Initiatives of Special Priority [DOE2] National Academy of Engineering, Grand Challenges for Engineering: Make Solar Energy Economical [NAE1], Manage the Nitrogen Cycle

[NAE2], and Provide Access to Clean Water [NAE3] NMSU LEADS2025, Global Challenges: Energy, Water and Natural Resources [LEADS1] USAID, Grand Challenge for Development: Powering Agriculture [USAID1] and Water and Energy for Food [USAID2]

3. Food Production, Safety, Science, and Security Strengths and interests at NMSU include: agriculture and food production in arid lands, food safety, food science and technology, food security including supply chain and logistics, food sustainability including bioprocessing and microbiology. This area aligns with:

Department of Agriculture, Challenge Areas: Food Safety and Food Security [USDA] National Academy of Engineering, Grand Challenges for Engineering: Manage the Nitrogen Cycle [NAE2] and Provide Access to Clean Water

[NAE3] National Science Foundation10 Big Ideas: Understanding the Rules of Life [NSF2] NMSU LEADS2025, Global Challenges: Food and Agriculture [LEADS1] USAID, Grand Challenge for Development: Powering Agriculture [USAID1] and Securing Water for Food [USAID3]

4. Transforming STEM Education Strengths and interests at NMSU include: career pathways, K-12 family engagement, curriculum, extra-curricular, professional/teacher development, teaching diverse populations, and pedagogy. This area aligns with:

National Academy of Engineering, Grand Challenges for Engineering: Advance Personalized Learning [NAE4] National Science Foundation10 Big Ideas: Enhancing Science and Engineering Education through Diversity [NSF3] NMSU LEADS2025 Objective 3.3: Improve PK-20 Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) education [LEADS2]

5. Art and Humanities Strengths and interests at NMSU include: community partnerships, enhancing tradition and culture, and the art program and museum which houses the country’s largest collection of Mexican retablos. This area aligns with: NMSU LEADS2025 Objective 2.2 [LEADS3]

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New Mexico State University Office of the Vice President for Research

Emerging Areas of Research Opportunity The vision of the Office of the Vice President for Research (OVPR) is to advance a culture of excellence in research, scholarship, and creative activity. As NMSU aspires to reach the highest Carnegie research status (R1), the OVPR coordinates investment and commits resources to building strong programs in emerging areas of research opportunity that have considerable potential for national impact and long term growth. 1. Cybersecurity Critical infrastructure, military systems, and other strategically important national security systems are becoming increasingly dependent on vulnerable networked computer systems. Protecting these systems against growing cyber threats is one of the great challenges of the 21st century. This area aligns with:

Department of Defense, Digital Modernization Strategy [DOD1] and Modernization Priorities [DOD2] Department of Homeland Security, Strategic Plan for Fiscal Years 2020-2024 [DHS] National Academy of Engineering, Grand Challenges for Engineering: Secure Cyberspace [NAE5] NMSU LEADS2025, Global Challenges: Cybersecurity [LEADS1]

2. Biomedical Informatics and Telehealth Biomedical informatics (BMI) is defined as “the interdisciplinary field that studies and pursues the effective uses of biomedical data, information, and knowledge for scientific inquiry, problem solving, and decision making, driven by efforts to improve human health” [Kulikowski]. Telehealth is defined as "the use of electronic information and telecommunication technologies to support long-distance clinical health care, patient and professional health-related education, public health, and health administration" [HRSA]. This area aligns with:

Centers for Disease Control, Programs for Telehealth [CDC] National Academy of Engineering, Grand Challenges for Engineering: Advance Health Informatics [NAE6] National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering, Scientific Program Area [NBIB] NMSU LEADS2025, Global Challenges: Healthy Border Issues and Health [LEADS1] National Institutes of Health, Strategic Plan for Data Science [NIH]

3. Quantum Information Science Quantum Information Science (QIS) is an emerging field with the potential to cause revolutionary advances in fields of science and engineering involving computation, communication, precision measurement, and fundamental quantum science. This area aligns with:

Department of Defense, Modernization Priorities [DOD2] Department of Energy, Office of Science, Initiatives of Special Priority: Quantum Information Science [DOE3] National Academy of Engineering, Grand Challenges for Engineering: Engineer the Tools for Scientific Discovery [NAE7] National Science Board, Vision 2030 [NSB] National Science Foundation10 Big Ideas: The Quantum Leap [NSF4] President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology, Industries of the Future (IotF) [PCAST1]

4. Space Commercialization Commercial use of space is "the provision of goods or services of commercial value by using equipment sent into Earth orbit or outer space. Examples of the commercial use of space include satellite navigation, satellite television and commercial satellite imagery" [WIKI]. This area aligns with:

Department of Defense, Modernization Priority, [DOD2] NMSU, a Space-Grant University [NMSU] NASA, Space Technology Grand Challenges: Economical Space Access [NASA1], Plan for Sustained Lunar Exploration and

Development [NASA2]

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References [CDC] Centers for Disease Control, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Programs for Telehealth, "Telehealth in Rural Communities," https://www.cdc.gov/chronicdisease/resources/publications/factsheets/telehealth-in-rural-communities.htm [DOD1] Department of Defense, "Digital Modernization Strategy," https://media.defense.gov/2019/Jul/12/2002156622/-1/-1/1/DOD-DIGITAL-MODERNIZATION-STRATEGY-2019.PDF [DOD2] Department of Defense, "Modernization Priorities," https://www.cto.mil/modernization-priorities/ [DOE1] Department of Energy, Office of Science, "Initiatives of Special Priority: Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning,” https://www.energy.gov/science/initiatives/artificial-intelligence-and-machine-learning [DOE2] Department of Energy, Office of Science, "Initiatives of Special Priority: Advanced and Sustainable Energy,” https://www.energy.gov/science/initiatives/advanced-and-sustainable-energy [DOE3] Department of Energy, Office of Science, "Initiatives of Special Priority: Quantum Information Science,” https://www.energy.gov/science/initiatives/quantum-information-science [DHS] Department of Homeland Security, “The DHS Strategic Plan Fiscal Years 2020-2024,” https://www.dhs.gov/sites/default/files/publications/19_0702_plcy_dhs-strategic-plan-fy20-24.pdf [Kulikowski] C. A. Kulikowski, et. al., "AMIA Board white paper: definition of biomedical informatics and specification of core competencies for graduate education in the discipline," Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, vol. 19, issue 6, Nov. 2012, pp. 931–938, https://academic.oup.com/jamia/article/19/6/931/729127 [LEADS1] New Mexico State University, "LEADS 2025: Global Challenges” https://www-1888.nmsu.edu/LEADS/ [LEADS2] New Mexico State University, "LEADS 2025: Objective 3.3: Improve PK-20 science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) education,” https://www-1888.nmsu.edu/LEADS/goal3.html [LEADS3] New Mexico State University, "LEADS 2025: Objective 2.2: Intentionally grow humanities, social sciences and creative arts to achieve comprehensive excellence in research and creative activity,” https://www-1888.nmsu.edu/LEADS/goal2.html [NAE1] The National Academy of Engineering, "Grand Challenges for Engineering: Make Solar Energy Economical,” http://www.engineeringchallenges.org/challenges/solar.aspx [NAE2] The National Academy of Engineering, "Grand Challenges for Engineering: Manage the Nitrogen Cycle,” http://www.engineeringchallenges.org/9132.aspx [NAE3] The National Academy of Engineering, "Grand Challenges for Engineering: Provide Access to Clean Water,” http://www.engineeringchallenges.org/challenges/water.aspx [NAE4] The National Academy of Engineering, " Advance Personalized Learning,” http://www.engineeringchallenges.org/challenges/learning.aspx [NAE5] The National Academy of Engineering, "Grand Challenges for Engineering: Secure Cyberspace,” http://www.engineeringchallenges.org/challenges/cyberspace.aspx [NAE6] The National Academy of Engineering, "Grand Challenges for Engineering: Advance Health Informatics,” http://www.engineeringchallenges.org/challenges/informatics.aspx [NAE7] The National Academy of Engineering, "Grand Challenges for Engineering: Engineer the Tools of Scientific Discovery,” http://www.engineeringchallenges.org/8965.aspx [NASA1] National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Space Technology Grand Challenges: Economical Space Access, https://www.nasa.gov/pdf/503466main_space_tech_grand_challenges_12_02_10.pdf

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[NASA2] National Aeronautics and Space Administration, “NASA’s Plan for Sustained Lunar Exploration and Development,” https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/atoms/files/a_sustained_lunar_presence_nspc_report4220final.pdf [NIBIB] National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering, Scientific Program Area, https://www.nibib.nih.gov/research-funding/division-health-informatics-technologies-dhit [NIH] National Institute of Health, “Strategic Plan for Data Science,” https://datascience.nih.gov/strategicplan [NSTC] National Science and Technology Council, "National Artificial Intelligence Research and Development Strategic Plan," https://www.nitrd.gov/pubs/National-AI-RD-Strategy-2019.pdf [NMSU] NASA Space Grant Consortium, https://www.nasa.gov/stem/spacegrant/home/Space_Grant_Consortium_Websites.html#NM [HRSA] Health Resources & Services Administration, https://www.hrsa.gov/rural-health/telehealth [NSB] National Science Board, "Vision 2030," https://www.nsf.gov/nsb/publications/2020/nsb202015.pdf [NSF1] National Science Foundation, "NSF's 10 Big Ideas: Harnessing the Data Revolution," https://www.nsf.gov/news/special_reports/big_ideas/harnessing.jsp [NSF2] National Science Foundation, "NSF's 10 Big Ideas: Understanding the Rules of Life," https://www.nsf.gov/news/special_reports/big_ideas/life.jsp [NSF3] National Science Foundation, "NSF's 10 Big Ideas: Enhancing Science and Engineering Education through Diversity," https://www.nsf.gov/news/special_reports/big_ideas/includes.jsp [NSF4] National Science Foundation, "NSF's 10 Big Ideas: Quantum Leap," https://www.nsf.gov/news/special_reports/big_ideas/quantum.jsp [PCAST1] President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology, "Industries of the Future (IotF)," https://science.osti.gov/-/media/_/pdf/about/pcast/202006/PCAST_June_2020_Report.pdf [USAID1] USAID, "Grand Challenge for Development: Powering Agriculture," https://poweringag.org [USAID2] USAID, Grand Challenge for Development: Water and Energy for Food," https://we4f.org [USAID3] USAID, "Grand Challenge for Development: Securing Water for Food," https://securingwaterforfood.org [USDA] Department of Agriculture, "Challenge Areas: Food Safety, Food Security, and "Water," https://nifa.usda.gov/challenge-areas [WIKI] Wikipedia, "Commercial use of space," https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commercial_use_of_space