New Mexico State University

New Mexico State University (NMSU) is a public land-grant research university in University Park, New Mexico, United States, beside the city of Las Cruces, and it was founded in 1888 as Las Cruces College.新墨西哥州立大学（英文：New Mexico State University，简称 NMSU）是美国新墨西哥州大学公园的一所公立赠地研究型大学，紧邻拉斯克鲁塞斯市，1888 年以拉斯克鲁塞斯学院之名创办。

It is the oldest public institution of higher education in New Mexico and the state's original land-grant university, and it now operates a statewide system with community colleges in Alamogordo, Carlsbad, Doña Ana County and Grants.它是新墨西哥州历史最悠久的公立高等教育机构，也是该州最初的赠地大学，如今运营一个覆盖全州的体系，在阿拉莫戈多、卡尔斯巴德、多尼亚安娜县与格兰茨设有社区学院。

NMSU enrolled 22,711 students in fall 2024 and offers more than 180 degree programmes, and it is placed in the 1201-1400 band of the QS World University Rankings 2027.2024 年秋季，该校注册学生 22,711 人，开设 180 多个学位项目，并在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中处于第 1201-1400 位区间。

History

• Hiram Hadley, an Indiana-born teacher educated at Earlham College, founded Las Cruces College, which opened on 17 September 1888 with an elementary school, a preparatory school and a business department.海勒姆·哈德利是印第安纳州出身、毕业于厄勒姆学院的教师，他创办了拉斯克鲁塞斯学院，该校于 1888 年 9 月 17 日开学，设有小学部、预科部与商科部。
• In 1889 the Territorial Assembly of New Mexico passed the Rodey Act, which located an agricultural college and experiment station on at least 100 acres near Las Cruces and made it the state's land-grant institution under the Morrill Act.1889 年，新墨西哥领地议会通过《罗迪法案》，在拉斯克鲁塞斯附近划出至少 100 英亩土地设立农学院与实验站，并依《莫里尔法案》将其定为该州赠地院校。
• The new institution was named the New Mexico College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts, and it merged with Hadley's Las Cruces College to open on 21 January 1890 with 35 students and six faculty members.这所新机构定名为新墨西哥农业与机械艺术学院，它与哈德利的拉斯克鲁塞斯学院合并，于 1890 年 1 月 21 日开学，首届共有 35 名学生与 6 名教师。
• The college expected to graduate its first student in 1893, but the only senior, Sam Steel, was murdered before he could receive his diploma.学院原计划在 1893 年送出首位毕业生，但当年唯一的高年级学生萨姆·斯蒂尔在领取文凭之前遇害身亡。
• Classes met in the two-room adobe building of Las Cruces College until February 1891, when McFie Hall, known as Old Main, opened on a 220-acre campus three miles south of town.课程最初在拉斯克鲁塞斯学院那栋两间房的土坯建筑中进行，直到 1891 年 2 月麦克菲楼（俗称老主楼）在城南三英里处 220 英亩的校园落成。
• Old Main burned in 1910, and its cornerstone and ruins still stand beside the flagpole at the centre of the horseshoe that formed the university's first master plan.老主楼于 1910 年毁于火灾，其奠基石与残迹至今仍立在马蹄形校园中轴线旗杆旁，而马蹄形布局正是该校第一份总体规划的核心。
• For its first decades the college concentrated on agriculture, irrigation and mechanic arts for the Rio Grande valley, and students lived and studied in a handful of buildings on open desert land.建校最初数十年，学院面向格兰德河谷教授农业、灌溉与机械工艺，学生在旷野荒漠上的少数几栋建筑中学习与生活。
• In 1898 the NMSU Alumni Association was founded on 24 May, making it one of the oldest organisations associated with the university.1898 年 5 月 24 日，新墨西哥州立大学校友会成立，成为与该校渊源最久的组织之一。
• The Round Up, the student newspaper, was founded in 1907, the same year that the library joined the federal depository programme created in 1813 to give the public free access to government information.学生报纸《综述》创办于 1907 年；同年，该校图书馆加入 1813 年设立的联邦政府文献寄存计划，该计划旨在让公众免费获取政府信息。
• In 1920 students scouted Tortugas Mountain three miles east of campus, built a large letter A from stones and whitewashed it on 1 April, beginning an annual tradition.1920 年，学生们在校园以东三英里的托尔图加斯山选点，用石块垒出巨大的字母 A，并于 4 月 1 日将其刷白，由此开启一年一度的传统。
• The Class of 1939 gave the Victory Bell, which was rung from an open-sided structure on the horseshoe in the 1940s to announce Aggie victories.1939 届毕业生捐赠了胜利钟，二十世纪四十年代它被悬挂在马蹄形广场一座敞棚内，每当农工队获胜便鸣钟相庆。
• In 1951 Branson Hall Library opened to house engineering, business, agriculture, science, map and government collections, and a second main library, Zuhl, followed in 1992.1951 年，布兰森楼图书馆启用，收藏工程、商学、农业、科学、地图与政府文献；第二座主图书馆祖尔图书馆于 1992 年建成。
• Clyde Tombaugh, the astronomer who discovered Pluto in 1930, joined the faculty in 1955 and taught at the university until his retirement in 1973.1930 年发现冥王星的天文学家克莱德·汤博于 1955 年加入该校任教，直至 1973 年退休。
• In 1960 the institution took its present name, New Mexico State University, to reflect the expansion of its programmes beyond agriculture and mechanic arts.1960 年，该校改用现名新墨西哥州立大学，以反映其课程已超出农业与机械工艺的范围。
• The president's holiday reception, begun in 1984, grew into Noche de Luminarias, now one of the largest luminaria displays in New Mexico with more than 6,000 lights.始于 1984 年的校长节日招待会后来发展为「灯火之夜」，如今以 6000 余盏灯成为新墨西哥州规模最大的烛光装置之一。
• The Physical Sciences Laboratory secured a study contract in 2010 with Reaction Engines Limited, a British aerospace firm developing a precooled air-breathing engine for a reusable spaceplane.2010 年，该校物理科学实验室与英国航空航天企业反应发动机公司签订研究合同，后者正在为可重复使用空天飞机研制预冷吸气式发动机。
• Garrey Carruthers, who had been governor of New Mexico from 1987 to 1991, served as president of the university from 2013 to 2018.加里·卡拉瑟斯曾在 1987 年至 1991 年任新墨西哥州州长，其后于 2013 年至 2018 年出任该校校长。
• The Burrell College of Osteopathic Medicine, a private medical school on the main campus, began instruction in August 2016 and graduated its first class in May 2020.位于主校区的私立医学院伯雷尔骨科医学院于 2016 年 8 月开始授课，并于 2020 年 5 月送出首届毕业生。
• Burrell was the first osteopathic medical school in New Mexico and one of only two medical schools in the state, the other being the University of New Mexico's school in Albuquerque.伯雷尔是新墨西哥州第一所骨科医学院，也是全州仅有的两所医学院之一，另一所是位于阿尔伯克基的新墨西哥大学医学院。
• On 1 July 2023 the Aggies joined Conference USA, the sixth athletics conference in the history of the university's football programme.2023 年 7 月 1 日，农工队加入美国联盟，这是该校橄榄球项目历史上所属的第六个体育联盟。
• The women's equestrian team, established in 2004, was cut after the 2016-17 season because of budget reductions across the athletics department.女子马术队成立于 2004 年，因体育部门整体削减预算而在 2016-17 赛季后解散。

Academics

• NMSU is organised into six colleges and a graduate school, namely the College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences, the College of Arts and Sciences, the College of Business, the College of Engineering, the College of Health, Education and Social Transformation, the Honors College and the Graduate School.新墨西哥州立大学下设 6 个学院与 1 个研究生院，分别是农业、消费者与环境科学学院，文理学院，商学院，工程学院，健康、教育与社会转型学院，荣誉学院以及研究生院。
• As of the 2024-25 catalogue the university offered 96 bachelor's, 58 master's and 28 doctoral programmes, more than 180 degrees in total, taught across 54 academic departments and over 4,400 courses.按 2024-25 学年课程目录，该校开设 96 个学士、58 个硕士与 28 个博士项目，学位项目合计逾 180 个，分布在 54 个学系与 4400 多门课程之中。
• In 2024 the university employed 840 full-time faculty members and 3,113 staff, giving a student-to-faculty ratio of about 16 to 1.2024 年，该校有 840 名全职教师与 3113 名职员，生师比约为 16 比 1。
• Fall 2024 enrolment was 22,711 students, and the student body included people from the United States and 71 foreign countries.2024 年秋季在校学生为 22,711 人，学生群体来自美国各地以及 71 个国家。
• NMSU is classified as an R1 doctoral university with very high research spending and doctorate production, and its externally funded research totals about 150 million dollars a year.该校被归为 R1 级博士型大学，科研支出与博士学位授予量均属最高档，每年外部资助的研究经费约为 1.5 亿美元。
• The university estimates its annual economic impact on New Mexico at 1 billion dollars and anchors the southern end of the state's Rio Grande Research Corridor.该校估计其每年对新墨西哥州的经济影响达 10 亿美元，并处于该州格兰德河研究走廊的南端。
• The Agricultural Experiment Station runs a statewide network of nine research facilities that support agriculture, natural resource management and environmental quality.农业实验站运营一个由 9 个研究设施组成的全州网络，支撑农业、自然资源管理与环境质量方面的研究。
• Through the Cooperative Extension Service the university maintains centres or programmes in all 33 counties of New Mexico, a core part of its land-grant mission.通过合作推广服务，该校在新墨西哥州全部 33 个县都设有中心或项目，这是其赠地使命的核心部分。
• The Department of Astronomy operates the Sunspot Solar Observatory and the Apache Point Observatory, the latter hosting the site of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey.天文学系运营太阳黑子太阳观测站与阿帕奇点天文台，后者是斯隆数字巡天项目的所在地。
• NMSU leads the New Mexico NASA Space Grant Consortium and is the only university to reach the platinum level of NASA's Space Alliance Technology Outreach Program.该校牵头新墨西哥州 NASA 太空资助联盟，并且是唯一达到 NASA 太空联盟技术推广计划白金级的高校。
• Research units include the Arrowhead Center for business incubation and technology commercialisation, the Manufacturing Technology and Engineering Center, and the Institute for Energy and Environment.科研单位包括负责企业孵化与技术商业化的箭头中心、制造技术与工程中心，以及能源与环境研究所。
• The Institute for Energy and Environment co-hosts the International Environmental Design Contest, which brings student teams to Las Cruces to design water and energy solutions.能源与环境研究所联合主办国际环境设计竞赛，吸引各校学生团队到拉斯克鲁塞斯设计水资源与能源方案。
• The Klipsch School of Electrical and Computer Engineering is named for the alumnus Paul Klipsch, founder of Klipsch Audio Technologies, and is among the university's best-known departments.克利普什电气与计算机工程学院以校友、克利普什音频技术公司创始人保罗·克利普什命名，是该校最知名的院系之一。
• The Chile Pepper Institute, based at the Fabian Garcia Science Center, continues a breeding tradition that began with Fabian Garcia's release of the New Mexico No. 9 chile in 1913.辣椒研究所设于法比安·加西亚科学中心，延续了法比安·加西亚 1913 年推出「新墨西哥 9 号」辣椒品种以来的育种传统。
• Burrell College and NMSU run a pipeline programme that guarantees qualified NMSU undergraduates a seat at the osteopathic medical school after graduation.伯雷尔学院与该校设有衔接项目，成绩合格的本科生毕业后可保证获得该校骨科医学院的入学名额。
• The Faculty Senate consists of 70 elected members and exercises shared governance over academic policy across the NMSU system, while the Honors College admits students by separate application.校务委员会由 70 名经选举产生的教师组成，在全校学术政策上行使共同治理权；荣誉学院则通过单独申请录取学生。

Campus

• The main campus occupies a core of 900 acres adjacent to, but not within, the city limits of Las Cruces, between Interstate 25 and Interstate 10 in the Chihuahuan Desert.主校区占地 900 英亩，位于拉斯克鲁塞斯市界之外但紧邻市区，地处奇瓦瓦沙漠中的 25 号与 10 号州际公路之间。
• The first master plan laid out a U-shaped drive called the horseshoe around a large lawn, with Hadley Hall, the main administration building, at its head and Old Main's remains at its centre.首份总体规划围绕大片草坪设计了一条马蹄形环路，行政主楼哈德利楼位于顶端，老主楼遗迹则位于中央。
• The campus is framed by the Organ Mountains to the east and Tortugas Mountain, site of the whitewashed A, and it shelters a nesting population of Swainson's hawks protected by federal law.校园东侧以风琴山脉为背景，托尔图加斯山即刷白字母 A 的所在；校内还栖息着受联邦法律保护的斯温氏鵟繁殖种群。
• Branson Hall Library, built in 1951, houses engineering, business, agriculture and government collections, while Zuhl Library, built in 1992, serves the arts, humanities and sciences.建于 1951 年的布兰森楼图书馆收藏工程、商学、农业与政府文献，建于 1992 年的祖尔图书馆则服务艺术、人文与科学学科。
• The NMSU Arthropod Museum in Skeen Hall holds more than 150,000 research specimens and 5,000 teaching specimens, and the University Museum, established in 1959, documents regional culture and history.斯肯楼内的节肢动物博物馆藏有 15 万余件研究标本与 5000 件教学标本；建于 1959 年的大学博物馆则记录本地与区域文化历史。
• The Klipsch Museum preserves more than 80 years of audio engineering, and the Zuhl Collection combines an art gallery with a natural history museum of petrified wood, fossils and minerals.克利普什博物馆保存了 80 余年的音频工程资料；祖尔收藏则兼具美术馆与自然史博物馆功能，展出硅化木、化石与矿物。
• The Fabian Garcia Science Center, south of University Avenue, includes 48 acres of horse farm, the Chile Pepper Institute garden, vineyards, greenhouses and algal biofuel research equipment.大学大道以南的法比安·加西亚科学中心包括 48 英亩马场、辣椒研究所试验园、葡萄园、温室以及藻类生物燃料研究设备。
• About six miles south of campus the Leyendecker Plant Science Research Center occupies 203 acres, and the university also runs five campuses and a distance-learning centre in Albuquerque.校园以南约六英里处是占地 203 英亩的莱恩德克植物科学研究中心，该校另在阿尔伯克基设有远程学习中心并运营五个校区。

Reputation

• NMSU is placed in the 1201-1400 band of the QS World University Rankings 2027, the band assigned to it in the 2027 edition of the table.在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中，新墨西哥州立大学位于第 1201-1400 位区间，这是该榜 2027 年版为其划定的区间。
• The Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2027 placed NMSU in the 701-800 band, its strongest showing among the four major global tables.2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名将该校列入第 701-800 位区间，这是它在四大全球榜单中的最好成绩。
• U.S. News ranked NMSU 987th in its 2026-2027 global universities list and 222nd among national universities in its 2026 college rankings, ahead of the University of New Mexico at 242nd.在 2026-2027 年度 U.S. News 全球大学榜单中该校位列第 987 位；其 2026 年美国国内大学排名则列第 222 位，高于排在第 242 位的新墨西哥大学。
• NMSU did not enter the main table of the 2026 Academic Ranking of World Universities, so no ARWU rank is recorded for it in this entry.该校未进入 2026 年软科世界大学学术排名主榜，因此本条目不记录其软科名次。
• OpenAlex credits the university with 40,851 works and 2,402,246 citations, figures that place it among the larger public research producers in the southwestern United States.OpenAlex 记录该校有 40,851 项研究成果与 2,402,246 次引用，这使其成为美国西南部科研产出较多的公立高校之一。
• U.S. News ranked several NMSU graduate programmes in the top 200 nationally in 2026, including engineering at 149, nursing master's at 139, nursing doctoral at 109 and education at 125.2026 年，U.S. News 将该校多个研究生项目列入全美前 200 名，其中工程第 149 位、护理硕士第 139 位、护理博士第 109 位、教育第 125 位。
• A 2017 National Science Foundation report ranked NMSU first among minority-serving institutions in federal funding for science and engineering activities.美国国家科学基金会 2017 年的一份报告显示，该校在少数族裔服务院校中获得的联邦科学与工程资助位居第一。
• In 2016 the university stood among the top ten institutions awarding bachelor's degrees to Hispanics in communications technologies, agriculture, hospitality management, engineering technologies and education.2016 年，该校在传播技术、农业、酒店管理、工程技术以及教育等学科授予西班牙裔学生学士学位的数量位列全美前十。
• NMSU is a designated Hispanic-serving institution, and Washington Monthly ranked it 16th nationally in 2024 for its support of women in STEM, particularly chemical engineering.该校是经认定的西班牙裔服务院校；《华盛顿月刊》在 2024 年因其对理工科女性（尤其是化学工程）的支持而将其列为全美第 16 位。

Student life

• NMSU teams are called the Aggies, a nickname drawn from the university's agricultural origins, and the official colours are crimson and white.该校运动队名为「农工队」，绰号源于学校的农业出身，官方校色为深红与白色。
• The Victory Bell, a gift of the Class of 1939, was rededicated in 1972 as the Engineer's Bell and is now mounted behind the south goalpost of Aggie Memorial Stadium.1939 届赠送的胜利钟于 1972 年改称工程师之钟，如今固定安装在农工纪念体育场南侧球门柱后方。
• Each spring and autumn the Alumni Association holds a ring ceremony at the Aggie Memorial Tower, where students receive the official Balfour ring bearing the three-triangle seal.每年春秋两季，校友会在农工纪念塔举行授戒典礼，学生在此获赠刻有三三角校徽的官方鲍尔弗戒指。
• The three triangles of the seal stand for teaching, research and service and for the Spanish, American Indian and Anglo cultures of New Mexico.校徽上的三个三角形分别代表教学、研究与服务，也象征新墨西哥州的西班牙、美洲原住民与盎格鲁三种文化。
• At every home football kickoff since the mid-1990s a Wonder Dog has retrieved the kicking tee, a tradition begun by Smoki, a border collie mix trained by alumnus Joel Sims.自二十世纪九十年代中期起，每场主场橄榄球开球时都会有一只「神奇犬」取回开球座；这一传统由校友乔尔·西姆斯训练的边境牧羊混血犬斯莫基开创。
• Smoki retired in 2002 and died in 2005, and after a hiatus a four-year-old border collie named Striking was chosen in 2012 and debuted on 30 August against Sacramento State.斯莫基 2002 年退役、2005 年去世；中断数年后，一只名叫斯特赖金的四岁边境牧羊犬于 2012 年当选，并在 8 月 30 日对阵萨克拉门托州立大学的比赛中首次亮相。
• Noche de Luminarias opens the holiday season with more than 6,000 luminarias stretching from the Educational Services Building along the International Mall to the Corbett Center Student Union.「灯火之夜」以 6000 多盏烛灯开启假日季，灯阵从教育服务大楼沿国际广场一直延伸到科贝特中心学生会。
• The Round Up has published since 1907, KRUX radio has been student-run since 1989, and KRWG-TV, a PBS member station owned by the university, carries the student newscast News22.《综述》自 1907 年发行，KRUX 电台自 1989 年起由学生运营，该校拥有的 PBS 成员台 KRWG-TV 则播出学生新闻节目《新闻 22》。
• The Associated Students of New Mexico State University elects a president, a vice president and 30 senators and manages a budget of more than 1 million dollars, while Greek life involves more than 600 active members.新墨西哥州立大学学生联合会选举主席、副主席与 30 名参议员，管理逾 100 万美元预算；希腊字母社团则拥有 600 多名活跃成员。
• The Pride of New Mexico marching band fields about 200 musicians, dancers and auxiliary members, and the Aggies contest the Rio Grande Rivalry with the University of New Mexico and the Battle of I-10 with UTEP.「新墨西哥之傲」行进乐队约有 200 名乐手、舞者与辅助成员；农工队与新墨西哥大学争夺格兰德河对抗赛，并与德克萨斯大学埃尔帕索分校进行 10 号公路之战。

Notable people

• Hiram Hadley founded Las Cruces College in 1888 and became the first president of the institution, while Sam Steel, its only senior in 1893, was killed before graduation and is remembered as the first student the college lost.海勒姆·哈德利 1888 年创办拉斯克鲁塞斯学院并出任首任校长；萨姆·斯蒂尔是 1893 年学院唯一的高年级学生，在毕业前遇害，被视为该校失去的第一位学生。
• Clyde Tombaugh taught at NMSU from 1955 to 1973 after discovering Pluto at the Lowell Observatory in 1930, and the university holds papers and instruments connected with his work.克莱德·汤博 1930 年在洛厄尔天文台发现冥王星，1955 年至 1973 年在该校任教，学校收藏有与其研究相关的文件与仪器。
• Paul Wilbur Klipsch, who studied electrical engineering at the college, founded Klipsch Audio Technologies and lent his name to the university's school of electrical and computer engineering.保罗·威尔伯·克利普什曾在该校学习电气工程，后来创办克利普什音频技术公司，该校电气与计算机工程学院即以他命名。
• Alvy Ray Smith, a co-founder of Pixar, studied computer science at NMSU before working on computer graphics that reshaped animated film.皮克斯联合创始人阿尔维·雷·史密斯曾在新墨西哥州立大学学习计算机科学，其后投身计算机图形学研究，改变了动画电影的制作方式。
• Jaron Lanier, a pioneer of virtual reality and a writer on digital culture, is an NMSU alumnus who has argued for human-centred design of the internet.贾伦·拉尼尔是虚拟现实先驱与数字文化作家，也是该校校友，长期主张以人为中心设计互联网。
• Kevin Johnson, who earned a bachelor's degree at NMSU, served as president and chief executive of Starbucks Corporation from 2008 to 2017.凯文·约翰逊在该校获得学士学位，2008 年至 2017 年任星巴克公司总裁兼首席执行官。
• Kathy Lueders, an NMSU graduate, became the first woman to lead NASA's human spaceflight programme as associate administrator in 2020.凯西·卢德斯毕业于该校，2020 年成为首位以副局长身份主管 NASA 载人航天计划的女性。
• Sidney Gutierrez, a NASA astronaut who flew on missions in 1991 and 1994, graduated from NMSU before joining the space programme.西德尼·古铁雷斯是 NASA 宇航员，曾于 1991 年与 1994 年执行航天任务，在进入航天计划前毕业于该校。
• Jerry Apodaca, governor of New Mexico from 1975 to 1979, and Garrey Carruthers, governor from 1987 to 1991 and university president from 2013 to 2018, both attended NMSU.杰里·阿波达卡在 1975 年至 1979 年任新墨西哥州州长，加里·卡拉瑟斯在 1987 年至 1991 年任州长并于 2013 年至 2018 年任该校校长，两人都曾就读于新墨西哥州立大学。
• Antonya Nelson, a fiction writer named by The New Yorker among the twenty best young American novelists, has taught in the university's creative writing programme.安东尼娅·纳尔逊是小说家，曾被《纽约客》列为全美二十位最佳青年小说家之一，并在该校创意写作项目任教。