In the Press
- New Game from UConn Extension Helps Youth Discover Biotechnology
May 27, 2024. A new biotechnology game created by UConn Extension, in cooperation with the Learning Games Laboratory at New Mexico State University, allows youth to imagine and explore career opportunities in a biotechnology lab.
- NMSU launches free "Learning Games Lab Toolkit"
Nov 26, 2024. NMSU's Extension launched the free Learning Games Lab Toolkit to help teachers better support students in communicating ideas and using digital games to further their education.
- NMSU's Learning Games Lab celebrating 20th anniversary
Aug 21, 2024. The lab, which designs and tests video games for kids, will celebrate with a party on September 13 at Gerald Thomas Hall.
- NMSU Extension launches web version of financial literacy game
November 12, 2024. High Plains Journal.
- NMSU launches online financial literacy game
October 11, 2024. Living in debt is spooky. So that's why New Mexico State University created an interactive online game to teach you how to control your finances.
- NMSU launches interactive online tool for improving food safety
July 29, 2024. A team from the New Mexico State University Cooperative Extension Service has developed a new training program to assist entrepreneurs who produce food products.
- NMSU Extension launches food safety video game for kids
April 18, 2024. A new video game that aims to young kids and teens about food safety was created by a team from the New Mexico State University Cooperative Extension Service.
- A visit to NMSU’s Learning Games Lab
February 21, 2024. The lab employs 28 people, including some students alongside professional game developers, and nearly every aspect of the finished products are fashioned in-house.
- Support Family Health with Teacher Approved Apps and Evidence-Based Activities
January 26, 2024. New Mexico State University (NMSU) developed Jungle Gym to help young children ages 0-5 develop motor skills and learn how to describe and practice movement patterns.
- NMSU team introduces virtual lab for middle schoolers to build insect collections
Nov 29, 2023. New Mexico State University (NMSU) announced the development of the Virtual Insect Collection Lab by a team from New Mexico State University, tailored for middle school students and educators.
- NMSU recognizes alumni with Distinguished Alumni Awards
Sep 6, 2023. The 2023 Distinguished Alumni Awards recipients encompass a wide range of accomplished individuals, including Jeanne Gleason from the College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences
- Team from NMSU wins award for “Don’t Wash Your Chicken” project
Jun 26, 2023. Innovative Media Research and Extension team wins national award for the Don't Wash Your Chicken project at the Association for Communication Excellence's annual conference.
- Food safety game gets U.S. grant
November 14, 2022. New Mexico State University will develop the game through its Learning Games Lab, which has developed many educational games.
- Video games being introduced into classrooms at Ysleta ISD
November 28, 2022. As a growing number of schools embrace video games as a teaching tool, NMSU is helping to make that transition possible.
- Unpeeled: The Case Files of Maya McCluen Game is Available
Sept 20, 2021. UConn researchers and Extension educators teamed up with New Mexico State University Learning Games Lab to create an interactive learning experience to teach consumers what common, confusing food labels actually mean.
- NMSU design studio creates educational technology for national, international audiences
Las Cruces Sun-News, August 17, 2019. Faculty in the department collaborate with experts across the U.S. to create educational tools not only for K-12 and college students but also for adult learners and industry professionals.
- NMSU Math Snacks program films teacher training video with help of students
July 17, 2019. The “Teaching With” video will showcase how students respond to the game, and demonstrate how to integrate the game within classroom instruction.
- Online database shares information about rangeland plants on Navajo Nation
The Farmington Daily Times, May 4, 2019. Our web database for rangeland plants found within the boundaries of the Navajo Nation is designed to help people identify plants and to help rangeland ecology and sustainability.
- NMSU launches mobile-accessible web database of Navajo Nation rangeland plants
NMSU News Center, April 1, 2019. In collaboration with Gerald Moore of Navajo Tri-State Extension, our team launched a mobile-accessible web database, Selected Plants of Navajo Rangelands, at navajorange.nmsu.edu, including spoken and written Navajo/Diné plant names.
- NMSU Math Snacks program uses video games to teach algebra
Las Cruces Sun-News. December 8, 2018. Researchers recently completed their first round of observations in local classrooms. Those observations will serve as baseline data.
- NMSU Arrowhead Center offers free classroom materials to elementary teachers in NM
Las Cruces Sun-News, February 20, 2018. We created animated videos for this Innoventure Jr. curriculum.
- Innovative Media Research and Extension wins WEDA Award of Excellence
The Western Extension Directors Association conferred the 2017 award on NMSU's Innovative Media Research and Extension for their outreach educational work addressing issues in the Western states.
- NMSU Media Productions Develops Outreach Materials on Water Management
Las Cruces Sun-News, January 29, 2017. We are part of a prestigious integrated USDA-National Institute of Food and Agriculture project to explore the safe use of nontraditional irrigation water on food crops.
- Research Shows NMSU's Math Snacks Games Improve Student Learning
KRWG TV, June 23, 2016. Research on learning gains documents effectiveness of Math Snacks games and related inquiry-based activities on learners' understandings of ratios, coordinate plane, and number systems.
- NMSU Games Lab's Latest App Strikes Gold
Las Cruces Sun-News, July 24, 2016. Night of the Living Debt, our financial literacy game, wins Gold at the International Serious Play conference
- Learning Games Lab Releases Virtual Labs for iPad
Grant County Beat, December 2, 2016. Eight modules let students explore laboratory techniques and concepts important in many scientific disciplines, including food science, without the need for a physical laboratory.
- Fit Kids App Wrap: ‘MotionMaze,’ ‘Eat-And-Move-O-Matic’
Time Warner Cable News, February 02, 2015
- NMSU Promotes STEM-Learning Through Learning Games Lab 'Think Tanks'
Las Cruces Sun-News, June 22, 2013
- NMSU Games Lab Director Offers Holiday Game-Buying Tips
Las Cruces Sun-News, November 25, 2009
- Video Games Get Kids Off Sofa
Las Cruces Sun-News, April 14, 2008
- The Game Master
NMSU Research and Resources Magazine, April 2006