The Garrey E. and Katherine T. Carruthers Chair in Economic Development, established in 2004 with a generous contribution from the donors, is providing an opportunity to help foster partnerships with New Mexico laboratories and other institutions of higher learning, create jobs, enhance student education, recruit and retain faculty, and connect ideas with capital.

In endowing the Chair, Garrey Carruthers stated: "I think it's extremely important that if you have had some success in your life as a result of having received a fine education at a university, that you return some of that to the university, Kathy and I have been fortunate in business and I have to attribute part of that fortune to the fact that I attended New Mexico State University."

In connecting ideas with capital, we are pleased to announce The Changing Face of Economic Development. Throughout this academic year, the Seminar Series will bring in nationally recognized business people to address opportunities generating enthusiasm among students—yes, you can get to there from here-- for all of us as members of a growing and thriving community.