List of New Mexico State University people
This is a list of notable people affiliated with New Mexico State University. Faculty and staff Reta Beebe - professor emeritus in the Astronomy Department, best known for participation in the Voyager mission David Boje - author; current NMSU endowed Bank of America professor of management Garrey Carruthers - former NMSU President and Dean of College of Business; former governor of New Mexico David Clements - conspiracy theorist James Cuffey - former professor in astronomy, known for photoelectric photometry Frank Harary - mathematician, specialized in graph theory Delano Lewis - founding director of New Mexico State University's International Relations Institute Mark Medoff - playwright, screenwriter, film and theatre director, actor, and professor Antonya Nelson - English professor at NMSU; author Burl Noggle - professor, American historian Cyrus Nowrasteh - screenwriter and director Fred T. Plog, III-archaeologist, anthropologist, author Gerald W. Thomas - NMSU President Emeritus, 1970–1984 Edward O. Thorp - mathematician best known for writing the book Beat the Dealer and co-inventing the first wearable computer; Associate Professor of Mathematics 1961–65 Clyde Tombaugh - astronomer best known for his discovery of Pluto; former professor of astronomy Alumni Science, medicine, and technology Arlan Andrews - mechanical engineer and science fiction author John A. D. Cooper - physician and educator Stuart Pimm - theoretical ecologist and conservation biologist. Alan Hale - astronomer famous for discovering the Hale-Bopp Comet Bill Inmon - computer scientist, recognized as the father of data warehouse Paul W. Klipsch - audio pioneer; founder of Klipsch and Associates; namesake of the Klipsch School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at NMSU Jaron Lanier - writer, computer scientist, composer, and virtual reality pioneer Kathy Lueders - engineer, NASA Associate Administrator of Human Exploration and Operations (HEO) Rose Marie Pangborn - scientist, pioneer in the sensory analysis of food Harold Reitsema - astronomer, part of the teams that discovered Larissa and Telesto Mark W. Spong - roboticist; Dean of Erik Jonsson School of Engineering & Computer Science at the University of Texas at Dallas Paul Carpenter Standley - botanist Sarah Stewart - research scientist, pioneer in the field of viral oncology, co-discovered the first polyomavirus Law, politics, military and government Norma Bixby - member of the Montana House of Representatives Donald Bratton - politician William Burt - Republican member of the New Mexico Senate Michael L. Connor - United States Deputy Secretary of the Interior David Coss - US politician and former mayor of Santa Fe, New Mexico Lee Cotter - Republican member of the New Mexico Senate Candy Ezzell - Republican member of the New Mexico House of Representatives Edgar Franklin Foreman, Jr. - motivational speaker in Dallas who served one term in the United States House of Representatives Gregory J. Fouratt - former United States Attorney for the District of New Mexico Chuck Franco - game warden, police officer, undersheriff, current First Gentleman of New Mexico Mary Helen Garcia - Democratic member of the New Mexico House of Representatives Mary Jane Garcia - former member of the New Mexico Senate