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New Mexico State University to Get Media Center

Posted on: Wednesday, 4 January 2006, 21:00 CST

By Dolores M. Bernal, Las Cruces Sun-News, N.M.

Jan. 4--Gov. Bill Richardson will be among a group of dignitaries and media industry professionals who will attend a kickoff ceremony Friday for New Mexico State University's new state-of-the-art media center.

Richardson awarded NMSU $2 million in the fall of 2004 for the construction of the Creative Media Institute for Film and Digital Arts.

The investment was an effort to promote film and digital arts in New Mexico, which state and university officials hope will attract some the movie industry's billions of dollars to the state.

The new media center will be located in Milton Hall, which also houses KRWG-TV and KRWG-FM. It will feature a screening room, a post-production lab, two audio production suites and an animation lab.

Creative Media Institute's Cissy Lujan-Pincomb said renovations will begin in late January.

"We should have an August completion date," she said.

Students pursuing careers in film, medicine, government, intelligence and other industries that require experience in digital media will benefit from having a modern facility, school officials said.

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Source: Las Cruces Sun-News

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