The following non-NMSU employees have been approved by the Vice President for Research to serve as Principal Investigators for sponsored research at NMSU:
| Kurt Anderson |
| Glenn Bedell |
| Kenneth Boykin |
| James Cain |
| Colleen Caldwell |
| Scott Carleton |
| Jeanine Cook |
| Robert Czerniak |
| David Glenar |
| John Hammond |
| Kris Havstad |
| Jeffrey Herrick |
| Stephen Hottman |
| Peter Lammers |
| Leik Myrabo |
| James Ni |
| Debra Peters |
| Albert Rango Jill Schroeder |
| Silvia Torezani |
| Raul Valdez |
| William Webber |
| Andrew Wiget |
| Luoyu Roy Xu |
| Djuro Zrilic Ras Smith |