Also in 1997, The Hispanic Physicist, the official newsletter of the NSHP, was first published. The US-Mexico Workshop on Teaching Introductory Physics, the first major project undertaken by the Society, was held the same year in Monterrey, Mexico. The project was a bilingual joint venture between the NSHP and the Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey (ITESM) to explore the goals of the introductory physics sequence and recent pedagogical developments to meet those goals.