Mark Alvarez Named Director of IRIS/PASSCAL Center
By George Zamora
Mark Germain Alvarez recently was named director of the newest research center on the New Mexico Tech campus--the IRIS/PASSCAL seismological instrumentation center. View Entire Article »
NMT Named in Princeton Review's "Best 311 Colleges"
By George Zamora
New Mexico Tech continues to rake in the accolades and enhance its national repute after having recently been listed among the best schools in the nation in the 1999 edition of The Princeton Review Guide to the Best 311 Colleges. The Princeton Review's annual survey, based on provided "inside information" and interviews with students who actually attend the various universities, rated New Mexico Tech highly in such areas as campus life, student admissions, financial aid options, and, particularly, academics. View Entire Article »
CS Prof. Has Book Published
By Valerie Kimble
Computers are everywhere--and so are the software defects, or "bugs," that can wreak disaster, everything from spoiling spreadsheet programs to causing plane crashes. View Entire Article »
Instrument "Lending Library" Helps Scientists See What's Shaking
By Greg Lester
An innovative new instrument center to support scientists in their efforts to study earthquakes and other seismic data will be dedicated today at New Mexico Tech in Socorro, New Mexico. View Entire Article »
Bruce Beaudoin Named Senior Scientist at IRIS/PASSCAL
By George Zamora
Bruce C. Beaudoin recently was named senior scientist and associate director of the newest research center on the New Mexico Tech campus--the IRIS/PASSCAL seismological instrumentation center. View Entire Article »
Snezna Rogelj Named Biology Professor
By George Zamora
Snezna Rogelj recently was named to the full-time, tenure-track position of assistant professor of biology with New Mexico Tech's biology department. View Entire Article »
NMT Selected for Major Seismic Research Lab
By George Zamora
The New Mexico Tech campus in Socorro has been selected as the new location for a national seismological instrument center. View Entire Article »
Three Hydrology Grad Students Receive Top Awards
By George Zamora
A trio of doctoral candidates in New Mexico Tech's nationally renowned graduate program in hydrology recently were awarded prestigious research grants and fellowships, further adding to the program's esteemed repute among the nation's top research universities. View Entire Article »
NM Tech Students "Crack the Code"
By George Zamora
A group of computer users on the New Mexico Tech campus has pooled its collective computing power to take on the formidable task of deciphering encrypted messages encoded with long strings of binary numbers--blocks of ones and zeros--which can sometime involve trying 72 quadrillion or more possible combinations to unlock a specific security code. View Entire Article »
$2.5 Million Approved for NMT's First Responder Program
By Sarah Echols
Senator Pete Domenici today reported that the Senate Appropriations Committee approved $22 million for a program involving the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology at Socorro to teach law enforcement how to respond to potential terrorist attacks. View Entire Article »
NMT Receives $2M for Counter-Terrorism
By Sarah Echols
Senator Pete Domenici today confirmed that the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology has received $2 million to train state and local emergency personnel who would be the first line of defense against domestic terrorist attacks. View Entire Article »
Analytical Chemist Honored
By George Zamora
Nelia W. Dunbar, an analytical geochemist at the New Mexico Bureau of Mines & Mineral Resources, recently was honored by the Alumnae Association of Mount Holyoke College by being named this year's recipient of the association's prestigious Mary Lyon Award. View Entire Article »
$2.6 Million Grant to PRRC for "Fuzzy Expert" System
By George Zamora
New Mexico Tech's Petroleum Recovery Research Center(PRRC) has been awarded more than $2.6 million by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to develop a Fuzzy Expert Exploration Tool, or FEE Tool. View Entire Article »
NM Tech Teams Fare Well in Robot Competition
By George Zamora
Four teams of New Mexico Tech electrical engineering students have proven that when it comes to international robotics competitions, Tech-designed robots can "fight fires" alongside the best of them. View Entire Article »
NMT Patents Environmentally Safe Pest Repellent
By George Zamora
Dr. Daniel H. L?pez, president of New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, announced today that the New Mexico Tech Research Foundation recently received a patent for the latest scientific development at the university--an environmentally sensitive animal and insect repellant derived from a plant product which is abundantly grown in New Mexico. View Entire Article »
NM Tech Students Take Top Programming Honors
By George Zamora
Three New Mexico Tech students majoring in computer science took top honors at the recent 14th Annual Fort Lewis College Computer Programming Contest in Durango, Colo. View Entire Article »
Tech Ranks among Nation's Best
By George Zamora
New Mexico Tech's graduate program in hydrology has once again been rated among the best in the nation in the recently published U. S. News & World Reports annual rankings of graduate schools. View Entire Article »
Education Consultant Named New NM Tech Regent
By George Zamora
Robert E. Taylor, an education consultant based in Silver City, N. M., recently was appointed by Governor Gary Johnson as the newest voting member of the New Mexico Tech Board of Regents. His term of appointment will be through Jan. 1, 2003 on the state-supported research university's governing board. View Entire Article »
New Staff: Mary Templeton, IRIS/PASSCAL
By George Zamora
Mary Templeton recently was appointed as a staff scientist at the newest research center on the New Mexico Tech campus--the IRIS/PASSCAL seismological instrumentation center. View Entire Article »
Minor Earthquake Activity in Northern Socorro County
By George Zamora
A series of minor earthquakes measuring between the magnitudes of 2.1 and less than 1 occurred Sunday night, March 22, through Monday, March 23, near the northern Socorro County communities of San Acacia and Alamillo, located about 11 miles north of Socorro. View Entire Article »
