Rogelj Receives DOE Award
By George Zamora
New Mexico Tech biology professor Snezna Rogelj recently added to the state-supported research university's national repute by being honored with the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Defense Programs Early Career Scientist and Engineer Award. View Entire Article »
NMT Part of New Water Resources Center
By NMT
New Mexico Tech is one of several universities and institutions that are part of a new Science and Technology Center (STC) that will develop ways to efficiently manage water resources in semi-arid regions. The University of Arizona in Tucson is the lead institution in the $16 million, multi-university center. View Entire Article »
NMT Provides Electronic Classrooms Via Cable
By George Zamora
Traditional university classroom settings at New Mexico Tech are not in any immediate danger of being replaced, but some currently are being supplemented by modern communications technology and other electronic media. This spring semester, for instance, New Mexico Tech is offering both a Spanish class and a calculus class via one of the cable television channels on Socorro Electric Cooperative's cable television system. View Entire Article »
Official Statement on Airing of Columbine Videotape
By NMT
New Mexico Tech's first concern is for the victims of the Columbine tragedy and their families, and the prevention of future tragedies of this kind. View Entire Article »
Materials Researchers Make Strong Showing at Symposium
By Kathleen Hedges
New Mexico Tech's Materials Engineering Department made a strong showing at the recent Rio Grande Regional Symposium on Advanced Materials. View Entire Article »
Fulbright-Hays Program Provides Teachers Summer Courses in Ghana
By George Zamora
Because of a special monetary award acquired from the Fulbright-Hays Group Projects Abroad Program, teachers enrolled in two of the 11 classes offered this summer through the MST program will be conducting environmental science field and lab work in Ghana. View Entire Article »
NMT Receives Counter-Terrorism Funds
By NMT
U.S. Senators Pete Domenici and Jeff Bingaman, and U. S. Congressman Joe Skeen have announced that the Clinton administration has relented from its plan to withhold $3 million which Congress provided to New Mexico Tech as part of a national program to prepare American cities for possible terrorist attacks. View Entire Article »
Tom Zimmerman Retires from Campus Police
By Kathleen Hedges
Tom Zimmerman, longtime director of Campus Police at New Mexico Tech, will be handing over the reins of office come April 30. View Entire Article »
NMT's Chile Repellent Effective Against Termites
By NMT
Dr. Daniel H. L?pez, president of New Mexico Tech, today announced that termites are effectively repelled by materials created with the process discovered and patented by scientists at New Mexico Tech, which molecularly bonds the natural "heat" (capsaicin) of chile peppers into paints, stains, plastics, and other rubberized materials. View Entire Article »
Jack Cobb, Longtime Langmuir Manager, Passes Away
By George Zamora
When Jack William Cobb (Sept. 2, 1916 - July 12, 1999) served as field supervisor and manager of the Langmuir Laboratory for Atmospheric Research, all of the squirrels which lived around the research facility atop the Magdalena Mountains had names. View Entire Article »
NMT's Hydrology and Petroleum Programs Rank Highly
By George Zamora
For the fourth year in a row, New Mexico Tech's graduate program in hydrology has once again been rated among the best in the nation in the latest U.S. News & World Report's annual rankings of graduate schools. View Entire Article »
Domenici: NM Tech Counter-Terrorism Funding Sent to White House
By NMT
U.S. Senator Pete Domenici today confirmed that the Congress has completed and sent to the White House a funding bill that provides $3.5 million in FY 2000 for counter-terrorism training ongoing at the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology in Socorro. View Entire Article »
NM Tech Goal Program Grows as Enrollment Increases
By George Zamora
With 1,511 students enrolled at New Mexico Tech this fall semester, student enrollment is currently higher at the state-supported research university than it has been since 1994, says Carl J. Popp, Tech's vice president for academic affairs. View Entire Article »
Campus Construction Continues
By George Zamora
Thanks to last year's passage of the state General Obligation (GO) Bond, a major construction project at New Mexico Tech will be completed on time later this summer, while another is scheduled to soon get underway. View Entire Article »
New Mexico Tech Among Nation's Best
By George Zamora
New Mexico Tech has once again been included on the list of the best engineering schools in the nation in recent rankings compiled by U.S. News & World Report. View Entire Article »
NM Tech Student Co-Authors Paper in Nature
By George Zamora
Aaron D. Stump, a senior majoring in materials engineering at New Mexico Tech, was a co-author of a scientific paper which was recently published in the weekly science magazine >i>Nature. View Entire Article »
Federal Funding Approved for Magdalena Ridge Observatory
By George Zamora
A state-of-the-art optical observatory designed to produce high-resolution images of distant astronomical objects is scheduled for construction atop the Magdalena Mountains in the center of the state of New Mexico. View Entire Article »
Bureau of Mines Publications
By George Zamora
Geologic and economic studies of the oil and gas resources underlying the area which surrounds the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) site, nearly 30 miles east of Carlsbad, are the focus of a recent report published by the New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources (NMBM&MR). View Entire Article »
Chemistry Professor Wins Dreyfus Foundation Grant
By George Zamora
New Mexico Tech chemistry professor Tanja Pietra? has been named one of this year's recipients of a monetary award from the Camille and Henry Dreyfus Special Grant Program in the Chemical Sciences. View Entire Article »
Zeman Joins History Faculty
By George Zamora
New Mexico Tech's previous history professors have provided Scott Zeman with a model of what he wants to do in his new position as associate professor of history at the state-supported research university. View Entire Article »
NMT Student Mary Felker Awarded American Ceramic Society Scholarship
By George Zamora
Mary Robin Felker, a native of Rio Rancho who is now a sophomore majoring in materials engineering at New Mexico Tech, recently was awarded the New Mexico Section of the American Ceramic Society's first-ever "Ceramic Achievement Scholarship." View Entire Article »
Jeon Named to Chemical Engineering Faculty
By George Zamora
Hyun Sik Jeon recently was appointed to the full-time, tenure-track position of assistant professor of chemical engineering at New Mexico Tech. View Entire Article »
EE Majors Awarded ITEA Scholarships
By George Zamora
Michael Davis and Michael Schumacher, both seniors majoring in electrical engineering (EE) at New Mexico Tech, recently were named the recipients of two $1,500 scholarships awarded this year by the White Sands Missile Range (WSMR) chapter of the International Test and Evaluation Association (ITEA). View Entire Article »
NM Tech Teams "Clean Up" in Environmental Design Contest
By George Zamora
Three teams comprised of New Mexico Tech environmental engineering students each won second place honors in three separate environmental cleanup tasks at the Ninth Annual Waste-Management Education and Research Consortium (WERC) International Environmental Design Contest, which recently was held at New Mexico State University. View Entire Article »
Wen-Ben Jone Returns to NM Tech CS Faculty
By George Zamora
It's been more than a decade since Wen-Ben Jone first started teaching computer science at New Mexico Tech; yet, he recently became the newest member of Tech's computer science faculty. View Entire Article »
NM Tech Students Place 10th in Robotics Contest
By George Zamora
Four teams of New Mexico Tech electrical engineering students recently competed in an international robotics contest, proving once again that Tech-designed robots can "put out fires" alongside the best of them. View Entire Article »
NM Tech Alum Engler Returns as Professor
By George Zamora
New Mexico Tech alumnus Thomas W. Engler recently returned to his alma mater to become the newest faculty member in the university's petroleum and chemical engineering department. View Entire Article »
Scholle Takes Helm at Bureau
By George Zamora
Peter A. Scholle, who recently was appointed director of the New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources (NMBM&MR) and state geologist, made the move from Dallas to Socorro earlier this summer after accepting his new position, and, so far, he says, he hasn't missed Dallas "five cents worth." View Entire Article »
NM Tech Grads Achieve High Rate of Ph.D.s
By Kathleen Hedges
New Mexico Tech graduates continue to rank high in their rate of achieving Ph.D. degrees. View Entire Article »
Jean Wardell Awarded DOE Fellowship
By George Zamora
New Mexico Tech geochemistry doctoral candidate L. Jean Wardell recently was awarded a prestigious fellowship from one of the major research offices of the U.S. Department of Energy, which will help support her ongoing research on how volcanic emissions affect global climate change. View Entire Article »
Int'l Border Patrol Training Begins at NMT
By George Zamora
The U.S. Department of State's Rural Border Patrol Operations Course has begun this month for a delegation of law enforcement officials from Egypt at training facilities located at New Mexico Tech. View Entire Article »
NM Tech Chemistry Prof. Wins U.S. Presidential Award
By George Zamora
Christopher Paul Palmer, an assistant professor of chemistry at New Mexico Tech, has been awarded the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, the nation's highest award honoring young researchers at the outset of their research careers. View Entire Article »
Student Co-Authors Paper in Nature
By NMT
New Mexico Tech student Aaron Stump, senior in materials engineering, was co-author on a paper published in the March 18, 1999 issue of Nature. View Entire Article »
Majumdar Joins Materials Engineering Faculty
By George Zamora
Bhaskar S. Majumdar recently was named to the full-time, tenure-track position of associate professor of materials engineering at New Mexico Tech. View Entire Article »
PRRC Receives Grant to Study Oil Chemistry
By George Zamora
New Mexico Tech's Petroleum Recovery Research Center (PRRC) has been chosen to spearhead a multi-disciplinary study on how the flow of oil through a reservoir is affected by the interactions between formation fluids and mineral surfaces. View Entire Article »
Ivan Avramidi Joins Math Faculty
By George Zamora
Ivan Avramidi recently was appointed to the full-time, tenure-track position of associate professor of mathematics at New Mexico Tech. View Entire Article »
Campbell Edits Book on Business Communication
By Valerie Kimble
Dr. Charles P. Campbell, professor of humanities at New Mexico Tech and chairman of its Technical Communication program, has co-edited and written a chapter for a new book that explores the role of culture in business communications. View Entire Article »
Chapin Retires as Bureau Director
By Kathleen Hedges
Dr. Charles Chapin, Director of the New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources (NMBM&MR) and New Mexico's State Geologist is retiring, although it's hard to tell that by looking at his office. View Entire Article »
Clyde Dubbs, Longtime NM Tech Math Professor, Retires
By George Zamora
Clyde M. Dubbs, a longtime mathematics professor at New Mexico Tech, recently retired from teaching at the state-supported research university. View Entire Article »
Gutjahr named Fellow of AGU
By Valerie Kimble
Dr. Allan L. Gutjahr, longtime professor of mathematics at New Mexico Tech, has been named a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union (AGU), an honor limited to no more than 0.1 percent of the membership eligible for nomination to fellowship in any given year. View Entire Article »
New Child Care Center Director
By Kathleen Hedges
Terri Hunter, New Mexico Tech's new Child Care Center director, bubbles over with laughter when she talks about her new job. View Entire Article »
Fred Kuellmer Reading Room To Be Dedicated
By Valerie Kimble
A quiet, and yet cheery, reading room upstairs in the New Mexico Tech Library will be dedicated on Saturday, Dec. 4, 1999, in the name of a man whose spirit still hovers over the campus. The dedication is set for 11 a.m., and the public is invited. View Entire Article »
NM Tech Students Awarded SPE Scholarships
By George Zamora
Three New Mexico Tech students have been named recipients of scholarships presented by the Roswell section of the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE). They were all chosen for their outstanding academic performance and participation in Tech's student chapter of SPE. View Entire Article »
Sunrayce 99: Or, Trouble-Shooting from D.C. to Orlando
By Valerie Kimble
New Mexico Tech's Sunrayce '99 team members didn't take the checkered flag at this summer's solar-energy, collegiate racing competition, but they still came home winners. View Entire Article »
New Mexico Tech to Raise Tuition
By Kimberly Eiland
New Mexico Tech is raising student tuition and fees at the state-supported research university by five percent. View Entire Article »
