NM Tech Regents Leave School's Name Unchanged
By George Zamora
New Mexico Tech will continue to be officially known as the "New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology." View Entire Article »
NM Tech MST Program Expands Horizons to China
By Joleen Welborn, J.P. Moore
Water quality studies, schools, and food were on the agenda for a group of New Mexico educators, including five from Socorro schools, on a recent trip to China. View Entire Article »
An Open Letter to Friends of NMT
By Dr. Daniel H. L?pez
New Mexico Tech will continue to be officially known as the "New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology." View Entire Article »
Two Materials Engineering Students Receive Awards
By George Zamora
Nathan J. Berg, a senior majoring in materials engineering at New Mexico Tech, and Melissa Valerie Collins, a Tech graduate student pursuing a master's degree in materials engineering, recently were awarded the New Mexico Section of the American Ceramic Society's (ACerS) top undergraduate and graduate student awards. View Entire Article »
NMT Student Garners National Video Award
By George Zamora
Scene One, Take One: New Mexico Tech student Scott "Hollywood" Miller receives his mail and opens a letter which notifies him that he has won a national CINE award. View Entire Article »
Summer Internships Provide Teachers with Research Experiences
By George Zamora
In an effort to enhance its curriculum offerings to state educators, New Mexico Tech is initiating a Math and Science Educator Research Program which will allow New Mexico teachers to gain hands-on research experience during the summer at several of the university's various research centers. View Entire Article »
New Vice President for Academic Affairs
By George Zamora
Peter F. Gerity recently was named vice president for academic affairs at New Mexico Tech, administrators at the state-funded research university announced today. View Entire Article »
NM Tech CS Team Wins Programming Honors
By George Zamora
A team comprised of three New Mexico Tech seniors majoring in computer science correctly solved six out of seven problems with computer programs written on the spot, taking top honors at the recently held Sixteenth Annual Fort Lewis College Computer Programming Contest in Durango, Colo. View Entire Article »
Jaramillo-Flemming Appointed
By NMT
Melissa Jaramillo-Fleming, New Mexico Tech's director of Student Services, recently was appointed by Governor Gary Johnson as a new board member of the National Hispanic Center, which opened last month in Albuquerque. View Entire Article »
NMT to Manage Law Enforcement Training Center
By NMT
The U.S. Department of State has awarded a contract to the New Mexico Tech to operate the International Law Enforcement Academy (ILEA) at the deBremond National Guard facility at the Roswell Industrial Air Center. View Entire Article »
Wingenter Named Chemistry Professor
By George Zamora
Oliver W. Wingenter recently was appointed to the full-time, tenure-track position of assistant professor of chemistry at New Mexico Tech. He also will serve concurrently as a research scientist at the state-funded research university's Geophysical Research Center. View Entire Article »
NMT Reclassified in Carnegie Foundation System
By George Zamora
New Mexico Tech has been reclassified as a "Doctoral/ Research University--Intensive" under a newly revised classification system adopted by The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. View Entire Article »
Advising Center Founded
By George Zamora
Administrators at New Mexico Tech have reallocated some of the university's current resources -- both human and fiscal -- in order to establish an on-campus Advising Resource Center for its students. View Entire Article »
Children's Center Teacher Gains Credentials
By George Zamora
Darlene Sanchez, an early childhood teacher at New Mexico Tech Children's Center, has been awarded the Child Development Associate (CDA) Credential in recognition of her outstanding work with young children. View Entire Article »
Mary Harper Receives Albuquerque Journal Scholarship
By George Zamora
Mary R. Harper, a graduate of Cibola High School who is now a senior majoring in materials engineering at New Mexico Tech, recently was awarded the prestigious Albuquerque Journal Scholarship. View Entire Article »
Science Fair Winners Announced
By NMT
Top winners were announced in the 48th annual New Mexico Science and Engineering Fair. View Entire Article »
NMT Represented at STC Conference
By NMT
New Mexico Tech was well represented at the Society for Technical Communication's (STC) recent Region 5 annual conference. View Entire Article »
President's Golf Tourney Benefits NM Tech Students
By George Zamora
Six years after its inception and with over $100,000 raised for university students from its proceeds, an annual fundraising golf tournament held at New Mexico Tech is getting bigger and better every year. View Entire Article »
NMT Awarded $3.5 M for Domestic Counter-Terrorism Program
By NMT
U.S. Senator Pete Domenici today heralded the award of $3.5 million he secured for the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology (New Mexico Tech) domestic counter-terrorism training program in Socorro. View Entire Article »
Artwork Chosen for Macey Lawn
By George Zamora
Masayuki Nagase's design concept, "Passage of the Earth and Sky," has been selected as the top candidate from a field of 45 art proposals which were vying for a state grant to create an original, interactive public artwork on the New Mexico Tech campus. View Entire Article »
Louis Latasa Named Director of Campus Police
By George Zamora
With his extensive background in university law enforcement at New Mexico Tech, Magdalena native Louis "Louie" Latasa seemed the natural choice to be put in charge of the university's campus police department, once longtime director Tom Zimmerman retired from the post last year. View Entire Article »
NMT Ranked 20th by Kiplinger's
By George Zamora
New Mexico Tech is listed as the 20th best buy among the nation's public colleges and universities in an article featured in the current issue of Kiplinger's magazine. View Entire Article »
NMT Ranked Highly by U.S. News
By George Zamora
New Mexico Tech has once again been listed as one of the best engineering schools in the nation in the latest annual rankings published today by U. S. News & World Report>/i>. View Entire Article »
NM Tech Robotics Teams Put Out Fires with the Best of Them
By George Zamora
Five teams composed of New Mexico Tech electrical engineering students and one recent Tech graduate proved once again this past weekend that Tech-designed robots can "put out fires" alongside the best of them. View Entire Article »
Mike Davis Named Engineering Student of Year
By George Zamora
Michael Davis, a senior majoring in electrical engineering at New Mexico Tech, recently was named the university's "Engineering Student of the Year." h View Entire Article »
NM Tech Alum Enters Prestigious Army Aquisitions Program
By George Zamora
Dr. Daniel D. Belk, a 1973 graduate of New Mexico Tech who has served as a operations research analyst with the U.S. Army since 1982, recently was selected to be a member of the Army's Year 2001 Competitive Development Group (CDG), an elite team of 26 civilian and six military acquisition professionals. View Entire Article »
NM Tech Grad Student Develops Arsenic Test Kit
By George Zamora
In the course of field work conducted for his geochemistry dissertation, New Mexico Tech doctoral candidate Greg Miller has developed a low-cost, easy-to-use analytical kit which may soon provide researchers and technicians with a better method of differentiating the various species of arsenic detected in groundwater and other sources of drinking water. View Entire Article »
Ken Eack Joins Physics Faculty
By George Zamora
New Mexico Tech alumnus Kenneth Bryan Eack recently returned to his alma mater to take on a dual role as the newest faculty member in the research university's physics department, as well as the newest research physicist at Tech's renowned Langmuir Laboratory for Atmospheric Research. View Entire Article »
NM Tech Ranks Highly in Chemical Engineering Research Spending
By George Zamora
New Mexico Tech recently was ranked among the top 25 universities in the nation in terms of how much the school spends on chemical engineering research and development. View Entire Article »
NM Tech Math Team Performs Well in National Contest
By George Zamora
Recently posted results reveal that a team of New Mexico Tech students bested more than 300 other three-member teams during the 60th Annual William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition, which was held this past December. View Entire Article »
Rebecca Brown Receives AAUW Scholarship
By George Zamora
Rebecca Lynn Brown, a native of Grants who is now a senior at New Mexico Tech, recently was selected as the recipient of this year's Socorro Chapter of the Association of American University Women (AAUW) Scholarship. View Entire Article »
Bureau Receives NASA Group Achievement Award
By George Zamora
A field study of the Taos area conducted by geoscientists from the New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources (NMBMMR) and New Mexico Tech, and done in conjunction with NASA's Astronaut Training Program, has resulted in the research group being named a recipient of the space agency's Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center Group Achievement Award. View Entire Article »
PRRC Director Robert Lee Receives Award
By George Zamora
Robert L. Lee, the director of New Mexico Tech's Petroleum Research and Recovery Center (PRRC), recently was named this year's recipient of the New Mexico Oil & Gas Association's (NMOGA) Pete Porter Award. View Entire Article »
New Apartments Offer Convenience and Amenities
By George Zamora
A nearly completed student apartment complex at New Mexico Tech will soon offer returning Tech students the independence of living in an apartment setting, along with the convenience of living on campus, topped off with some of the best views in town. View Entire Article »
Siddharth Pandey Named Asst. Prof. of Chemistry
By George Zamora
Siddharth Pandey recently was appointed to the full-time, tenure-track position of assistant professor of chemistry at New Mexico Tech. View Entire Article »
Tech Students Place First at Environmental Health Conference
By NMT
New Mexico Tech congratulates Peter Guerra, Malinda Milligan, and Akemi Ito for winning FIRST PLACE in the student poster competition at the New Mexico Environmental Health Conference. View Entire Article »
L?pez Receives NM Public Service Award
By NMT
Daniel H. L?pez, president of New Mexico Tech, has been named one of this year's 12 recipients of the notable 31st Annual New Mexico Distinguished Public Service Awards. View Entire Article »
Quality of NM Tech Undergrads Ranks Highly
By George Zamora
A recent report released by The Center at the University of Florida, titled "The Top American Research Universities," lists New Mexico Tech as tied for 38th among the top 100 public institutions in terms of median SAT scores posted by their entering undergraduate students. View Entire Article »
Geophysicist Tobin on Research Cruise
By George Zamora
New Mexico Tech research geophysicist Harold Tobin had to book his "research cruise" seven years in advance, but the unparalleled opportunity to participate in an intensive, eight-week-long, interdisciplinary study conducted aboard a specially fitted ship floating above one of Earth's most seismically active areas was well worth the long wait. View Entire Article »
Blunt Lightning Rods Are Better
By George Zamora
Among Benjamin Franklin's many useful contributions to science was his invention of the sharp-tipped lightning rod--a simple device which was originally intended to discharge thunderclouds and, thus, actually prevent lightning. View Entire Article »
Sarkodie-Gyan Appointed Asst. Prof. of Mechanical Engineering
By George Zamora
Thompson Sarkodie-Gyan recently was appointed to the full-time, tenure-track position of associate professor of mechanical engineering at New Mexico Tech, becoming the first person to fill a faculty position that is directly linked to the university's proposed mechanical engineering degree program. View Entire Article »
Lisa Young Named Asst. Prof. of Physics
By George Zamora
Lisa M. Young first came to Socorro at the start of the Summer of 1990 as a Harvard University undergraduate and spent the ensuing summer months working on her senior thesis at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory's (NRAO) Very Large Array (VLA) radiotelescope. View Entire Article »
NM Tech Researcher Sheds Light on "Sprites"
By George Zamora
Most everyone is familiar with the dazzling displays of lightning that accompany thunderstorms, but only a handful of atmospheric researchers (and high-altitude pilots) have ever caught a passing glimpse of the electrifying light shows that sometimes simultaneously occur miles above large thunderstorm systems. View Entire Article »
NM Tech Graduate Programs Rank Highly
By George Zamora
Make it five years in a row now: 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 »
Dr. Allan Gutjahr
By NMT
We are very sorry to report the passing of Dr. Allan Gutjahr, professor emeritus of mathematics, on Jan. 3, 2000, from lymphoma. View Entire Article »
Summer Courses in China for NM Teachers
By George Zamora
As part of its curriculum this coming summer, New Mexico Tech's Master of Science Teaching (MST) program will offer 12 selected state educators -- culled primarily from rural, ethnically diverse areas of New Mexico -- the opportunity to take summer field courses in the People's Republic of China. View Entire Article »
NMT Student Chapter of ACerS Wins National Award
By George Zamora
New Mexico Tech's student chapter of the American Ceramic Society (ACerS) recently was awarded the national organization's Student Congress "Best Community Outreach Program" award. View Entire Article »
Yardley Fellowship Established for Grad Students
By George Zamora
The Don Yardley Fellowship Fund recently was established at New Mexico Tech to provide financial support for graduate students at the university who decide to pursue professional interests in ore deposits and mineral exploration. View Entire Article »
Mary Dezember Named Asst. Prof. of English
By George Zamora
Mary Dezember was appointed prior to the start of the fall semester to the full-time, tenure-track position of assistant professor of English at New Mexico Tech. View Entire Article »
Dr. Susan Field Named Asst. Prof. of English
By George Zamora
Susan L. Field, who has been a visiting professor for the past two years at New Mexico Tech, recently was appointed to the full-time, tenure-track position of assistant professor of English at the state-funded research university. View Entire Article »
Tech Comes in First at Mini Baja West Competition
By Kathy Hedges
A team of New Mexico Tech mechanical engineering students took first place in the sales competition at Mini Baja West, an annual competition sponsored by the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE). View Entire Article »
Summer 2001 Internships for Teachers
By NMT
For the second year in a row, New Mexico Tech will enhance its curriculum offerings to state educators this coming summer with the Math and Science Educator Research Program. View Entire Article »
Management Students Get United Airlines Internship Opportunity
By Valerie Kimble
Two students in New Mexico Tech's Management Department View Entire Article »
Silva Appointed Director of EEG
By George Zamora
Matthew K. Silva recently was appointed director of New Mexico Tech's Environmental Evaluation Group (EEG), the state-funded research university announced today. View Entire Article »
Student Aaron Stump Publishes in Nature
By George Zamora
Aaron David Stump, a senior majoring in materials engineering at New Mexico Tech, was the co-author of a scientific paper which was recently published in the current issue of Nature, the weekly British science journal. View Entire Article »
CS Teams Sweep Programming Contest
By George Zamora
Four undergraduate teams comprised of New Mexico Tech computer science majors recently traveled to Las Cruces to compete in a regional computer programming contest and swept the field, returning to Socorro with the event's top four awards. View Entire Article »
NM Tech Student Alyssa Olson Honored Twice
By George Zamora
Many New Mexico Tech students distinguish themselves while attending the university or do so later in their professional careers, but Tech graduate student Alyssa J. Olson is one of the few who can say she's done both at the same time. View Entire Article »
NM Tech Architect Dave Wilson, 1951-2000
By Valerie Kimble
When Dave Wilson applied for the job of staff architect at New Mexico Tech, he told his interviewer that he wanted more than anything to be a good architect. View Entire Article »
Chile Repellent Effective on Formosan Termites
By NMT
Dr. Daniel H.L?pez, President of New Mexico Tech, announced today that research recently concluded at Texas A&M University had determined that Formosan termites (Coptotermes) are effectively repelled by materials created by the process discovered and patented by scientists at New Mexico Tech which molecularly bonds capsaicin, the natural "heat" of chile peppers into paints, stains, plastics and other rubberized substances. View Entire Article »
Dr. John DeWitt McKee, 1919-2000
By Valerie Kimble
Think of John DeWitt McKee as a missionary once sent to preach the gospel of salvation to the savages, only in this case the gospel was the beauty of the written word, and the savages were the rank and file students at New Mexico Tech. View Entire Article »
New Mexico Tech Ponders Name Change
By George Zamora
"What's in a name?" For people who are already familiar with it, the name "New Mexico Tech" invokes certain images and notions of what the state-supported research university is really like. View Entire Article »
Chile Repellent To Help Protect Endangered Species
By NMT
Dr. Daniel H. L?pez, President of New Mexico Tech, announced today that a consortium of associated scientists has successfully tested Tech's patented non-toxic, all-natural, chile pepper-based repellent to help control the destructive impact of the rosy wolfsnail (Euglandia rosea). View Entire Article »
NMT Wins Contract To Operate Training Facility
By NMT
Congressman Joe Skeen and U.S. Senator Pete Domenici today announced that the Department of State has awarded a contract to New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology to establish and operate a new federal international law enforcement training facility in Roswell. View Entire Article »
