Lightning Mapping Array Destroyed in Oklahoma Fire
By George Zamora

Officials at the National Severe Storms Laboratory (NSSL) in Norman, Okla. say last week's fire which roared through the agency's "Balloon Barn" equipment storage facility has created a major setback to its research efforts after destroying an estimated $1.8 million worth of high-tech research equipment. View Entire Article »

Macey Scholars: Caruthers and Edwards
By George Zamora

Albuquerque area natives James W. Caruthers and Lisa Marie Edwards, both seniors at New Mexico Tech, recently were named Macey Scholars at the university. View Entire Article »

NM Tech Students to Ride on NASA Plane
By George Zamora

Ten New Mexico Tech students will travel next month to NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston to take their team-developed experiment to never-before-achieved heights aboard the space agency's famed KC-135A aircraft?a military version of a Boeing 707 which has been affectionately dubbed by its various passengers over the years as the "Vomit Comet." View Entire Article »

Bush Signs Bill Funding NM Tech Research
By NMT

U.S. Senator Pete Domenici said a bill signed today by President Bush includes a directive he authored to force the Pentagon to release funding important to Defense Department blast research being conducted at the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology in Socorro. View Entire Article »

NMBGR Publishes Field Conference Book
By George Zamora

The New Mexico Bureau of Geology and Mineral Resources (NMBGMR), a service and research division of New Mexico Tech, has published a field guide associated with a recently held "Decision-Makers Field Conference," which this year strategically focused on water issues in New Mexico. View Entire Article »

NM Geology Studies Arsenic in Groundwater
By George Zamora

One of the current issues of New Mexico Geology focuses on an investigation of the levels and distribution of arsenic in ground water in the Socorro Basin. View Entire Article »

Cal Receives Award from Alma Mater
By George Zamora

Mark P. Cal, an assistant professor of environmental engineering at New Mexico Tech, recently was honored by his alma mater after being named by the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) as this year's recipient of its "Young Civil Engineer Achievement Award." View Entire Article »

Inal Named ASM Fellow
By George Zamora

Osman T. Inal, a professor of materials and metallurgical engineering at New Mexico Tech, recently was informed by ASM International, the Materials Information Society, that he had been chosen as a 2001 Fellow Member of the technical and professional organization. View Entire Article »