AAUW Chooses Two Scholarship Winners
By George Zamora
Since 1966, the Socorro branch of the American Association of University Women (AAUW) has held annual local fundraisers, such as the popular Visitas de Navidad, in order to award a scholarship each year to a young woman deemed to be an "academically outstanding student at New Mexico Tech." View Entire Article »
Starke Awarded SPS Leadership Scholarship
By George Zamora
Virginia Alison Starke, a native of Los Alamos who is now a senior majoring in both physics and mathematics at New Mexico Tech, recently was awarded the 2001-2002 SPS Leadership Scholarship, a national scholarship award given by the Society of Physics Students (SPS) to outstanding physics students who exhibit a high level of activity in SPS programs. View Entire Article »
MST Student Develops Adobe-Learning Unit
By Kathy Hedges
A New Mexico teacher has developed a teaching unit on adobe that will be published and made available to teachers nationwide by Wards Scientific, a well-known educational publisher and supplier. Carla Ingram Ludwig, a Farmington teacher, completed work on a unit called " Adobe Rock'N Roll" while finishing her Master of Science Teaching (MST) degree at New Mexico Tech. View Entire Article »
Steve Ball Presents Winning Paper
By George Zamora
New Mexico Tech student Steven Ball recently was singled out by the White Sands Missile Range Chapter of the International Test and Evaluation Association (ITEA) as having written the best technical paper among several undergraduate entries in the organization's annual student paper competition. View Entire Article »
EE Students Win Robotics Contest in China
By Marty Jonas
New Mexico Tech electrical engineering students Jos? Guilberto and Steven Wasson returned from China on Aug. 5 with trophies in hand. View Entire Article »
Steve Ball Co-Authors Nature Article
By George Zamora
Steven C. Ball, a senior majoring in mechanical engineering at New Mexico Tech, is listed as one of the co-authors of an article published in today's issue of the scientific journal Nature, which describes a startling discovery made last summer by Ball and 13 other college students who were doing research on the Very Large Array (VLA) radiotelescope. View Entire Article »
NM Tech Robotics Teams Dominate International Contest
By George Zamora
Students on robotics teams from New Mexico Tech were called to the awards stand more times than anyone else during last month's Eighth Annual Fire-Fighting Home Robot Contest, an international robotics contest which is held each year at Trinity College in Hartford, Conn. View Entire Article »
NM Tech Team First at Environmental Contest
By George Zamora
A team comprised of four New Mexico Tech seniors designed, constructed, and presented an innovative recovery system which placed first in its category at the 11th Annual Waste-Management Education and Research Consortium (WERC) International Environmental Design Contest, which was held last month at New Mexico State University. View Entire Article »
NM Tech Fencers Place Well in Regional Tournaments
By George Zamora
The New Mexico Tech Fencing Club has made significant marks in recent regional fencing tournaments held in Santa Fe, with several members placing in top positions in the various events held during the past two competitions. View Entire Article »
NM Tech Team Fares Well in Chemical-Car Competition
By George Zamora
A team of New Mexico Tech chemical engineering students placed second in the poster contest and sixth in the car performance event at the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) Third Annual Chemical Car Competition, which was held last month in Reno, Nevada. View Entire Article »
NM Tech Golf Pro Qualifies for Taylor Cup Matches
By George Zamora
Russell Moore, head golf professional at the New Mexico Tech Golf Course, has qualified this year as one of the top ten professional golfers from the Sun Country Professional Golfers Association who will compete next week in the Taylor Cup Matches at the Walking Stick Golf Course in Pueblo, Colo. View Entire Article »
EEG Employee Named President of Health Physics Society
By George Zamora
George Anastas, health physicist with New Mexico Tech's Environmental Evaluation Group (EEG), was inducted earlier this year as the 46th president of the Health Physics Society, an international scientific professional organization whose mission is to promote the practice of radiation safety. View Entire Article »
Professor Bill Stone Receives Award
By George Zamora
William Dean Stone, associate professor of mathematics at New Mexico Tech, has been named the recipient of the Southwestern Section of the Mathematical Association of America's (MAA) annual distinguished teaching award. View Entire Article »
Bureau Program Receives Excellence Award
By George Zamora
"Rockin' Around New Mexico," a summer geology workshop developed for state teachers by the New Mexico Bureau of Geology and Mineral Resources (NMBGMR), recently was chosen to receive the Western States Seismic Policy Council's (WSSPC) 2001 Award in Excellence for Outreach to Schools. View Entire Article »
Aimone-Martin Appointed to Commission
By George Zamora
Catherine Aimone-Martin, a professor of mineral engineering at New Mexico Tech, recently was appointed to the New
Mexico Coal Surface Mining Commission, a nine-member board which meets to adopt, amend, and repeal state regulations concerning coal surface mining activities. View Entire Article »
Baolin Deng Awarded NSF Career Award
By George Zamora
Baolin Deng, assistant professor of environmental engineeringat New Mexico Tech, recently was named a recipient of one of the National Science Foundation's (NSF) renowned 2001 Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Awards. View Entire Article »
Former NM Tech Instructor on Top at Fencing Championship
By George Zamora
Brad Baker, a former adjunct physics faculty member at New Mexico Tech, swept three men's fencing events and took first place overall at the 2001 New Mexico Division Fencing Championships, held last week at the Pueblo Complex in Los Alamos. View Entire Article »
NM Tech CS Students Win Big at Programming Contest
By George Zamora
A team of New Mexico Tech computer science students once again took top honors at the recently held Seventeenth Annual Fort Lewis College Programming Contest in Durango, Colo. View Entire Article »
Doctoral Candidate Finishes Well in Boston Marathon
By George Zamora
New Mexico Tech doctoral candidate Vladimir Ispolatov finished yesterday's 105th Boston Marathon with a very respectable official time of 2 hours, 55 minutes, and 37 seconds. View Entire Article »
Cal Receives Achievement Award
By NMT
Dr. Mark Cal, assistant professor of environmental engineering, was honored on April 20, 2001 with the 2001 Young Civil Engineer Achievement Award presented by the Civil and Environmental Engineering Alumni Association at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). View Entire Article »
NM Tech Students Garner Top Prizes at Poster Competition
By George Zamora
New Mexico Tech materials engineering students garnered three of the top prizes at a research poster competition held recently in conjunction with the 13th Annual Rio Grande Regional Symposium on Advanced Materials in Albuquerque. View Entire Article »
Summer Rhodes Garners Scholarships
By George Zamora
Roswell native Summer Rhodes, who is now a junior majoring in materials engineering at New Mexico Tech, recently was awarded two prestigious scholarship awards from the American Ceramic Society (ACerS). View Entire Article »
Alumnus Writes Book on Engineering Ceramics
By George Zamora
New Mexico Tech alumnus Murat Bengisu is the author of a recently published book, Engineering Ceramics. View Entire Article »
NM Tech Students Do Well in CS Competition
By NMT
A team of New Mexico Tech students did very well at the 2001 New Mexico State University Invitational Programming Competition, held this past weekend on the NMSU campus in Las Cruces. View Entire Article »
HEADINGNM Tech Student Soars into Research Program
By George Zamora
Michael Ray Johnson, a senior majoring in computer science at New Mexico Tech, recently was named one of about 40 students nationwide who have been accepted as participants, or "prot?g?s," in the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research's (UCAR) Significant Opportunities in Atmospheric Science and Research (SOARS) Program. View Entire Article »
Children's Center Teacher Gains Credentials
By George Zamora
Francisca Aurelia Baeza, a teacher at the New Mexico Tech Children's Center, recently was awarded the Child Development Associate (CDA) Credential in recognition of her outstanding work with young children. View Entire Article »
NM Tech Professor Emeritus Schery Authors Book
By George Zamora
Stephen D. Schery, a professor emeritus of physics at New Mexico Tech, is the author of the latest volume in the Environmental Science and Technology Library series, published by Kluwer Academic Publishers. View Entire Article »
Rockin' Around N.M. Program Receives Excellence Award
By George Zamora
"Rockin' Around New Mexico," a summer geology workshop developed for state teachers by the New Mexico Bureau of Geology and Mineral Resources (NMBGMR), recently was chosen to receive the Western States Seismic Policy Council's (WSSPC) 2001 Award in Excellence for Outreach to Schools. View Entire Article »
NM Tech Geochem Professor Publishes Textbook
By George Zamora
Mantle plumes, mushroom-shaped regions of hot rock that rise up from deep below the Earth's crust, have taken a "back seat" to plate tectonics ever since both geologic processes were introduced to and accepted by the Earth science community in the late-1960s and early 1970s. View Entire Article »
Hydrology Prof. Garners Meinzer Award
By George Zamora
Fred M. Phillips, professor of hydrology at New Mexico Tech, was named this year's recipient of the O. E. Meinzer Award at the recently held Geological Society of America (GSA) annual convention in Boston, marking the fourth time a New Mexico Tech hydrology professor has received the prestigious prize. View Entire Article »
Pres. L?pez To Receive UNM Award
By George Zamora
New Mexico Tech President Daniel H. L?pez has been selected by the University of New Mexico Alumni Association as the 2002 recipient of its Bernard S. Rodey Award. View Entire Article »
Electrical Engineering Students, Faculty Fare Well at Robot Contest
By NMT
Kudos to Tech's Electrical Engineering Department in the 8th Annual Trinity College Fire-Fighting Home Robot Contest... 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 »
Coil Winders Scholarship
By NMT
Three New Mexico Tech students recently were presented with national scholarships awarded by the Electrical Manufacturing and Coil Winding Association (EMCWA). View Entire Article »
