Science Olympiad Gears Up
By Marisa Wolfe
The New Mexico Science Olmpiad is gearing up for another exciting series of competitions! Each year, over 1,000 New Mexico students participate in Science Olympiad events statewide. View Entire Article »
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 »
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 »
NMT Ranked by U. S. News
By George Zamora
New Mexico Tech has been included among the 57 universities that make up the third tier grouping in the "Best National Universities--Doctoral" category in the latest annual rankings published today by U.S. News & World Report. 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 »
Montoya Named New Student Regent
By George Zamora
Albuquerque native Anthony Lewis Montoya, Jr., a senior majoring in electrical engineering at New Mexico Tech, recently was appointed by Governor Johnson and confirmed by the state legislature as the newest member of the New Mexico Tech Board of Regents, the university's five-member governing board. View Entire Article »
NM Tech Researchers Test Novel Methods of Detecting Pathogens
By George Zamora
New Mexico Tech researchers currently are working on developing ultra-sensitive technologies for detecting certain bacteria in the environment before the pathogenic microorganisms become abundant enough to cause outbreaks of infectious diseases. View Entire Article »
First-Year Experience Off to a Good Start
By George Zamora
The newly established First-Year Experience at New Mexico Tech is off to a good start in its inaugural semester at the university, offering its various services, programming, and learning opportunities to all members of the freshman class. View Entire Article »
Popular Mineral Museum Featured in New Mexico Magazine
By George Zamora
The well-known and oft-visited Mineral Museum on the campus of New Mexico Tech is the subject of a featured article in the current October issue of New Mexico magazine. View Entire Article »
NM Tech's Team FRACTAL Rides NASA Plane
By George Zamora
Ten New Mexico Tech students traveled this summer to NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston and took 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 »
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 »
NM Tech Club Makes Holiday Merrier for Socorro Families
By George Zamora
In a tangible expression of holiday spirit, all the members of the New Mexico Tech Club decided at their last meeting to raise at least $125 to "sponsor" a Socorro family, providing the parents and children with presents and food items and ensuring the family's Christmas dinner would be a special one this year. View Entire Article »
Sign on the Dotted Line
By NMT
Several top administrators at New Mexico Tech and Sandia National Laboratories met at Sandia on December 13, 2001, to sign two important memoranda of understanding (MOU). View Entire Article »
NMT and UNM Collaborate on Emergency Medical Program
By George Zamora
Two nationally recognized educational training programs at New Mexico universities -- one in first-responder training, the other in emergency medicine -- have formed a partnership to provide emergency medical personnel with specialized training for situations involving explosives or possible exposure to chemical, biological, radiological, or other environmental agents. 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 »
Specializations in Explosives Engineering Offered
By George Zamora
New Mexico Tech has harbored a longstanding tradition of educating professional engineers for the mining industry since the university's inception 112 years ago. View Entire Article »
New Mexico Teachers Offered Summer Course in Brazil
By Marissa Wolfe
New Mexico Tech's Master of Science Teaching (MST) degree program recently received a grant from the U.S. Department of Education Fulbright-Hayes Program to take 12 New Mexico teachers on a study trip this coming summer to Brazil. View Entire Article »
NMT to Lead National Security Research on Information, Infrastructure Systems
By NMT
U.S. Senator Pete Domenici and Congressman Joe Skeen, both R-N.M., today announced that a New Mexico university will host a new cooperative center whose national security work will serve to help protect U.S. computer, telecommunications or power systems vulnerable to failure or cyber attack. 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 »
Mission Possible: New Mexico Tech
By Kathy Hedges
New Mexico Tech was the subject of a front-page feature article in the Albuquerque Journal on Sunday, Oct. 14, 2001. The state-supported research university was highlighted for the many research opportunities it provides for students. 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 »
Aerojet Supports EE Lab
By NMT
The Aerojet office in Socorro recently made an $11,670 contribution to New Mexico Tech to help complete the electrical engineering department's new Controls/Robotics Laboratory. 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 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 »
Domenici Restores $11.5 M for Training at NMT
By NMT
U.S. Senator Pete Domenici today reported success in reinstating $11.5 million in new funding to expand the First Responders training program carried out at the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology in Socorro. 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 »
Chile Repellent Licensed
By NMT
Dr. Daniel H. L?pez, president of New Mexico Tech, today announced that Global Source Advantage, Inc. (GSA) has licensed the patent owned by
the New Mexico Tech Research Foundation that creates environmentally sensitive animal and insect repellents using chile peppers. Terms of the agreement were not disclosed. View Entire Article »
Astro-Camera System Donated to New Mexico Tech
By George Zamora
A state-of-the-art astronomical instrument valued at slightly over $746,000 recently was donated to New Mexico Tech for educational and scientific studies conducted at the university's Langmuir Research Site, located atop the nearby Magdalena Mountains. View Entire Article »
DuPont Donates Patent To NM Tech Research Foundation
By George Zamora
The New Mexico Tech Research Foundation has received a substantial corporate donation in the form of intellectual property from DuPont Chemical Solutions Enterprise, a subsidiary of corporate giant E.I. du Pont de Nemours and Company (DuPont). View Entire Article »
NMT to Help Direct Supercomputing Center
By NMT
The Air Force Research Laboratory announced today that the University of Hawai'i (UH) has been awarded the contract to operate and manage the Maui Supercomputing Center, located at the Maui Research and Technology Park in Kihei. View Entire Article »
Norman Invents Low-Cost, Low-Tech Arsenic Filter
By George Zamora
David Norman, a professor of geochemistry at New Mexico Tech, recently was awarded a $25,000 grant from the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation to further develop his new "low-tech" method of removing arsenic from drinking water. 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 »
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 »
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 »
NM Tech Geoscientists Present Research at Int'l Conference
By George Zamora
Several geoscientists from New Mexico Tech will present results of their ongoing research at "Earth System Processes," an international and interdisciplinary conference being held June 24 - 28, in Edinburgh, Scotland. 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 »
"Earth Matters," New Publication from Bureau
By George Zamora
The New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources (NMBM&MR) recently published the first issue of New Mexico EARTH MATTERS, a semi-annual newsletter that is distributed free-of-charge to New Mexicans interested in the state's water, landscapes, and Earth resources. View Entire Article »
New Mexico Postcards from Bureau
By George Zamora
The New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources (NMBM&MR) recently published two new additions to its popular postcard series?one which features a multi-colored geologic map of New Mexico and another which provides a satellite view of the state. View Entire Article »
N.M. Teachers Accept "Supercomputing Challenge"
By George Zamora
Several high school and middle school teachers from around New Mexico have accepted the "supercomputing challenge" and are now busy developing their computational science skills at a two-week-long instructional workshop on supercomputing, currently being held at New Mexico Tech. View Entire Article »
IT Degree Program/ iCASA Research Organization
By George Zamora
A new interdisciplinary research organization at New Mexico Tech is creating an alliance among academia, government, and private businesses -- a collaborative partnership which promises to solve problems and develop new technologies in the burgeoning fields of critical systems management, information networks, and large-scale infrastructures. View Entire Article »
New Campus Lighting Good for Costs, Astronomy
By George Zamora
A campus-wide outdoor lighting improvement project at New Mexico Tech promises to deliver improved safety and security and lower electrical bills at the university, as well as darker night-time skies above it. View Entire Article »
NMT Awarded $750,000 for Improved Drilling
By NMT
U.S. Senator Pete Domenici today reported that the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology has been awarded a $750,000 grant by the Department of Energy to evaluate ways to boost the productivity of oil exploration and production operations on Alaska?s North Slope in a more environmentally sound manner. 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 »
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 »
Bentley Named Asst. Prof. of Theater Arts
By George Zamora
At the start of the current spring semester, Leslie Bentley was named an assistant professor of Theatre Arts at New Mexico Tech, becoming the newest faculty member in the university's Humanities Department. 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 »
Prof. Rick Aster in National Geographic
By NMT
In the December 2001 issue of National Geographic, Dr. Rick Aster of NMT's Earth and Environmental Science Department is quoted in the lead article on Antarctica. View Entire Article »
NM Tech Researcher Publishes in Nature
By George Zamora
An international research team, including a researcher from New Mexico Tech, has found evidence in deep-sea sediment cores taken from Antarctica's Ross Sea that the Earth's natural "wobble" may have directly influenced fluctuating global temperatures, as well as variations in ice volumes on the frozen continent, during a period between 34 and 15 million years ago. View Entire Article »
NM Tech Faculty Members on Slate for AGU Offices
By George Zamora
Two New Mexico Tech faculty members are on the slate of 64 candidates seeking offices on the governing body of the American Geophysical Union (AGU), an international scientific organization whose membership currently exceeds 35,000. 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 »
NM Tech Students Score Well at Pool Tournament
By George Zamora
Several New Mexico Tech students proved they know their way around a pool table by sweeping the consolation round at the Association of College Unions International (ACUI) Regional Pool Tournament, which was recently held at the U. S. Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colo. View Entire Article »
NM Tech Researchers Study Deep-subsurface Microbes
By George Zamora
New Mexico Tech graduate student Sean McCuddy recently returned from field research conducted deep beneath the surface of the Earth, having spent most of his summer in the labyrinthine tunnels of several of the world's deepest gold mines -- many of them situated more than two miles below the South African plains. View Entire Article »
N.M. Bureau of Geology Publishes Non-Technical Booklets
By George Zamora
The New Mexico Bureau of Geology and Mineral Resources (NMBGMR) recently published the first booklet in a new non-technical series of publications which are designed to provide New Mexicans with informative overviews of the state's water, landscapes, and Earth resources. View Entire Article »
N.M. Geology magazine Studies Espanola Basin
By George Zamora
The newest issue of New Mexico Geology focuses on a geologic study of the depositional environments which make up the alluvial slopes found in a section on the east side of the Espa?ola Basin, about 25 miles directly north of Santa Fe. View Entire Article »
Poster-Sized Satellite Map of New Mexico
By George Zamora
The New Mexico Bureau of Geology and Mineral Resources (NMBGMR) recently published a poster-size map of New Mexico which offers a satellite view of the entire state on a single, albeit large, sheet of paper. View Entire Article »
NMT Participates in "New Mexico First" Town Hall
By NMT
New Mexico Tech President Daniel H. L?pez recently served as chairman of the research committee of the Twenty-Fifth New Mexico First Town Hall. View Entire Article »
Science Fair is Coming!
By George Zamora
More than 500 middle school and high school students from throughout the state will exhibit their research projects at the 49th annual New Mexico Science and Engineering Fair on Saturday, April 7, on the New Mexico Tech campus. View Entire Article »
John Wilson Named Chair of New Consortium
By George Zamora
John L. Wilson II, professor of hydrology at New Mexico Tech and chairman of the university's Earth and Environmental Science Department, recently was elected chairman of the Board of Directors of the Consortium of Universities for the Advancement of Hydrologic Science, Inc. (CUAHSI). View Entire Article »
Geological Librarian Writes Text for Guide to Southwest
By George Zamora
Maureen Wilks, geologist and geological librarian at the New Mexico Bureau of Geology and Mineral Resources, is the co-author of a recently published pictorial guidebook, The Southwest Inside and Out: An Illustrated Guide to the Land and Its History. 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 »
Westpfahl and MRO Mentioned in New Book
By George Zamora
David J. Westpfahl, a professor of astrophysics at New Mexico Tech, and the university's soon-to-be constructed Magdalena Ridge Observatory (MRO), are prominently mentioned in one of the chapters included in the recently published book, Distant Wanderers: The Search for Planets Beyond the Solar System, written by science journalist Bruce Dorminey. View Entire Article »
Domenici Supports NM Tech Programs
By George Zamora
U.S. Senator Pete Domenici, a Senate Appropriations Committee member, today voted with the Senate to send President Bush an appropriations bill that funds several counter-terrorism and international law enforcement programs in New Mexico. 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 »
Renowned Poet to Read at NMT
By the Humanities Dept.
New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology celebrates National Poetry Month with an evening with renowned poet David St. John on Wednesday, April 25 at 7 p.m. in the Tech Library, Room 212. 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 »
Wangler Named "Engineering Student of the Year"
By George Zamora
Timothy Wangler, a native of Clovis who is now a graduating senior majoring in chemical engineering at New Mexico Tech, recently was named the research university's "Engineering Student of the Year," an annual award presented by the New Mexico Society of Professional Engineers (NMSPE). 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 »
Funding Increased for First Responders Training
By NMT
U.S. Senator Pete Domenici today reported success in getting significant new funding to support domestic preparedness training funds for the First Responders training program carried out at the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology in Socorro. View Entire Article »
NM Tech Students Compete in SAE Mini Baja
By George Zamora
A team of New Mexico Tech engineering students competed last month against more than 100 other engineering design teams from universities across the United States, Mexico, and Canada at the 2001 Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) Mini Baja West, which was held this year at Kansas State University in Manhattan, Kansas. View Entire Article »
NM Tech Student Dies in Car Accident
By George Zamora
New Mexico Tech sophomore John Keith Renouard died Friday, November 2, of injuries sustained in a single-car rollover accident, while enroute to his home in Albuquerque. 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 »
GLOBE Teacher Training Workshop
By NMT
The Global Learning and Observations to Benefit the Environment (GLOBE) science and education program recently held one of its Teacher Training Workshops on the New Mexico Tech campus in Socorro. 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 »
NMT and Sandia Sign MOU
By NMT
In a move to accredit the Weapon Intern Program and advance the state of the art of manufacturing technologies at the Department of Energy's Sandia National Laboratories, officials from the Labs and New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology will sign two memorandums of understanding (MOU) Tuesday, Dec. 11. 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 »
NM Tech Geoscientists present at GSA Conference
By George Zamora
A group of ten Earth scientists from New Mexico Tech currently are presenting results of their recent research projects at the 113th Annual Meeting of the Geological Society of America (GSA) in Boston's Hynes Convention Center. 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 »
NMT Zips Online with Internet2 Connection
By George Zamora
It's comparable to stepping up from a cartpath to an eight-lane superhighway, says Robert W. Tacker, director of Information Services at New Mexico Tech. View Entire Article »
Kelly Building Re-Dedicated
By George Zamora
New Mexico Tech's Kelly Petroleum Building, which houses the university's Petroleum Recovery Research Center (PRRC), was officially renamed in a rededication ceremony held on Wednesday afternoon, November 7; however, it will still continue to be known as "the Kelly Building." View Entire Article »
Advisory Board formed for EE Dept
By NMT
Several members of New Mexico Tech's Department of Electrical Engineering Industrial Advisory Board recently convened for their inaugural meeting, which was held on the university campus. View Entire Article »
Gary Olsen Retires
By Chelsea Buffington
Gary Olsen Retires View Entire Article »
Leading SETI Researcher to Speak
By Dave Finley
A leading figure in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) and in developing sophisticated arrays of radio telescopes will present the National Radio Astronomy Observatory's annual Karl G. Jansky Lecture in Socorro on Friday, November 9, at 8:00 p.m., at Macey Center on the New Mexico Tech campus. View Entire Article »
Regent Gutierrez Named a Center Director at Sandia
By Ken Frazier
Sidney M. "Sid" Gutierrez, president of the New Mexico Tech Board of Regents, has been promoted to Director of the Monitoring Systems Center at Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, succeeding Jerry Allen who is retiring this month. View Entire Article »
Wall Street Journal Names NMT "Hot School"
By Kathy Hedges
The Wall Street Journal, in an article published on Oct. 5, 2001, named New Mexico Tech to its list of "This Fall's Hot Schools." View Entire Article »
