Resurfacing the 100-inch Telescope
By George Zamora
Ever since 1997, New Mexico Tech professor of electrical engineering Scott Teare has spent the better part of his summers in the mountains near Pasadena, Calif., working on the 100-inch Hooker telescope at the Mount Wilson Observatory. 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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 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. 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 »
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 »
Scott Teare, Faculty Member and Research Physicist
By George Zamora
After six months on the job at New Mexico Tech, Scott Teare has been dividing his time between being a professor of electrical engineering (EE) and a research physicist for the Magdalena Ridge Observatory (MRO) in his dual role at the state-supported research university. 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 »
