NMT Partners with Well Control School to Offer Courses
By George Zamora
New Mexico Tech has entered into an agreement with Well Control School (WCS) of Harvey, La., to better provide certification and training courses to thousands of oil industry engineers and field technicians throughout the nation via the research university's distance-education capabilities and technologies. View Entire Article »
Orr Memorial Endowed Professorship Established at NMT
By George Zamora
New Mexico Tech's first-ever endowed professorship has been established at the research university in memory of the late Patrick Kirpatrick Orr, a computer science professor who taught at Tech in the late-1970s and early 1980s. View Entire Article »
HRH Prince Andrew Visits NMT, MRO
By George Zamora
His Royal Highness Prince Andrew, Duke of York, visited several New Mexico Tech research facilities today, including the mountaintop site of the university's soon-to-be-constructed Magdalena Ridge Observatory (MRO), located 16
miles west of Socorro atop the Magdalena Mountains. View Entire Article »
HRH Prince Andrew Set to Visit NMT
By NMT
His Royal Highness Prince Andrew, Duke of York, is scheduled to visit several research facilities on and
near the New Mexico Tech campus on Monday, October 20. View Entire Article »
NM Tech Geoscientists Present Research at GSA Annual Meeting
By George Zamora
Several New Mexico Tech geoscientists will travel to Seattle next week to present talks and posters about their current research at the 115th annual meeting of the Geological Society of America (GSA), which is being held November 2-5 at the Washington State Convention and Trade Center. View Entire Article »
NM Tech Physics Club Trebuchet Chucks Pumpkin 300 Feet
By George Zamora
The New Mexico Tech Physics Club won top honors by launching a pumpkin the entire length of a football field with its hand-built trebuchet at the recently held Fifth Annual Pumpkin Chunkin' Contest in Estancia, N.M. View Entire Article »
NMT Listed First in the Nation in Earmarked Federal Funds
By George Zamora
New Mexico Tech is the nation's top recipient of Congressionally approved earmarked research funds, according to recent rankings published by View Entire Article »
NM Tech President L?pez Named Again as NM "Power Broker"
By NMT
New Mexico Tech President Daniel H. L?pez has been named again as one of the state's top 140 "power brokers" by New Mexico Business Weekly in its recently published 2004 POWER Book. View Entire Article »
Kiplinger's Ranks NMT as Nation's Eighteenth Best Buy
By George Zamora
New Mexico Tech has been listed as the nation's 18th best buy among public colleges and universities in rankings
published in the current issue of Kiplinger's Personal Finance magazine. View Entire Article »
Earth Matters Focuses on Water in New Mexico
By Rachel Armstrong
The primary focus of the current issue of New Mexico EARTH MATTERS, a free, semi-annual newsletter published by the New Mexico Bureau of Geology and Mineral Resources (NMBGMR) focuses on water resources in New Mexico. View Entire Article »
NMT Ruggers Overcome Odds
By Dave Wheelock
As happens from time to time, the demands upon budding engineers and scientists dealt New Mexico Tech's rugby team lemons last weekend (Sept. 27-28). And so, in the best tradition of the 30-year-old club, a shorthanded Pygmy team made lemonade, managing two tournament wins against one loss in the rarified air of Flagstaff, Arizona. View Entire Article »
Tech Ruggers Winners in Vegas
By Dave Wheelock
New Mexico Tech's rugby team beat the house and the weather in Las Vegas (NM) Saturday, bringing home a 30-14 win over the Highlands University Rugby Club. The Pygmies squeezed four tries into the narrow confines of Perkins Stadium and between intermittent showers while yielding the home team two scores for the difference. View Entire Article »
NMT Ruggers Reprise Giant-killing Tradition
By Dave Wheelock
The New Mexico Tech rugby team returned to an honored club tradition to put a flourish on a 2-1 record in the 32nd running of the High Desert Classic tournament in Albuquerque over the weekend. Tech went up against heavily favored Rice University in their third match of a long Saturday, and came away with another famous victory to enhance the Pygmy mystique. View Entire Article »
NMT Ruggers Are Accommodating Hosts
By Dave Wheelock
New Mexico Tech's Pygmies were the perfect rugby hosts for their elders, the Ancestor alumni team, over the 49ers weekend (Oct. 24-25, 2003). They welcomed the veterans with a fine meal at a local restaurant on Friday night, hosted a golf tournament on Saturday morning, and entertained with a bonfire on Saturday night. And, for that special touch, they dutifully lost the annual Black & Blue rugby match before a good crowd on Friday afternoon, by the convincing score of 51-10. View Entire Article »
