NMT, SAIC To Sign Agreement
By George Zamora
New Mexico Tech is poised to enter into a strategic agreement with Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC), which will allow the public university and the private company to jointly pursue business opportunities in areas of mutual interest. View Entire Article »
Funding Secured for NMT First Responders Program
By NMT
U.S. Senator Pete Domenici today secured funding to support activities in New Mexico that strengthen the nation's homeland security efforts, including $20 million to continue New Mexico Tech's first responder training program. View Entire Article »
NMT and Seismology Consortium Get Go-Ahead for EarthScope Project
By George Zamora, Rick Aster
New Mexico Tech and the national seismology consortium, IRIS, which supports the university's PASSCAL Instrument Center, have been given the go-ahead to proceed with plans to develop EarthScope, a continent-spanning geophysics research observatory that will use thousands of ultra-sensitive seismometers to study the deep Earth. View Entire Article »
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 »
Winners of 2003 Science Fair Announced
By Kathy Hedges
Winners have been announced for the 51st Annual New Mexico Science and Engineering Fair, held at New Mexico Tech. Tech, the state's leading college in science and engineering, hosts the fair every year. View Entire Article »
Hydrology Grad Student Boutt Receives AGU Horton Research Grant
By George Zamora
David F. Boutt, a doctoral candidate in New Mexico Tech's nationally renowned hydrology program, recently was named the 2002-2003 recipient of the American Geophysical Union's (AGU) Horton Research Grant. View Entire Article »
New Travel Services Contracts at NMT
By George Zamora
The New Mexico Tech Board of Regents recently approved multi-year contracts awarded to three travel agencies, which will provide departments and research divisions at the university with comprehensive travel services in an efficient
and cost-effective manner. View Entire Article »
Anastas Receives Certificate of Appreciation
By NMT
George Anastas, Health Physicist and Nuclear Engineer with the Environmental Evaluation Group(EEG) of New Mexico Tech, was recently honored by the Department of Homeland Security. View Entire Article »
New Mexico's Top "Intelletes" Vie for for Science Olympiad Honors
By George Zamora
Nearly 800 student "intelletes" representing 23 middle schools and 29 high schools from throughout New Mexico will tax their knowledge and motor skills in 44 spirited academic contests at the 17th annual New Mexico Science Olympiad on Saturday, February 22, on the New Mexico Tech campus. View Entire Article »
NMT Hosts Engineering Weekend and Research@Tech Day
By George Zamora
In conjunction with next week's observance of National Engineering Week, New Mexico Tech will host two big events on its campus, which are designed to increase public awareness and appreciation of engineering professions and encourage precollege interest in science and technology. View Entire Article »
NMT Expands Online Course Offerings
By Rachel Armstrong
For the past decade, New Mexico Tech, a leader in science and engineering education and research, has developed a Distance Education program that allows working professionals the opportunity to earn their master of science degree with the convenience of never setting foot on the Socorro campus. View Entire Article »
NMT to Host Astronomy Oriented Summer Science Program
By George Zamora
New Mexico Tech will play host this summer to about three dozen of the nation's most academically gifted high school students, when the renowned Summer Science Program (SSP) expands into its second home at the university campus in Socorro. View Entire Article »
NMT is a "Best Value"?U.S. News & World Report
By George Zamora
New Mexico Tech has been listed among the best values among national universities in a new college guide published this month by U.S. News & World Report. View Entire Article »
Wilkening Donates Papers to Skeen Library
By George Zamora
A retired New Mexico Tech physics professor who was "in the delivery room" when the nuclear age was born has donated the bulk of his memoirs, papers, historic artifacts, and personal library to the university's Joseph R. Skeen Library. 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 »
DOMENICI CONTINUES FUNDING FOR N.M. TECH SEISMOLOGY RESEARCH
By NMT
U.S. Senator Pete Domenici, chairman of the Energy and Water Development Appropriations Subcommittee, today reported success in gaining initial support for $3 million in Department of Energy funding to continue support for advanced seismology research conducted at the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology at Socorro. View Entire Article »
COMMITTEE PASSES FUNDING FOR ANTI-TERROR AND LAW ENFORCEMENT TRAINING IN ROSWELL
By NMT
bill that includes millions of dollars of funding sought by U.S. Senator Pete Domenici for the International Law Enforcement Academy (ILEA) in Roswell and the Antiterrorism Assistance Program (ATA) was approved today by the Senate Appropriations Committee. View Entire Article »
Dr. Matthew Silva Participates in Conference
By NMT
Dr. Matthew Silva, Director of the New Mexico Environmental Evaluation Group (EEG) is a participant in the 27th biennial Material Research Society Conference on the Scientific Basis for Nuclear Waste Management, June 15-19 in Kalmar, Sweden. View Entire Article »
Prestigious Science Program Opens at New Mexico Tech
By NMT
On Saturday, June 28, New Mexico Tech will officially welcome to its campus one of the nation's oldest and most prestigious research-based programs for academically gifted teenagers?the Summer Science Program (SSP)?as the university celebrates "SSP Day at New Mexico Tech". View Entire Article »
N.M. Reps Lobby to Reinstate Tech Anti-Terrorism Programs
By George Zamora
A proposed plan by the U. S. Department of State to relocate or even eliminate two Anti-Terrorism Assistance (ATA) programs that are currently in operation at New Mexico Tech has run into strong bipartisan opposition from the U. S. Capitol to the State Capitol. View Entire Article »
Sandia, LANL, NMT to conduct Energetic Materials Research
By NMT
Officials of Sandia National Laboratories, Los Alamos National Laboratory, and the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology this week are establishing the Center for Energetic Materials and Energetic Devices (CEMED). View Entire Article »
NMT Awarded Funding for Counter-Terrorism Training
By NMT
U.S. Senator Pete Domenici today heralded the award of $19.8 million he secured for the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology (New Mexico Tech) domestic counter-terrorism training program in Socorro. View Entire Article »
NMT Kicks off Re-Accreditation Cycle with Techsmart 2004
By George Zamora
New Mexico Tech is kicking off its latest North Central Association (NCA) re-accreditation process next week with a less-than-formal event that promises to be great fun for everyone involved. View Entire Article »
New Mexico Tech Vice President Romero Named a Top Lobbyist
By George Zamora
New Mexico Tech Vice President Van Romero has been tapped as one of "six lobbyists who made an impact in 2003" in an article featured in this month's issue of Influence magazine. View Entire Article »
Storey Wins Top Presentation Award at SHPE Conference
By George Zamora
New Mexico Tech senior Isaiah K. Storey was awarded top honors for a technical paper presentation he gave last month at a national conference sponsored by the Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers. View Entire Article »
Large Portion of Oscilloscope Cost is Donated to NMT
By George Zamora
Tektronix, Inc., one of largest test and measurement companies in the world, recently donated the equivalent of $30,600 to New Mexico Tech by providing the state-supported research university with a 40 percent discount off the regular purchase price of one of the company's top-end, high-performance oscilloscope and software packages. View Entire Article »
Bureau of Geology Publishes Geologic Map of New Mexico
By Rachel Armstrong
The New Mexico Bureau of Geology and Mineral Resources (NMBGMR), in cooperation with the U.S. Geological Survey, recently published a large, poster-size geologic map of New Mexico, which offers a concise geologic view of the entire state. View Entire Article »
NM Bureau of Geology Publishes Study on Caballo Mountains
By Rachel Armstrong
The New Mexico Bureau of Geology and Mineral Resources (NMBGMR) recently published a memoir that presents a study of the Caballo Mountains and their unique, relatively complete geologic history. View Entire Article »
CEMED Signing Ceremony
By George Zamora
Representatives of New Mexico Tech, Sandia National Laboratories, and Los Alamos National Laboratory recently convened in Albuquerque to sign a memorandum of understanding which officially establishes the Center for Energetic Materials and Energetic Devices (CEMED). View Entire Article »
NMT Physics Club Garners Prestigious National Award
By George Zamora
The New Mexico Tech Physics Club recently was awarded a prestigious Blake Lilly Prize for 2002-2003 by the national office of the Society for Physics Students (SPS), becoming one of only three SPS chapters nationwide chosen to receive this year's awards. View Entire Article »
NM Tech Residential Life Manager Garners Regional Award
By George Zamora
Dennis Schumacher, manager of the New Mexico Tech Residential Life Office, recently was honored by his colleagues in a regional professional organization by being awarded this year's Association of Intermountain Housing Offices (AIMHO) Distinguished Service Award. View Entire Article »
Abbott Honored by NMT Research Foundation
By George Zamora
Longtime Hobbs resident William G. Abbott recently was honored by the New Mexico Tech Research Foundation after completing 17 years of service as a trustee for the foundation, which is affiliated with New Mexico Tech in Socorro. View Entire Article »
David Ladner named Engineering Student of the Year Runnerup at NMT
By George Zamora
David Ladner, a Silver City native who is now a senior majoring in environmental engineering at New Mexico Tech, recently was named the research university's "Engineering Student of the Year Runnerup." 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 »
NMT Named in Princeton Review's Best Colleges
By George Zamora
New Mexico Tech is one of the nation's best institutions for an undergraduate education, according to the recently published 2004 edition of The Princeton Review Guide to the Best 351 Colleges. View Entire Article »
U.S.News & World Report Ranks New Mexico Tech
By George Zamora
New Mexico Tech has again been included among the 64 universities that make up the third tier grouping in the "Best National Universities?Doctoral" category in the latest annual rankings published by U.S.News & World Report. View Entire Article »
NM Tech Math Lecturer Helps Start Up Kuwaiti University
By George Zamora
While most university faculty use sabbaticals or leaves of absence to catch up on research or publish scholarly papers, one New Mexico Tech faculty member is using his time away from work to launch an entirely new enterprise?an international university based in the Middle East. View Entire Article »
Gov. Richardson Appoints Three New Regents
By George Zamora
New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson today announced his appointments of regents to each of the governing boards of the state's universities, including three new regents for New Mexico Tech. 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 »
National Cave & Karst Research Inst. Is Established
By NMT
A research and educational collaboration that pools together the resources and expertise of state and local governments, federal agencies, and public universities has resulted in the establishment of a national research center in New Mexico which promises to take the lead in the study and management of caves and their related karst formations around the world. View Entire Article »
NMT Considering Purchase of Playas, N.M.
By NMT
U.S. Senator Pete Domenici today welcomed news that the Phelps Dodge Corp. will move forward with plans to allow New Mexico Tech, on behalf of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, to purchase the town of Playas. View Entire Article »
Pending Finalization of Playas Purchase Boosts Homeland Security
By George Zamora
Barring any last-minute hitches in ongoing purchase negotiations, "88009" might soon become one of the most important ZIP codes for the nation's homeland security programs, especially if plans pan out to convert the town of Playas, N.M. into a "real-world" training facility for New Mexico Tech's first-responders and anti-terrorism programs. View Entire Article »
Albuquerque Academy Sweeps State Science Olympiad
By George Zamora
The Albuquerque Academy made a clean sweep of it at 17th annual New Mexico Science Olympiad, winning both the high school and middle school divisions of the statewide academic competition, which was held today on the New Mexico Tech campus. View Entire Article »
NM Tech Teams Sweep Regional Computer Programming Contest
By George Zamora
Four teams of New Mexico Tech undergraduates recently traveled to Durango to compete in a regional computer programming contest and swept the field, returning to Socorro with the event's top four awards. View Entire Article »
March 29 Declared "NMT Rugby Day" Statewide
By George Zamora
New Mexico Tech has not fielded an intercollegiate baseball, football, or basketball team since the late-1940s; however, rugby football has filled in its own special niche in the research university's student life, social life, and sporting life since the early 1970s. View Entire Article »
NMT Adds Two New Graduate Programs to its Curricula
By George Zamora
New Mexico Tech has added two new graduate degree programs to its science and engineering curricula?a master of science degree in electrical engineering and a doctoral program in applied and industrial mathematics. View Entire Article »
Domenici Seeks Meeting with Iraqi Oil Minister (Tech Alumnus) to Discuss Nation's Effort to Boost Production
By NMT
U.S. Senator Pete Domenici today indicated a willingness to soon meet with Iraqi Oil Minister Dr. Ibrahim Bahr al-Uloum, alumnus of New Mexico Tech, to discuss efforts to ramp up Iraq's oil production in order to help stabilize the
newly-freed nation's economy. View Entire Article »
New Mexico Women's Conference
By Rachel Armstrong
For the first time in its 30-year history, the annual New Mexico Women's Studies Conference will be hosted by New Mexico Tech, this coming Friday and Saturday, February 28-March 1, at various locations on the research university's campus. View Entire Article »
NMT Beginning a New Era in Seismology with USArray
By Dr. Rick Aster and George Zamora
New Mexico Tech is commencing with a major upgrade of its seismology capabilities, and the research university is also poised to play a major role in a continental-scale geophysics research project that will use arrays of ultra-sensitive seismometers to obtain detailed images of the Earth's inner workings. View Entire Article »
NM Tech President Co-Chairs Education Secretary Committee
By George Zamora
New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson announced today that he has appointed New Mexico Tech President Daniel H. L?pez as the co-chair of the 30-member search committee that has been tasked with nominating a candidate, or candidates, for the newly created Cabinet-level position of State Secretary of Education. View Entire Article »
NMT Regains State Dept. Support for ATA
By NMT
In a bipartisan, bicameral effort to support New Mexico Tech and Socorro County, Rep. Steve Pearce with Senators Pete Domenici and Jeff Bingaman have successfully worked with the Department of State to ensure that Antiterrorism programs remain at New Mexico Tech. View Entire Article »
56th Girls State Held at New Mexico Tech
By George Zamora
More than 250 high school juniors representing over 100 high schools from throughout New Mexico will attend a week-long series of educational workshops at the 56th annual session of New Mexico Girls State, which will be held the week of June 1 to June 6 on the New Mexico Tech campus. View Entire Article »
NMT, USAF Sign Cooperative Agreement
By MNT
Creating new opportunities for technology transfer is the primary purpose of a cooperative research and development agreement signed Friday between the Air Force here and the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology in Socorro, N.M. View Entire Article »
Jeremiah Wright Memorial Scholarship Established at New Mexico Tech
By George Zamora
A memorial scholarship fund has been established at New Mexico Tech in honor of a Tech student who died last September in a two-car accident that occurred on an intersection along Socorro's main thoroughfare. View Entire Article »
NM Tech Geologists To Present Research at Geological Society of America Sectional Meeting
By Rachel Armstrong
David W. Love, Nelia Dunbar, and William C. McIntosh, geologists at the New Mexico Bureau of Geology and Mineral Resources (NMBGMR), in cooperation with Isleta Pueblo geologists and New Mexico Tech alumni John Sorrell and David Pierce, will present their geoscience research at the 55th Annual Meeting of the Rocky Mountain Section of the Geological Society of America (GSA). 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 »
51st Annual New Mexico Science and Engineering Fair Slated
By George Zamora
More than 500 middle school and high school scholars from throughout the state will exhibit their research projects on Saturday, April 12, at the 51st Annual New Mexico Science and Engineering Fair on the New Mexico Tech campus. View Entire Article »
Pearce, Domenci & Bingaman Lobby Sec. of State Powell to Reinstate Tech Antiterrorism Programs
By NMT
In a bipartisan effort to support New Mexico Tech and Socorro County, Rep. Steve Pearce with Senators Pete Domenici and Jeff Bingaman sent a letter yesterday to Secretary of State Colin Powell asking him to reinstate two Antiterrorism Assistance (ATA) programs at New Mexico Tech that have been slated for elimination. View Entire Article »
New Mexico Tech to Lease Local Apartments to Accommodate Growth
By George Zamora
The New Mexico Tech Board of Regents approved a measure at its February 25 meeting in Santa Fe, which will allow the university to enter into a lease agreement for a Socorro apartment complex, beginning as early as the 2003 Fall Semester. 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 »
Luna Community College and New Mexico Tech "STEPP" Up
By Debbie Trujillo
A recent award by the U.S. Department of Education to Luna Community College in Las Vegas, N.M. and New Mexico Tech in Socorro will provide funding to strengthen science education programs in minority institutions of higher education, as well as to promote access for minorities to careers in science and technology. View Entire Article »
New Mexico Tech Invites Students To Focus on Optics
By Kathy Hedges
Few subjects animate Scott Teare more than New Mexico Tech's new program in optical science and engineering. View Entire Article »
Professional Development Program at NMT Benefits New Mexico Teachers
By Kathy Hedges
Twenty-eight teachers from 12 school districts around the state have just finished the first class of an innovative professional development program at New Mexico Tech. The program provides development for secondary science and math teachers and wraps up next June. View Entire Article »
A Historic Breakfast
By George Zamora
Mexican President Vicente Fox recently paid a historic visit to New Mexico?the first ever by a Mexican head of state?and was treated to a breakfast reception in Santa Fe, which was co-hosted by New Mexico Tech. View Entire Article »
NMT's Altamirano Student Apartments to be Formally Dedicated
By George Zamora
New Mexico Tech's on-campus student apartment complex will officially be designated as the "Ben D. Altamirano Student Apartments" at a dedication ceremony scheduled for 2 p.m on Friday, April 11, on the university campus. View Entire Article »
2003 Commencement
By Kathleen Hedges
Nearly 300 people will receive academic degrees from New Mexico Tech at the university's commencement on Saturday, May 17. View Entire Article »
NM Tech Study Reassesses Nitrogen Availability in Desert Soils
By George Zamora
A New Mexico Tech hydrology professor and U.S. Geological Survey scientist who earned her doctorate at Tech have teamed up with five other researchers to co-author a groundbreaking scientific article in the latest issue of the prestigious journal Science, which details the discovery of large reservoirs of nitrates that had previously been overlooked in studies of global nitrogen distribution. View Entire Article »
NMT Gets Federal Grant to Excite Children About Astronomy
By NMT
U.S. Senator Pete Domenici today reported that the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology at Socorro has landed a $422,235 grant through the U.S. Department of Education (DoEd) to expand as a program to make astronomy more exciting to youth. 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 »
NMT Named Regional Leader for Carbon Sequestration Project
By George Zamora
New Mexico Tech has been named the lead management organization for the Southwest Regional Partnership for Carbon Sequestration, part of a newly formed nationwide network of universities, state agencies, and private companies tasked with studying the best approaches for capturing and permanently storing, or "sequestering," greenhouse gases that affect global climate change. View Entire Article »
Anastas Commended by NM Homeland Security
By NMT
George Anastas, health physicist and nuclear engineer with the Environmental Evaluation Group (EEG) of New Mexico Tech, recently received a letter of commendation from the organizers of the New Mexico Homeland Security "Combating Terrorism" Conference, which was held during the last week of October at the Isleta Pueblo Conference Center. View Entire Article »
