Petroleum Recovery Research Center Garners DOE Funding
By George Zamora
Four new research projects to develop the nation's oil and gas resources and protect water resources will soon start up at the Petroleum Recovery Research Center (PRRC), a research division of New Mexico Tech, as a result of recently acquired federal funding totaling nearly $4,750,000 which was garnered through the U.S. Department of Energy's National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL). View Entire Article »
PRRC Staff Win Honors
By NMT
PRRC Director, Dr. Robert Lee, was awarded the Bob Moran Statesmanship Award for 2004 by the Independent Petroleum Association of New Mexico (IPANM). Lee was presented with the award at a luncheon on August 6, 2004, during the IPANM's annual meeting in Ruidoso, New Mexico. View Entire Article »
NM Tech Students Study in Brazil in Summer Exchange Program
By George Zamora
Seven Tech students?four from New Mexico Tech and three from Tennessee Tech?traveled to study in Brazil this past summer session as part of an international student exchange program funded by the U.S. Department of Education. During the condensed six-week-long program, participants took classes in mineral engineering topics and experienced first-hand the subtleties and nuances of Brazilian society and culture. View Entire Article »
Lite Geology Focuses on Toys Adrift in Ocean Currents
By Rachel Armstrong
The New Mexico Bureau of Geology and Mineral Resources (NMBGMR) has published the most recent issue of its newsletter Lite Geology. The current issue focuses on rubber duckies. View Entire Article »
New Mexico Geology Releases Two New Issues
By Rachel Armstrong
Two new issues of New Mexico Geology have been recently released. One focuses on earthquakes in New Mexico and the other on assemblages of Late Pennsylvanian marine invertebrates in the Holder Formation along Dry Canyon in the Sacramento Mountains of south-central New Mexico. View Entire Article »
Network of Hydrologic Observatories Will Revolutionize Water Research
By NMT Earth Science Dept.
More than 100 universities from around the country met at Utah State University in Logan, Utah, on August 24 and 25, to consider the development of a network of hydrologic observatories around the country. NMT hydrology professor John Wilson was co-chair of the conference. View Entire Article »
Ribbon-Cutting Heralds Opening of Optics Research Facility
By George Zamora
A university/ business partnership forged nearly two years ago between New Mexico Tech and Mu?iz Engineering, Inc. of Houston has now resulted in the official opening of a world-class optics research and manufacturing center in Albuquerque. View Entire Article »
