New Mexico: Then & Now Photographs to be Presented
By NMT
New Mexico-based photographer William Stone will present a lecture and slide program on Friday, April 30 at 3:30 p.m. in Workman 101 on the campus of New Mexico Tech in Socorro. Stone will present images from his new book, New Mexico: Then & Now, published by Westcliffe Publishers in the fall of 2003. View Entire Article »
About that "M" . . .
By Valerie Kimble
Perhaps we can think of the periodic lighting of the "M" on Socorro Mountain as the modern equivalent of a New Mexico Tech tradition that is almost one hundred years old. View Entire Article »
NRAO and NMT Host Summer School on Radio Astronomy
By Dave Finley
The National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) and New Mexico Tech are hosting more than 150 students this week at a summer school aimed at teaching astronomers how to use radio telescopes, such as the Very Large Array (VLA) and the Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA). The students come from across the U.S. and from 12 foreign countries. 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 »
NM Tech Offers Summer Professional Development for Teachers
By George Zamora
Several science and math teachers from throughout New Mexico are spending part of their vacation this summer doing research and fieldwork in far-off places like Alaska, the Yucatan Peninsula, and British Columbia as part of a professional development program offered by New Mexico Tech in Socorro. View Entire Article »
Applications Open for New Mexico Tech 2004 Summer Mini Courses
By George Zamora
Applications currently are being accepted for New Mexico Tech's 2004 Summer Mini Courses, a summer program offering for high school students which is held each July at the research university in Socorro. View Entire Article »
New Mexico Geology Studies Raton Basin's Methane Production
By Rachel Armstrong
The most recent issue of New Mexico Geology focuses on the study of coalbed methane production in the Raton Basin near Vermejo Park, west of Raton. View Entire Article »
Wilson Chairs Workshop on National Water Research Issues
By NMT Earth and Environmental Science Department
Dr. John Wilson, professor of hydrology in New Mexico Tech's Department of Earth and Environmental Science (EES), co-chaired a joint National Science Foundation?Department of Energy (NSF-DOE) workshop on "Water: Challenges at the Intersection of Human and Natural Systems," held during the week of September 20, 2004, in Richland, Washington. 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 »
NM Tech Cave Science Expert To Be Featured on Nova
By George Zamora
Penelope J. Boston, a research associate professor of cave and karst science at New Mexico Tech, will be featured prominently in the second segment of the NOVA four-part miniseries, ?Origins,' which is scheduled to be broadcast tomorrow evening on PBS television affiliates throughout the nation. View Entire Article »
Wilkening Display at New Mexico Tech's Skeen Library
By George Zamora
An exhibit of books and photographs focusing on the historic events culminating in the first atomic bomb explosion at Trinity Site is now on display at New Mexico Tech's Joseph R. Skeen Library. View Entire Article »
Unfinished Painting by Depression-Era New Mexico Artist Discovered
By NMT
When the New Mexico chapter of the National New Deal Preservation Association (NNDPA) undertook some restoration work on a 1930s painting by Gisella Loeffler, an Albuquerque art conservator discovered that on the back of the painting was another, unfinished work by the artist. The painting being restored is "Mexican Dancers," and it is owned by and housed at the Joseph R. Skeen Library at New Mexico Tech. It is one of a number of such Depression Era paintings housed at Tech's main library. View Entire Article »
"Amazing Randi" to Talk at Summer Science Program at
NM Tech
By George Zamora
"The Amazing Randi," world-famous magician, escape
artist, author, and most recently, debunker of pseudo-sciences, will be the featured speaker at an upcoming presentation at the Summer Science Program at New Mexico Tech. View Entire Article »
Deadline Approaches for Summer Science Program at NM Tech
By NMT
New Mexico high school juniors (and exceptional sophomores), take note: the application deadline for one of the nation's oldest and most prestigious research programs for academically gifted teenagers?the renowned Summer Science Program is fast approaching. View Entire Article »
"Taking a Spin . . ."
By NMT
Members of the New Mexico Tech Physics Club put on a hands-on physics demonstration at the recent Rocky Mountain Talent Search awards ceremony, which was held in the university's Workman Center. Talent Search is an academic talent search program providing opportunities for assessment, recognition, and summer enrichment programs for academically talented youth in Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming. View Entire Article »
NM Tech's Skeen Library Inaugurates New Series of Exhibits and Lectures
By George Zamora
New Mexico Tech's Joseph R. Skeen Library and the New Mexico Museum of Natural History (NMMNH) are teaming up to kick off a new ongoing series of "on-loan" exhibits and lectures at the university library, with an inaugural exhibit and lecture on a prehistoric New Mexico wildfire, scheduled for Wednesday, May 12. View Entire Article »
Local Students and Teacher Sponsors Take the Challenge
By Mike Topliff
Twelve Socorro-area students are participating in the 15th annual New Mexico Adventures in Supercomputing Challenge, called "the Challenge" by those in the know. View Entire Article »
From the Eye of the Storm at New Mexico Tech
By Valerie Kimble
Never tempt the weather gods who watch over the Land of Enchantment. View Entire Article »
NM Tech History Professor Co-Edits Book on Atomic Culture
By George Zamora
When you walk into New Mexico Tech history professor Scott Zeman's office you immediately get the strange feeling that something is inexplicably amiss. Maybe it has something to do with the giant red ant lurking in the corner. View Entire Article »
