NM Tech Researchers Drill for Geothermal Energy Source
By George Zamora
Two New Mexico Tech geoscientists are embarking on an exploratory drilling project on the western edge of the Socorro campus in hopes of finding a reliable source of geothermal energy that would provide the university with an efficient, inexpensive heating and cooling system, as well as reduced energy bills. View Entire Article »
Sen. Pete Domenici Honored with Named Endowment at New Mexico Tech
By Matt Letourneau
U.S. Senator Pete Domenici today credited the "can do" attitude demonstrated by New Mexico Tech for giving the school a leading role in homeland security, antiterrorism efforts, and bringing new job opportunities to the central New Mexico region. View Entire Article »
NM Tech Administrators Share Expertise with Bahraini Officials
By George Zamora
A team of experts from New Mexico Tech, Vanderbilt University, and the U.S. Department of Justice were in Bahrain last month sharing their knowledge and experience at a four-day conference on counter-terrorism preparedness and response. View Entire Article »
Dr. Thomas Strong Joins NCKRI
By NMT
The Carlsbad based National Cave and Karst Research Institute has taken another major step forward in its development with the addition of a new Visiting Chief Scientist. Dr. Thomas Strong, Ph.D. joins the Institute, bringing expertise in cave science research, biology and resource management. 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 »
New Mexico Tech Professor Develops Online Robotics Textbook
By George Zamora
A New Mexico Tech electrical engineering professor has developed an online robotics textbook that utilizes the most up-to-date Internet technology, such as three-dimensional imaging and interactive math formulas, and has made the cutting-edge coursework freely available to users throughout the world. View Entire Article »
New Mexico Earth Science Achievement Awards Presentation
By Rachel Armstrong
On January 30, 2004, the first New Mexico Earth Science Achievement Awards were presented to Representative Joe Stell of Carlsbad, and to Dr. John W. Shomaker of Albuquerque. These awards, cosponsored by the New Mexico Bureau of Geology and Mineral Resources (NMBGMR) in Socorro, and the Energy, Minerals and Natural Resources Department (EMNRD) in Santa Fe, are presented annually to honor individuals who have made outstanding contributions to advancing or facilitating the role of geoscience in the areas of education, research, public service, and public policy in New Mexico. View Entire Article »
NM Tech Receives Award for Water Treatment
By NMT
U.S. Senator Pete Domenici today welcomed news that New Mexico Tech in Socorro has been awarded over $1.1 million through the Department of Energy's Fossil Energy Oil Program to develop a new method that treats brackish water produced by oil and gas exploration that could contaminate clean water systems. View Entire Article »
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 »
New Mexico Tech Board of Regents Approves Purchase of Playas
By George Zamora
The New Mexico Tech Board of Regents has officially approved a purchase agreement that allows the state-supported research university in Socorro to move forward on becoming the owner of Playas, New Mexico. View Entire Article »
Socorro High School Students To Take Calculus at NMT
By George Zamora
Socorro High School students will now be able to take Calculus I at New Mexico Tech, free of charge, under a newly established pilot program for the 2004-2005 academic year, which is set to get underway this coming fall semester. View Entire Article »
NM Tech Vice President Romero Named To "Players" List
By George Zamora
New Mexico Tech Vice President Van Romero has been named one of the state's top business and economic development leaders in the cover article of the current issue of New Mexico Business Journal. View Entire Article »
NM Tech President Lopez Named again as NM Power Broker
By George Zamora
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 2005 POWER Book. This marks the third year in a row the university president has been included in the annual directory of "who's who" among the state's business and political communities. View Entire Article »
Acting DOE Under Secretary Garman Announces New Funding
By George Zamora
Acting Under Secretary of Energy David Garman formally announced the start of six major research projects in New Mexico at a press conference today. The projects are all being funded by more than $5 million in research grants provided by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). Four of the new research projects, which are designed to develop the nation's oil and gas resources and protect water resources, will be conducted at the Petroleum Recovery Research Center (PRRC) in Socorro, a research division of New Mexico Tech. View Entire Article »
NM Tech Senior Ranks in Top 200 in Putnam Math Competition
By George Zamora
Alexander Rand, a senior majoring in mathematics and computer science at New Mexico Tech, recently was ranked among the top 200 individual scorers in the 64th annual William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition. View Entire Article »
NMT Listed in America's 100 Best College Buys
By George Zamora
New Mexico Tech has once again been recognized as one of the nation's best values available for a university education. 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 »
New Mexico Tech and Los Alamos National Labs Sign Memo of Understanding (MOU)
By George Zamora
New Mexico Tech and Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) have officially entered into a memorandum of understanding (MOU) that is designed to strengthen interactions between the two entities by providing additional opportunities for research, education, recruitment, and retention. View Entire Article »
Lab Equipment Donated to Mechanical Engineering Department
By George Zamora
Boeing-SVS, a high-tech company that develops laser and optics systems for the U.S. defense industry, recently donated a set of state-of-the-art laboratory and testing equipment to the New Mexico Tech Department of Mechanical Engineering. View Entire Article »
New Mexico Tech and Cambridge Sign Memo of Understanding
By George Zamora
New Mexico Tech and the University of Cambridge's Cavendish Laboratory in the United Kingdom have entered into a memorandum of understanding (MOU) that is designed to strengthen collaborative research efforts between the two entities, with particular regard to the design, development, and operation of the Magdalena Ridge Observatory (MRO). View Entire Article »
NM Tech Professor David Raymond on Fulbright to Croatia
By George Zamora
New Mexico Tech physics professor David Raymond has received a Fulbright Senior Specialists grant in environmental science and will now spend the first two weeks of June teaching at the University of Zagreb in Croatia. 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 »
NM Tech Tau Beta Pi Chapter Named One of Top Three Chapters Nationwide
By NMT
The New Mexico Gamma Chapter of Tau Beta Pi, the Engineering Honor Society, recently received honorable mention in the 2003 R.C. Matthews Outstanding Chapter Award competition. The chapter at New Mexico Tech was selected as one of the top three chapters among all 228 chapters throughout the United States. View Entire Article »
State Matching Funds Sought for EPSCoR Hydrologic Study
By George Zamora
The New Mexico State Legislature is considering a bill this current session that would provide matching funding for a proposed National Science Foundation (NSF) research program that will focus on the management of the state's water resources. View Entire Article »
Governor's Office of Homeland Security Hosts Conference
By NMT
Brigadier General Annette Sobel, Director of the Governor's Office of Homeland Security, and Daniel L?pez, President of New Mexico Tech, will host a two-day conference in Socorro with Centinela, a Mexican Federal Homeland Security group. The conference, being held on the university campus on October 27-28, will help improve border security cooperation. View Entire Article »
New Mexico Receives Grant for Underground Mine Mapping Initiative
By Rachel Armstrong
New Mexico Tech, the U.S. Department of Labor's Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA), and several other state government entities have teamed up to assist with the development of an electronic inventory of maps for abandoned underground mines in New Mexico. View Entire Article »
It's Official: New Mexico Tech Is New Owner of Playas, N.M.
By George Zamora
It's official: New Mexico Tech, a state-supported research university in Socorro, is the new owner of Playas, N.M., a former Phelps Dodge company town located in southwest New Mexico that will now be converted into one of the nation's top locations for counter-terrorism training. View Entire Article »
Domenici, Pearce Announce Commitment to Utilize Playas as Training Center
By NMT
U.S. Senator Pete Domenici and Congressman Steve Pearce today announced that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has formally committed to using the town of Playas for training purposes, a move that clears the way for New Mexico Tech to purchase the community to establish a security training center. View Entire Article »
Domenici Moves to Prep Playas to Become Homeland Security Training Center
By NMT
U.S. Senator Pete Domenici today made a formal request for federal funding for an environmental assessment that could speed up the ongoing effort to establish a national homeland security training center out of the entire town of Playas. View Entire Article »
NM Tech Hosts Inaugural Event at Playas Training Center
By George Zamora
New Mexico Tech, a state-supported research university in Socorro, opened up its new Playas Training Center in Playas, N.M. today with a bang. View Entire Article »
Public Comments Sought on New Mexico Tech Re-Accreditation
By George Zamora
As part of an ongoing re-accreditation process, New Mexico Tech is scheduled to undergo a comprehensive evaluation visit on October 4-6, 2004, by a team representing the Higher Learning Commission of the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools (NCA). New Mexico Tech has been accredited by the NCA since 1914. View Entire Article »
NM Tech Geoscientists Present Research Findings at GSA Annual Meeting
By George Zamora
Several New Mexico Tech geoscientists presented talks and posters about their research at the 116th annual meeting of the Geological Society of America (GSA), which was held November 7-10 at the Colorado Convention Center. View Entire Article »
William Lujan Places First in AIChE Regional Paper Competition
By George Zamora
William Lujan, a junior majoring in chemical engineering at New Mexico Tech, placed first in a research paper competition held recently at the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) regional conference at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah. 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 »
NM Tech Signs Contract for First Telescope for MRO Project
By George Zamora
New Mexico Tech has signed a $4.5 million contract with EOST Technologies, Inc. to have the Tucson-based company build a 2.4-meter optical telescope for the research university's soon-to-be-constructed Magdalena Ridge Observatory (MRO), a state-of-the-art astronomical research facility that will be located atop the Magdalena Mountains in south-central New
Mexico. View Entire Article »
Socorro County Residents Set To Vote on G.O. Education Bond
By NMT
In addition to the Presidential, state, and county elections, every voter in Socorro County is going to be faced with yet another important choice on November 2: whether to support much-needed capital improvements at New Mexico Tech, or sit back idly and watch the facilities and infrastructure of this state-supported research university crumble due to lack of funding. View Entire Article »
Domenici Honored with Named Endowment at NMT
By George Zamora
U.S. Senator Pete Domenici is being honored by New Mexico Tech by having a permanent endowment fund established in his name at the state-supported research university. View Entire Article »
NM Tech Grad Student to Attend Nobel Laureates Convention
By George Zamora
New Mexico Tech physics doctoral candidate Catherine Clewett recently was invited by the U.S. Department of Energy and the National Science Foundation to join a select delegation of top young researchers who will be attending the 54th Annual Lindau Meeting of Nobel Laureates and Students on June 27-July 2 in Lindau, Germany. View Entire Article »
New Mexico Tech Math Team Garners Honorable Mention
By George Zamora
A mathematical modeling team comprised of New Mexico Tech undergraduates James Hunter, Alex Rand, and Carsten Steinebach recently was awarded an honorable mention in the 20th Annual Mathematical Contest in Modeling. View Entire Article »
NM Tech Student Suffers Minor Injuries in Hailstorm
By Valerie Kimble
Nicholas Sanchez of Socorro was caught in the hail storm that inundated the New Mexico Tech campus Tuesday afternoon. View Entire Article »
New Mexico Tech Garners Software Package Grant from EDS
By George Zamora
The New Mexico Tech Department of Mechanical Engineering and its associated mechatronics program have been named the recipients of a recent grant provided by the Electronic Data Systems Corporation (EDS) which will allow students at the university to employ some of the latest available design and analysis software. 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 »
Safety Training for Miners Funded
By NMT
U.S. Senator Pete Domenici today reported that the New Mexico Institute of Mining Technology in Socorro has been awarded $138,633 from the Department of Labor to conduct safety training for miners throughout New Mexico. View Entire Article »
NM Tech VP Romero Receives Distinguished Public Service Award
By George Zamora
New Mexico Tech Vice President Van Romero has been named one of this year's notable recipients of the 35th annual New Mexico Distinguished Public Service Awards. View Entire Article »
