New Mexico Tech Awarded "Best Collegiate Blood Drive"
By George Zamora
United Blood Services of New Mexico recently announced that New Mexico Tech is this year's recipient of the regional blood service organization's "Best Collegiate Blood Drive Award." View Entire Article »
NM Tech Professors Co-Author New Textbook
By George Zamora
Three New Mexico Tech professors are the authors of two graduate-level textbooks which were recently published by Elsevier, an internationally renowned, multiple-media publisher of scientific, technical and health information products and services. View Entire Article »
NMT Doctoral Candidate Wins Costa Rica's Top Science Award
By George Zamora
Esteban Araya, a doctoral candidate in the astrophysics program at New Mexico Tech, has been named this year's recipient of his native country's top science award. Araya recently was informed by Costa Rica's Ministry of Science and Technology that he had been chosen to receive the Dr. Clodomiro Picado Twight National Award in Science. View Entire Article »
LANL Announces Scholarship to Summer Science Program at NMT
By NMT
Los Alamos National Laboratory has announced that it will make full scholarships available to New Mexico high school students who wish to attend the Summer Science Program at New Mexico Tech. View Entire Article »
New Mexico's Top "Intelletes" Vie for Science Olympiad Gold
By George Zamora
More than 800 student "intelletes" representing 25 middle schools and 25 high schools from throughout the state will tax their scientific knowledge?as well as their motor skills?in 45 spirited academic contests at the 19th Annual New Mexico Science Olympiad on Saturday, February 26, on the New Mexico Tech campus. View Entire Article »
NMT Participants in Mt. Taylor Quadrathlon
By NMT
Congratulations to the intrepid New Mexico Tech faculty members who participated in the Mt. Taylor Quadrathlon on Feb. 19, 2005. View Entire Article »
The Rio Grande Rift: A Continent "Stretched Like Taffy"
By Karl Hill
Using a vast array of seismic instruments reaching nearly 600 miles across the desert Southwest, scientists from New Mexico, Texas and Arizona have produced the most detailed images yet of the geology up to hundreds of miles beneath the Rio Grande Rift. View Entire Article »
Albuquerque Academy Intelletes Win State Science Olympiad
By George Zamora
Two teams from the Albuquerque Academy took home an abundance of Olympic-style medals and once again won top honors in both the high school and middle school divisions at the 19th annual New Mexico Science Olympiad, which was held on Saturday, February 26, on the New Mexico Tech campus. View Entire Article »
C. B. Moore Elected AGU Fellow
By George Zamora
Charles B. "Charlie" Moore, a professor emeritus of atmospheric physics at New Mexico Tech, has been elected as a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union (AGU). View Entire Article »
Michaella Gorospe Appointed Student Regent at NM Tech
By George Zamora
Michaella J. Gorospe, a junior majoring in environmental engineering at New Mexico Tech, recently was appointed by Governor Bill Richardson to fill the position of student regent at the state-supported research university in Socorro. View Entire Article »
Geochronology Lab Dates 4.5 Million-Year-Old Hominid Fossils
By George Zamora
A recent article published in the prestigious science journal Nature that reports on new Early Pliocene hominid discoveries in Gona, Ethiopia, has a strong connection to a research lab based in Socorro, New Mexico. View Entire Article »
El Paso RFC in 14-5 Victory over Pygmies
By Dave Wheelock
Moral victory can be a double-edged sword. On the one hand, it lends encouragement in the face of defeat. Coming close can also become a habit, though, which condemns a sporting team to always finishing second. New Mexico Tech's rugby Pygmies could have celebrated their courageous performance following Saturday's (Feb. 19, 2005) hard-fought 14-5 home loss to the El Paso Scorpions, but the lads were having none of that. View Entire Article »
