NM Tech's Skeen Library Hosts Lecture and Exhibit Series
By Shawna Carter
Teddy Draper, a World War II (WWII) Navajo Code Talker is scheduled to speak on Saturday, August 20, at 2 p.m. at New Mexico Tech's Joseph R. Skeen Library Tripp Conference Room. View Entire Article »
The Amazing Randi to Speak
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 »
Taber Honored
By George Zamora
Joseph J. Taber, director emeritus of New Mexico Tech's Petroleum Recovery Research Center (PRRC), recently was honored at an afternoon get-together at the PRRC in recognition of his having been granted a U.S. patent last month for a novel method he developed of converting feedwater into freshwater. View Entire Article »
Socorro Student Achieves Perfect Score on National ACT Exam
By George Zamora
David DeVries, a Socorro student who is concurrently enrolled at both Socorro High School and New Mexico Tech, was the only college-bound student in the state and one of only 32 nationwide to achieve a perfect composite score of 36 on the April 2005 national test administration of the ACT college-entrance exam. View Entire Article »
NM Tech Professors Co-Author Chapters in Rio Chagres Book
By George Zamora
A hydrologist and geologist at New Mexico Tech are co-authors of several chapters included in a newly published book that focuses on one of the most important and complex tropical rainforest regions in the world?the greater Panama Canal Watershed. View Entire Article »
CRONUS-Earth Project Seeks To Improve Accuracy of Geo-Dating
By George Zamora
A New Mexico Tech geoscientist who developed an accurate method of dating geological landforms by measuring localized accumulations of radioactive elements on the Earth's surface is now spearheading a national effort to improve the accuracy and reliability of the widespread applications of these types of geochronology methods. View Entire Article »
NM Tech Distance Education Program Implements New Software
By Shawna Carter
The New Mexico Tech Distance Education program recently purchased and implemented a new software program called "Breeze," which makes communications between instructors and students, well, a breeze. View Entire Article »
CSI: Socorro
By NMT
High school students enrolled at New Mexico Tech this summer in the university's "CSI: Socorro" Mini Course, as part of the weeklong course, conducted their own forensic investigations?gathering evidence and running trace DNA analyses on diagnostic equipment provided by New Mexico Tech's biology department. View Entire Article »