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 »
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 »
Tech Team Successfully Participates in Math Modeling Contest
By George Zamora
A mathematical modeling team comprised of New Mexico Tech undergraduates Jeremiah Gage, T.J. McCormack, and Aaron Wilson recently was awarded a "successful participant" mention in the 21st Annual Mathematical Contest in Modeling (MCM). View Entire Article »
NM Tech Grad Student To Attend Nobel Laureates Convention
By George Zamora
New Mexico Tech astrophysics graduate student Mala Mateen recently was invited by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), the National Science Foundation (NSF), and Oak Ridge Associated Universities (ORAU) to join a select delegation of top young researchers who will be attending the 55th Annual Lindau Meeting of Nobel Laureates and Students on June 26-July 1 in Lindau, Germany. View Entire Article »
NM Tech President L?pez Receives Spirit of Achievement Award
By George Zamora
New Mexico Tech President Daniel H. L?pez was honored at a recent fund-raising dinner and awards ceremony in Albuquerque by being named one of the recipients of this year's prestigious New Mexico Spirit of Achievement Award. 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 »
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 »
Tech Grad Student Garners Best Poster Award at LANL Meeting
By George Zamora
New Mexico Tech graduate student Yang Lu garnered the top award for "best student poster" at the Los Alamos Neutron Science Center User Group Meeting VII, which was held earlier this month in Santa Fe and at the Los Alamos National Laboratory. View Entire Article »
NM Tech President L?pez 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 "power brokers" by New Mexico Business Weekly in its recently published 2006 POWER Book. This marks the fourth 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 »
NM Tech Professor Awarded Prestigious Scientific Award
By Valerie Kimble
Dr. Donald Weinkauf, a New Mexico Tech chemical engineering professor, has been named as one of seven Henry Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award winners for 2005. View Entire Article »
NM Tech Grad Student Wins Best Poster Award at SLICE
By George Zamora
New Mexico Tech doctoral candidate Marty D. Frisbee recently garnered the best poster award at the 1st Slope Intercomparison Experiment (SLICE) Workshop, which was held at the H.J. Andrew Experimental Forest in Blue River, Ore. View Entire Article »
NM Tech undergrad takes second at AMP research competition
By George Zamora
New Mexico Tech student researcher Henry Jauregui earned second place in the oral presentation competition at the New Mexico Alliance for Minority Participation's (AMP) Annual Undergraduate Student Research Conference, which was held recently on the New Mexico State University campus. View Entire Article »
Fred Phillips Receives GSA's Kirk Bryan Award
By George Zamora
New Mexico Tech hydrology professor Fred M. Phillips recently was named the co-recipient of the Geological Society of America's (GSA) 2005 Kirk Bryan Award for Research Excellence. View Entire Article »
N M Tech Student Participates in National Physics Conference
By George Zamora
Leo L. Rodriguez, a senior majoring in physics at New Mexico Tech, recently participated in the 2005 Annual Joint Conference of the National Society of Black Physicists and National Society of Hispanic Physicists (NSBP/NSHP), which was held last month in Orlando, Fla. View Entire Article »
NM Bureau of Geology Staffer Makes Presentation on Research
By George Zamora
Virginia T. "Ginger" McLemore, senior economic geologist at the New Mexico Bureau of Geology and Mineral Resources (NMBGMR), recently gave a technical presentation on her current research at the 39th annual meeting of the South-Central Section of the Geological Society of America (GSA), which was held last week at Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas. View Entire Article »
