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 »
Tech President Lopez Chairman of Sec. of Higher Education Nominating Committee
By George Zamora
New Mexico Tech President Daniel H. L?pez, chairman of a newly formed search committee that is tasked with recommending nominees for New Mexico's first secretary of higher education, today announced that a complete slate of committee members had been appointed by Governor Bill Richardson. View Entire Article »
Groundbreaking Set for ILEA Building
By NMT
A small explosion will break ground on Saturday, Jan. 12, for the $5.4 million International Law Enforcement Academy building in Roswell. 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 »
New Mexico Earth Science Achievement Awards Announced
By NMT
On January 28, 2005, the New Mexico Earth Science Achievement Awards will be presented to State Senator Carlos R. Cisneros (District 6) and to Dr. John W. Hawley of Albuquerque. These awards are co-sponsored by the New Mexico Bureau of Geology and Mineral Resources, a division of New Mexico Tech. View Entire Article »
ILEA-Roswell Groundbreaking Held
By NMT
U.S. Senator Pete Domenici kicked off this morning with a bang at the groundbreaking of a new facility to host more training classes at the International Law Enforcement Academy (ILEA) in Roswell. View Entire Article »
NM Tech Buildings Evacuated as Result of Chemical Spill
By George Zamora
Seven campus buildings at New Mexico Tech were evacuated Monday evening, March 21, as a result of an accidental chemical spill inside of the research university's Jones Hall. View Entire Article »
NM TECH MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP HONORS THE LATE VICTOR SARACINI
By George Zamora
A memorial scholarship fund in honor of the late Victor J. Saracini has been established at New Mexico Tech in Socorro. Saracini, a 1976 graduate of New Mexico Tech, was the captain of United Airlines flight 175, which was overtaken by terrorist hijackers on September 11, 2001, and crashed into one of the towers of the World Trade Center in New York City. View Entire Article »
NM Tech and NM State Sign Agreement on Playas Facility
By Jack Swickard
Dr. Daniel H. L?pez, president of New Mexico Tech, and Dr. Michael V. Martin, president of New Mexico State University, signed a Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) for the recently opened Playas Research and Training Center on Monday, January 31, at the Governor's Office of Homeland Security in Santa Fe. 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 »
Audubon Masterpiece at NM Tech Made More User-Friendly
By John Bertrand
A pair of key references at New Mexico Tech's Joseph R. Skeen Library for birders and naturalists have just become more user-friendly with a document donated by the Friends of the Bosque del Apache NWR. The books are also stunning works of beauty for the general public. View Entire Article »
New Mexico Tech Revises Strategic Agreement with SAIC
By George Zamora
Top officials from New Mexico Tech and Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) recently signed off on a revision and extension of a strategic agreement forged in 2003 between the public university and the private company to continue jointly pursuing research and educational opportunities in new and expanding areas of mutual interest. View Entire Article »
NMT Signs Agreement with Honors Center of Italian Universities
By Enrique R. Vivoni
In a recent visit to Rome, New Mexico Tech President Dr. Daniel L?pez signed an agreement with the Honors Center of Italian Universities (HCU) for research and educational exchanges. The agreement opens the door for enhanced collaborations between New Mexico Tech faculty and students and counterparts in a number of Italian research entities. View Entire Article »
NMT Receives $2.3 Million Contract
By NMT
U.S. Senator Pete Domenici announced that the New Mexico Institute of Mining Technology has been awarded a contract worth $17.8 million from the Department of Energy (DOE) to support efforts to remove greenhouse gases from plant emissions. 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 »
New Mexico Tech Names New VP of Student-University Relations
By George Zamora
Ricardo Maestas recently was named vice president for student and university relations at New Mexico Tech. Prior to assuming his new position, he served as associate vice president for student services at the University of New Mexico. View Entire Article »
New Mexico Tech Math Faculty and Students Attend MathFest
By George Zamora
Several faculty and students from the New Mexico Tech Department of Mathematics recently gave technical presentations on their current research at the Mathematical Association of America's annual "MathFest" national convention, which was held earlier this month in the Albuquerque Convention Center. View Entire Article »
New Faculty Members Join NMT
By Shawna Carter
New Mexico Tech recently announced the hiring of nine new faculty members for the start of 2005 fall semester at the research university. View Entire Article »
U.S News & World Report Ranks New Mexico Tech
By George Zamora
New Mexico Tech has again been included among the 64 universities that make up the third tier grouping in the "Best National Universities" category in the latest annual rankings published by U.S.News & World Report. View Entire Article »
New Mexico Tech Named One of Princeton Review's Best Colleges
By George Zamora
New Mexico Tech is one of the nation's best institutions for an undergraduate education, according to the recently published 2006 edition of The Princeton Review Guide to the Best 361 Colleges. View Entire Article »
New Mexico Tech Implements First-Year Computer Boot Camp
By Dr. Mike Topliff
New Mexico Tech has initiated a new "Computer Boot Camp" program for entering freshmen this fall semester that may be the first of its type available at any university in the nation. View Entire Article »
New Mexico Tech Professor Compiles Book on Dalton's Poetry
By George Zamora
Rafael Lara-Martinez, foreign languages professor at New Mexico Tech, is the compiler and editor of a recently published collection of poetry by the late Salvadoran poet and activist Roque Dalton (1935-1975). View Entire Article »
Taber of PRRC Granted New Patent
By Liz Bustamante
The appearance of US Patent Number 6,905,504 on June 14, 2005, "Method of Converting Feed Water to Fresh Water," marked a special occasion at the PRRC, representing the culmination of several years of research and study by Dr. Joseph J. Taber, PRRC Director Emeritus. View Entire Article »
New Mexico Tech Professor Publishes Book on Jewish Struggle
By Shawna Carter
New Mexico Tech history professor Alexander Prusin recently had his book, Nationalizing a Borderland: War, Ethnicity, and Anti-Jewish Violence in East Galicia, 1914-1920, published by the University of Alabama Press. View Entire Article »
NM Tech Children's Center Endowment Fund off to Great Start
By George Zamora
A newly established endowment fund at New Mexico Tech is off to a great start after recently garnering two major contributions to kick off the fundraising campaign for the university's on-campus child care facility. View Entire Article »
NMT Student Dies in Roll-Over Car Accident
By George Zamora
New Mexico Tech sophomore Robert Jones died Saturday morning, October 1, of injuries sustained in a single-car rollover accident which occurred about four miles north of Socorro. He was en route to his home in Los Lunas when the accident occurred. 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 to Install New Hot Water System
By Shawna Carter
The New Mexico Tech Facilities Management Department (FMD) has announced that the Phase I preliminary installation of a new hot water system for the entire campus will begin on Monday, October 10. 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 »
Minor earthquake felt near Socorro
By George Zamora
A minor earthquake occurred this past Saturday night, October 29, near Socorro, measuring at magnitude 2.4 at 8:57 p.m. View Entire Article »
New Mexico Tech and Missouri State sign teaming agreement
By George Zamora
Officials from New Mexico Tech and Missouri State University signed off last week on a teaming agreement in hopes of establishing a variety of science and technology programs of mutual interest at the two universities, including the expansion of several training programs for first responders. View Entire Article »
NMT's PRRC Receives DOE Research Grant
By Shawna Carter
New Mexico Tech's Petroleum Recovery Research Center (PRRC) was recently awarded a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) research grant to assist in the creation of a database system that compiles accumulated data from northwestern New Mexico's San Juan Basin gas and oil wells. View Entire Article »
New Mexico Tech Student Dies in Motorcycle Accident
By George Zamora
New Mexico Tech sophomore Alex T. Randolph died Monday evening, November 14, of injuries sustained when the motorcycle he was driving collided with a cow elk on State Highway 12, south of Datil, N.M. Randolph was a Datil resident. View Entire Article »
NM Tech Professor Garners DOE Research Grant
By George Zamora
New Mexico Tech mechanical engineering professor Sayavur Bakhtiyarov is the latest researcher at the state-supported research university to be awarded a major U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) research grant. View Entire Article »
Elias Hernandez Named Affirmative Action Director at NM Tech
By George Zamora
Elias M. Hernandez has been named director of New Mexico Tech's Office for Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action. View Entire Article »
Hispanic Outlook Magazine Lists NM Tech as a Publisher's Pick
By George Zamora
The latest edition of Hispanic Outlook in Higher Education magazine has listed New Mexico Tech among its 2005 "Publisher's Picks List," the national magazine's annual listing of colleges and universities in the U.S.A. and Puerto Rico that "are doing a commendable job of recruiting, retaining, educating, and graduating Hispanics." View Entire Article »
Texas Explosives Company to Use EMRTC Testing Facility
By Shawna Carter
Nanotechnologies Inc., an Austin-based explosives company, is spinning off a sister company, Nanoenergetics Inc., which will use the Energetic Materials Research Testing Center (EMRTC) at New Mexico Tech as its main testing facility for new explosive technologies the company hopes to develop and market. View Entire Article »
