NMT Rugby Club Opens 1-2 in Santa Fe Tournament
By Dave Wheelock
New Mexico Tech's Rugby Club gave a mixed performance in opening their 2005-2006 campaign, recording one win against two losses at the 34th annual Santa Fe Ten-man team tournament over the Labor Day weekend. The Pygmies finished third in the collegiate division by defeating New Mexico State University's Chiles in their third match. View Entire Article »
Endowment to Honor Victor Saracini
By NMT
New Mexico Tech alumni are vigorously raising funds to honor the memory of Victor Saracini, a 1976 graduate of the university who was one of the many killed in the attacks of September 11, 2001. View Entire Article »
NM Tech President Lopez Named to Power Broker Alumni List
By NMT
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 2007POWER Book. View Entire Article »
Hirschfeld Wins Best Paper Award
By George Zamora
New Mexico Tech materials engineering professor Deidre Hirschfeld is a co-author of a research paper that received a "best paper award" at the 2006 International Thermal Spray Conference & Exposition, which was held earlier this year in Seattle, Wash. View Entire Article »
Notes from the Sept. 26, 2006 Regents Meeting
By George Zamora
The New Mexico Tech Board of Regents was informed at its monthly meeting on Sept. 26 that this fall semester's student enrollment at the state-supported research university is showing a less than one percent decrease over last year's record enrollment figure of slightly more than 1,900 undergraduates and graduate students. View Entire Article »
Miners Win One, Lose One in Durango
By Coach Paul Fuierer
On September 16, the NMT Miners men's soccer team achieved their first on-the-road victory in four tries over an always skilled Ft. Lewis College (Durango, CO) club team with a score of 2-1. Their only other win over Ft. Lewis came last October at home in Socorro, with an identical score. View Entire Article »
New Mexico Tech Partners into Adaptive Optics Commercialization
By George Zamora
While "adaptive optics" isn't yet a household word, most people would be surprised to discover just how much of a major role the burgeoning technology is expected to soon play in common applications and products such as high-speed communications, high-powered lasers, chemical analyzers, and imaging systems. View Entire Article »
Donation by Peabody Energy
By George Zamora
Peabody Energy, the world's largest private-sector coal company, recently donated $20,000 to the research university in Socorro. View Entire Article »
NM Tech Scientists Study Remote Sensing of Evapotranspiration in Mountain Areas
By George Zamora
Over the course of the last two decades, hydrologists and other scientists have used emerging technologies such as satellite optical remote sensing to develop and refine several operational evapotranspiration (ET) algorithms that are now routinely used in hydrological studies in New Mexico and worldwide. View Entire Article »
Pygmies Fall to Brujos; Fledgling Queens Host Scrimmage
By Dave Wheelock
The New Mexico Tech Pygmies fell short in their home match on Saturday, Sept. 23, with the Brujos Rugby Football Club of Albuquerque, losing 19-11. Prior to the one o' clock men's game, seven new members of the resurgent Pygmy Queens RFC mixed in with Atomic Sisters Women's Rugby Club from Albuquerque in a women's rugby clinic and scrimmage. View Entire Article »