High School Students To Star at Summer Science Program
By Richard Bowdon
Applications are now open for the 2007 Summer Science Program (SSP), a six week residential enrichment program for gifted high school students. View Entire Article »
New Mexico Tech Regents Give Emeritus Status to Longtime Prof
By NMT
The New Mexico Tech Board of Regents, convening for its last regular monthly meeting of 2006, conferred emeritus status on longtime humanities professor Carole Z. Yee, who is retiring after 30 years of service at the state-supported research university in Socorro. View Entire Article »
Underground Mine Map Initiative Catalogs Old Mine Maps
By Jane Love and L. Greer Price
The New Mexico Bureau of Geology and Mineral Resources is asking New Mexicans who possess old maps or who are aware of old map collections to contact Maureen Wilks, Geological Librarian at NMBGMR, as part of a project to to complete the cataloging and scanning of historic coal mine maps of New Mexico. View Entire Article »
Things That Go Boom in the Middle of the Night
By NMT
If you happen to hear a ?boom? tonight, don?t be alarmed: It?s only New Mexico Tech?s Energetic Materials Research and Testing Center (EMRTC) conducting a special nighttime explosives test for KOB-TV?s 10 p.m. live broadcast of ?Eyewitness News? on Channel 4. View Entire Article »
Lecture Focuses on Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence
By NMT
Ever wanted to have a conversation with ET? The head of the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence program (SETI) speaks at New Mexico Tech on Monday, Nov. 20 on the prospects for doing exactly that. View Entire Article »
Southwest Border Security Consortium Will Serve as National Resource
By NMT
New Mexico Tech was one of nine research universities in Southwest border states that have announced the formation of the Southwest Border Security Consortium, an alliance that will develop and promote scientific and policy solutions to issues affecting the U.S.-Mexico border region. View Entire Article »
National Cave and Karst Research Institute Director Named
By NMT
George Veni recently was named the new executive director of the National Cave and Karst Research Institute (NCKRI) in Carlsbad. View Entire Article »
NM Tech Faculty Member Receives Distinguished Service Award
By Fred Phillips
New Mexico Tech adjunct faculty member John W. Hawley recently received the 2006 Distinguished Service Award from the Quaternary Geology & Geomorphology Division of the Geological Society of America. View Entire Article »
NMT Receives $67 Million Grant from DOE
By Hannah Vanderbush
Oct. 27, 2006 ? U.S. Senator Pete Domenici announced today that the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology (N.M. Tech) has received $67,000,000 over the next ten years from the Department of Energy (DOE) to conduct research into greenhouse gas emissions. View Entire Article »
NM Tech's Eye on the Universe: Magdalena Ridge Observatory
By George Zamora
A new state-of-the-art optical observatory located atop New Mexico?s Magdalena Mountains will soon be used to produce some of the most detailed data ever obtained of nearby asteroids, as well as of the far reaches of the Universe. View Entire Article »
NM Tech's Magdalena Ridge Observatory to Officially Open
By George Zamora
New Mexico Tech?s new $50 million optical observatory and astronomy research facility will be officially opened on Thursday, October 26, with an afternoon ribbon-cutting ceremony atop the 10,800-foot-high Magdalena Mountains. View Entire Article »
New Mexico Tech involved in international study on summer monsoons
By George Zamora
New Mexico Tech is collaborating with the University of Sonora in Mexico on the North American Monsoon Study (NAMS), an ongoing international research project that will collect more scientific data on the intense summer rainstorms that often occur throughout the American Southwest and northern Mexico. View Entire Article »
TWO Gates Millennium Scholars at New Mexico Tech
By George Zamora
Most small universities would be rightfully proud of having just one Gates Millennium Scholar among their student body, but New Mexico Tech is now in the enviable position of having two such named students on campus. View Entire Article »
Socorro Springs Brewing To Sponsor Annual Golf Tournament
By George Zamora
A major professional golf tournament that has been held in June on the New Mexico Tech Golf Course for more than 45 years has found a new corporate sponsor?Socorro Springs Brewing Company. View Entire Article »
New Mexico Tech again Listed in Kiplinger's Top 100
By George Zamora
New Mexico Tech has again been listed among the nation's top 100 best values in public colleges and universities, according to rankings published in the current issue of Kiplinger's Personal Finance magazine. View Entire Article »
NM Tech Computer Science Program Receives Intel Equipment
By Shawna Carter
New Mexico Tech computer science professor Xiao Qin and his research partner Dongwan Shin recently received cutting-edge research and educational equipment from Intel that will be used in the university's computer labs and classes. View Entire Article »
NMT Professors "Tune In" to Teaching about Metals
By George Zamora
Two New Mexico Tech materials engineering professors have developed a tuneful method of teaching students about the physical properties of different metals by using custom-made sets of tuning forks machined from various alloys. View Entire Article »
NM Bureau of Geology Releases Book on Mining in NM
By Shawna Carter
The New Mexico Bureau of Geology and Mineral Resources has recently published Mining in New Mexico: the Environment, Water, Economics, and Sustainable Development, produced in conjunction with the fourth Decision-Makers Field Conference that was held in Taos in May of 2005. View Entire Article »
Bureau Publication Wins AESE Award
By Shawna Carter
The Association of Earth Science Editors (AESE) recently presented the New Mexico Bureau of Geology and Mineral Resources with an Outstanding Publication Award in the electronic publications category for the Bureau's Bulletin 160, "Tectonics, geochronology, and volcanism in the Southern Rocky Mountains and Rio Grande rift." View Entire Article »
International Expert on Adaptive Optics Joins New Mexico Tech
By George Zamora
An internationally renowned expert on adaptive optics and directed energy research has joined the research ranks of New Mexico Tech. View Entire Article »
NM Tech Undergrads Win Second Place in Mug Dropping Contest
By Shawna Carter
Clumsy coffee drinkers take note: New Mexico Tech undergraduates Matt Burr, Will Guenley, and Jonathan Smith were awarded second place in the American Ceramic Society's Ceramic Mug Drop Contest, which recently was held at the society's annual meeting in Cocoa Beach, Fla. View Entire Article »
Science Olympiad 2006 Results
By George Zamora
Two teams from Albuquerque took home an abundance of Olympic?style medals and won top honors in the high school and middle school divisions at the 20th annual New Mexico Science Olympiad, which was held on Saturday, February 25, on the New Mexico Tech campus. View Entire Article »
New Center at New Mexico Tech Focused on Student Learning
By Valerie Kimble
Improving the quality of the student learning experience is the primary goal of New Mexico Tech's new Center for Innovative Teaching and Learning (CITL). View Entire Article »
NMT Alumni Start Successful Networking Company
By Shawna Carter
Former New Mexico Tech students Jon Hill and Joshua Link teamed together to start up iniCom Networks Inc., a computer-networking company now based in Albuquerque, whose focus is on network software development and technology within the legal industry. View Entire Article »
NMT Enters into Agreement for ROTC Program
By George Zamora
New Mexico Tech has entered into a "cross-town" enrollment agreement that makes the Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) program available to students attending the state-supported research university in Socorro. View Entire Article »
NMT Listed as "Best Value" in Princeton Review
By George Zamora
New Mexico Tech is one of the nation's "best value" undergraduate institutions, according to the Princeton Review. View Entire Article »
NMT Student recognized by STC
By Julie Ford
Jennifer Bracken, a junior majoring in Technical Communication at New Mexico Tech, has won a Student Achievement Award from the Kachina New Mexico Chapter of the Society for Technical Communication. View Entire Article »
NMT Students to Join Cross-Border Technology Program
By George Zamora
A design team comprised of three to four New Mexico Tech undergraduates will soon be formed to participate in a cross-border technology development program sponsored by the National Science Foundation, which seeks to develop an interdisciplinary approach to educating scientists and technology managers in New Mexico and the neighboring Mexican state of Chihuahua. View Entire Article »
NMT and Naval Postgrad School Sign Agreement
By George Zamora
New Mexico Tech and the U.S. Naval Postgraduate School have entered into an Educational and Research Partnership Agreement designed to enhance education opportunities and to encourage joint research and development projects at both institutions of higher education. View Entire Article »
NM Team Gets Honorable Mention in Math Modeling Contest
By George Zamora
A mathematical modeling team comprised of New Mexico Tech undergraduates John Korbin, Craig Nicholas, and Tim Trujillo recently earned an "honorable mention" certificate in the 22nd Annual Mathematical Contest in Modeling (MCM). View Entire Article »
New Mexico Tech Strengthens Research Ties to Chinese Entities
By George Zamora
New Mexico Tech President Daniel H. L?pez and one of his top university administrators recently were in China, working to strengthen ongoing research collaborations between the research university and PetroChina Company Limited, the largest oil and gas company in the People's Republic of China. View Entire Article »
Tech Student Develops Science Curriculum for Children
By Shawna Carter
April Hoy, a native of Santa Fe and a graduate student enrolled in New Mexico Tech's Master of Science Teaching (MST) program, has developed several innovative teaching techniques to help teach young inclusion classroom students science concepts, keeping them interested in science. View Entire Article »
New Mexico Tech Distance Education Hosts Behavioral Health WebCast
By Eric Jurist and Iver Davidson, NMT DE
At the request of the state Human Services Department, New Mexico Tech's Distance Education (DE) department hosted a live statewide webcast of a meeting of the New Mexico Behavioral Health Collaborative on April 28 in the university's Joseph R. Skeen Library. View Entire Article »
New Mexico Tech Land Donors Monument Dedicated
By George Zamora and Kathy Hedges
The year was 1889, and with a deadline of August 18 fast approaching, the citizens of Socorro needed to act. They needed a tract of land which could be deeded over to the Territory of New Mexico, as the location of the future School of Mines... View Entire Article »
New Mexico Tech Student Nominated for Biehl Award
By Shawna Carter
New Mexico Tech student Ronadel Ronquillo was recently nominated for the Amy Biehl Youth Spirit Award, a prestigious service award founded in 1993 to recognize New Mexico's young volunteers. View Entire Article »
NM Tech Team Participates in Prestigious Math Competition
By Shawna Carter
New Mexico Tech students Scott Cason, Michael Iverson, Craig Nicholas and Timothy Trujillo recently participated in the 66th annual William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition, a prestigious intercollegiate contest held among colleges and universities from throughout the United States and Canada. View Entire Article »
LANL Foundation Awards Scholarships to NMT Students
By Sallie Boorman
New Mexico Tech undergraduates Katharine Dahm and Sydney Ryan were recently named recipients of one-year $1,000 "Turquoise Scholarships" from the Los Alamos Employees' Scholarship Fund. View Entire Article »
NM Tech Students Participate in ASCE Bridge-Building Contest
By Shawna Carter
New Mexico Tech students Joshua Fleming, Clifton Lee, Trevor Self, William Shuter, Bryan Mitchell, and Katheryn Stapleton recently participated as the first team from New Mexico Tech to enter in the American Society of Civil Engineers' (ASCE) annual bridge-building contest. View Entire Article »
New Mexico Tech is Key Member in Energy Research Partnership
By George Zamora
The U.S. Department of Energy has announced the selection of a New Mexico Tech-led consortium to receive a ten-year contract to administer a nearly $500 million research program designed to develop technologies to make extraction of ultra-deepwater oil and gas resources, as well as unconventional onshore gas resources, economically viable. View Entire Article »
New Mexico Tech Alumnus Finances New Investment Club
By George Zamora
A New Mexico Tech alumnus has donated $100,000 to the university to establish the Pat Miller Investment Group, an on-campus investment club that will allow Tech students the opportunity to make real-world financial investments in hopes of developing a self-sustaining diversified portfolio of stocks, bonds, mutual funds, and money market securities. View Entire Article »
N M Tech President Testifies before Congressional Committee
By George Zamora
New Mexico Tech President Daniel H. L?pez testified in Washington this morning (Wednesday, June 14) before the U.S. House of Representatives' Committee on Resources at a Congressional hearing being held to consider H.R. 4761, the Domestic Energy Production through Offshore Exploration and Equitable Treatment of State Holdings Act of 2006. View Entire Article »
Summer Science Program now underway at NM Tech
By Summer Science Program
Three dozen of the world's top high school science students from 15 states and three foreign countries have converged on the New Mexico Tech campus for the Summer Science Program (SSP). View Entire Article »
N M Tech Collaborates with Pueblos on IT Education/Training
By George Zamora
New Mexico Tech and Santa Fe Indian School are collaborating on a new education and training program that will provide students, teachers, and mentors at several of northern New Mexico's pueblos with practical experiences using geographic positioning systems, mathematical modeling, and computer technology to help solve environmental problems the various Native American communities are facing. View Entire Article »
New Mexico Tech Hosts International Conference on Zeolites
By George Zamora
Almost 200 geoscientists from around the world are expected to soon converge on the New Mexico Tech campus to attend a weeklong international scientific meeting that will focus on the occurrence, properties and uses of zeolites, a naturally occurring, highly porous minerals that are commonly used for various agricultural, medical, environmental, and industrial applications. View Entire Article »
Phillips Co-Authors Paper in Science
By George Zamora
New Mexico Tech hydrology professor Fred M. Phillips is the co-author of a research paper published in a recent issue of the prestigious journal Science. View Entire Article »
Wilson Elected AGU Section President
By George Zamora
New Mexico Tech hydrology professor John L. Wilson II recently was elected president of the Hydrology Section of the American Geophysical Union (AGU), and, as such, is currently serving a term as president-elect for two years, which will be followed by another two-year stint as president of the largest division of the AGU. View Entire Article »
Xiao Named Office of Naval Research Young Scientist
By George Zamora
Hai Xiao, an assistant professor of electrical engineering at New Mexico Tech, recently was selected as an Office of Naval Research Young Investigator. View Entire Article »
N M Tech Research Division Given High-Tech Laser System
By George Zamora
New Mexico Tech's Energetic Materials Research and Testing Center (EMRTC) is the new owner of a $4.5 million specialized laser unit that allows the research division to cut and form energetic and non-energetic materials with powerful, ultra-short pulses of energy that last only a few hundred femto-seconds. View Entire Article »
Memorial Service Planned for NM Tech Student
By NMT
The New Mexico Tech Board of Regents, meeting in an emergency telephone conference this morning, has approved the posthumous granting of a bachelor of science degree in physics by the university to the late David Cady, 25. Cady, an undergraduate student at New Mexico Tech, died August 5 of a single gunshot wound sustained in an off-campus shooting incident. View Entire Article »
New Mexico Tech Student is on Sailing Crew for Adventure Film
By George Zamora
Kate Theisen, a New Mexico Tech undergraduate has been selected as one of 15 crew members that will make up a world-class yacht-racing team for Roy E. Disney's upcoming "Morning Light" film project. View Entire Article »
New Faculty Members Hired at New Mexico Tech
By Shawna Carter
New Mexico Tech recently announced the hiring of three new faculty members for the start of 2006 Fall semester at the state-supported science and research university in Socorro. 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 »
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 »
Bush Signs Funding Bill, including NMT projects
By NMT
U.S. Senator Pete Domenici today reported that President Bush has signed into law the FY2007 Defense Appropriations Bill, a $436.6 billion spending package that includes at least $61 million added by the Senator to support military projects in New Mexico. 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 »
Unwrapping Cramer Hall
By Kathy Hedges
SOCORRO, N.M., Oct. 11, 2006 ? The newly renovated Cramer Hall on New Mexico Tech?s campus will undergo its official ?unwrapping? in a ceremony at 10 a.m. on Thursday, Oct. 19. The public and the Tech community are invited to the event, which will feature refreshments and tours of the new building. View Entire Article »
NM Tech Researchers Develop Nanomaterial Bio-sensor
By George Zamora
SOCORRO, N.M., Oct. 11, 2006 ? New Mexico Tech researchers have developed a highly sensitive nucleotide sensor that uses the special light-emitting properties of some nanoparticles in analyzing and identifying individual components of single strands of DNA and RNA. View Entire Article »
Seed Money for New Children's Center Donated
By Kathy Hedges
SOCORRO, N.M., Oct. 11, 2006 ? New Mexico Tech is in the early stages of planning a new Children?s Center, thanks to planning money donated by Bill Macey, a longtime benefactor of the university and member of the Class of 1942. Plans call for the center to be named after Macey?s late wife, Jean Macey. View Entire Article »
Astrobiology Lecture Series Coming
By Kathy Hedges
A series of free public lectures related to astrobiology is set for coming weeks on the New Mexico Tech campus, hosted by the class Astrobiology 489/589. Guest lecturers will present a series of talks on the search for life beyond the Earth. View Entire Article »
NMT Undergraduate Team Secures $10,000 EPA Grant
By Valerie Kimble
A team of New Mexico Tech undergraduates is designing a mirror-based system to help generate energy. They are also building a prototype system, thanks to a recent $10,000 grant from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). View Entire Article »
Javorsky Endowed Scholarship in Materials and Metallurgical Engineering Founded
By Kathy Hedges
Charles A. Javorsky, a retired metallurgist from Los Alamos National Laboratory, has endowed an undergraduate scholarship at New Mexico Tech for a student in the field of Materials and Metallurgical Engineering. View Entire Article »
U.S.News & World Report Ranks New Mexico Tech in Third Tier
By George Zamora
New Mexico Tech has again been included among the more than 60 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 again ranked as one of the nation's best institutions for an undergraduate education, according to the recently published 2007 edition of The Princeton Review Guide to the Best 361 Colleges. View Entire Article »
