New Mexico Tech

10/09/2026

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Fall is the perfect time to enjoy the outdoors, and New Mexico Tech's campus offers a beautiful setting to do just that. Study and enjoy the peaceful scenery and perfect seasonal temperatures.

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10/09/2026

Meet the Planetary Defenders! Check out the short documentary, “Planetary Defenders: This Is Not an Exercise,” streaming on NASA+ featuring research done at the New Mexico Tech/ Magdalena Ridge Observatory’s 2.4m Telescope 🔭 It highlights the campaign to observe potentially hazardous asteroid 2024 YR4 last year ☄️. The research work of Drs. Bill and Eileen Ryan to assess the risk of impact is featured 🙌.

Read more about this fascinating project: https://www.nmt.edu/news/2026/new-mexico-tech-astronomers-team-up-with-nasa-to-create-a-network-of-space-defenders-against-city-killer-asteroids.php

See the full documentary here: https://plus.nasa.gov/video/planetary-defenders-this-is-not-an-exercise/

10/08/2026

Passing the line to someone who knows every Tech tradition by heart. 🖼️✨

This year 49ers is a curated celebration of discovery and tradition. Come see what’s on display.

Now it’s your turn 👇
Comment your favorite 49ers memory 💬
Tag the alum you’re dragging back to campus! 🏷️
Share this with your class group chat! 📲

📍Socorro, NM
🗓️October 15-18

Details and RSVP on the NMT Alumni Community platform.
www.nmt.edu/alumni-affairs/49ers.php

10/08/2026

SocorroFest is this Friday and Saturday!

Oct. 9th Starting at 5 PM
Oct. 10th Starting at noon

Join the community at the Socorro Historic Plaza, Capitol Bar & Brewery, and Box Canyon Brewing Co. Three stages. Free live music.

Saturday headliners are Almost Folsom at 6 PM and Gonzalo at 8 PM. Local favorite Big River Band kicks off Friday night on the plaza.

There will also be food trucks, art vendors, a kids’ corner, jump balloons, and the Free State of Socorro Passport Booth

Free for all ages. Bring your people!

10/08/2026

10/07/2026

It’s kinda chic 49ers edition. 💙

Come home to Socorro for 49ers, October 15 to the 18! Bring your friends and family!

Now it’s your turn! Finish the sentence in the comments: “Kinda chic to ____ at 49ers.” Tag your old lab partner and tell them they owe you a reunion!

Full schedule out on the NMT Alumni Community platform and here: www.nmt.edu/alumni-affairs/49ers.php

10/06/2026

Congratulations to the Middle Rio Grande Economic Development Association (MRGEDA) on earning state certification as a Certified Economic Development Organization from Economic Development New Mexico (EDNM) in honor of its leadership strengthening economic development across the state’s Middle Rio Grande region!

New Mexico Tech is proud to be an MRGEDA partner. Dr Haoying Wang, Chair of our Department of Business and Technology Management, serves as MRGEDA Board Chairman.
Pictured left to right: Dr Haoying Wang, NMT/MRGEDA Board Chairman; Kirstin Keller, MRGEDA Executive Director; and Victoria Archuleta, Senior Economic Developer, Village of Los Lunas/MRGEDA Board Member.

Based in Socorro and serving Valencia, Socorro, Sierra and Catron Counties, the organization joins a statewide network of Certified Economic Development Organizations (EDO) that partner with the EDNM to create jobs, support businesses and prepare communities for future growth.

Middle Rio Grande Economic Development Association

10/05/2026

Meet Aurelia Vargas, a fourth-year mineral engineering student at NMT. She is fresh off a trip to Washington D.C. where she represented NMT at the Department of Energy (DOE) Roundtable on Critical Minerals Workforce. She had the opportunity to join President Mike Jackson and Dr. Navid Mojtabai, a Mineral Engineering professor, for meetings at the Eisenhower Executive Building and the Department of State.

She even had the chance to speak at an event ahead of the roundtable and meet Secretary of Interior Doug Burgum. In her words: “Truthfully, I haven’t experienced anything like this trip. It was surreal at times to be surrounded by the people I was, and to be in the buildings that we were in. It felt like a very significant place to be.”

She left with real insight into where the industry is headed, from national mineral stockpiling for energy security to conversations with CEOs from companies like Peabody and Freeport about how they’re investing in mining education.

Her advice for the next generation of Techies chasing opportunities like this one is: “Pursue every branch of your interests to the fullest extent you can.”

But hear about her experience for yourself as she talks about the high points of her experience.

10/02/2026

Get ready for some stooooories… 😎

It's almost that time of the year again! Come share your favorite Techie stories during the annual StorySlam at the Cap, or listen to your classmates and fellow alumni share theirs. Weird, funny, impressive, or silly - we want to hear all your stories! Sign up to attend or tell a story here: https://connect.alumni.nmt.edu/g/2026-storyslam

10/02/2026

New Mexico Tech has been awarded $3.3M from the New Mexico Energy, Minerals and Natural Resources Department’s Grid Modernization Program to build a smart microgrid demonstration and training platform.

Led by Dr. Qingsong Cui in the Department of Electrical Engineering, the project brings together advanced sensing, AI, and power systems in order to strengthen grid resilience. It is supported by the Department of Computer Science and Engineering and two New Mexico Tech research centers: the Petroleum Recovery Research Center (PRRC) and the Institute for Complex Additive Systems Analysis (ICASA). It will be based at the Playas Research and Training Center.

Students, professionals, and partners will be able to get hands-on experience with modern grid technology.

For more information, check out our story: www.nmt.edu/news/2026/new-mexico-tech-awarded-m-for-smart-microgrid-demonstration-and-training.php