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NM Tech students Isleen Ontiveros, left, and DawnMonique Cantu discuss the new contact-tracing MinerSafe app Friday morning on the university campus. (Courtesy of NM Tech)
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. New Mexico Tech in Socorro is arming its students, staff and faculty with an ubiquitous contact-tracing app to rapidly prevent coronavirus outbreaks if anyone on campus tests positive.
Once downloaded and turned on, the app traces every step taken by the user while on campus, allowing system managers to immediately determine each individual’s proximity and duration of time near an infected person so that those exposed can rapidly get tested and isolate themselves.
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VIDEO: Videos of test detonations at Sandia National Laboratories of thin explosive films, about as thick as a few pieces of notebook paper. view more
Credit: Sandia National Laboratories
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. Using thin films no more than a few pieces of notebook paper thick of a common explosive chemical, researchers from Sandia National Laboratories studied how small-scale explosions start and grow. Sandia is the only lab in the U.S. that can make such detonatable thin films.
These experiments advanced fundamental knowledge of detonations. The data were also used to improve a Sandia-developed computer-modeling program used by universities, private companies and the Department of Defense to simulate how large-scale detonations initiate and propagate.
Monadnock Ledger-Transcript
Published: 2/17/2021 5:05:45 PM
The one message that stuck with Jim Guy ever since he was a young boy growing up in Cleveland, Ohio was the importance of getting an education.
His parents grew up in the 1920s, and life as Black people coming of age was anything but easy.
“They were subject to severe racial discrimination,” Guy said of his parents James and Josephine.
Yet they persevered, with James eventually beating the odds and becoming a doctor, and he wanted his only son to know that it would take hard work – “twice as much as a white man,” Guy remembers his father telling him all the way back to when he was in second grade. That was the path he needed to follow to a bright future.
Dr. Sheetz in the classroom.
Kraig Sheetz, Ph.D., has been tapped to serve as executive vice president of Mount St. Mary’s University.
Since becoming dean of the university’s School of Natural Science and Mathematics in 2018, Sheetz has overseen tremendous growth in the school with the introduction of neuroscience and data science undergraduate majors and an interdisciplinary Master of Science degree and certificate in applied behavior analysis. The school also has received major grants to broaden undergraduate research opportunities and provide transfer pathways for community college students in STEM programs. In addition, Sheetz has introduced a dean’s speaker series and encouraged student success, leading to four prestigious Barry M. Goldwater Scholarships in the past two years and numerous National Security scholars.