Tag: University of New Mexico

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NMSU receives 5-year grant from U.S. DOT to establish regional transportation research center

New Mexico State University received a five-year grant and nearly $2.5 million for the 2017 fiscal year from the U.S. Department of Transportation’s University Transportation Centers (UTCs) program to establish a regional transportation research center, the Las Cruces Sun-News reports. The university’s Civil Engineering Department is a member of the Transportation Consortium of South-Central States […]

January 19, 2017

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How DOTs could use drones to assess infrastructure damage from natural disasters

Researchers from the University of New Mexico (UNM), San Diego State University, and BAE Systems are working on a prototype drone system that could be used to detect and map transportation infrastructure damage as a result of natural disasters. The benefit is the speed at which these machines can reach a disaster area, which many […]

March 31, 2015

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Construction workers discover time capsule … from the 90s

Discovering a piece of history has to be a great thrill. And construction workers building a new math lab at the University of New Mexico got to experience that thrill last week when they knocked out a wall of the school’s library and found a time capsule. Well, sort of a thrill. This time capsule […]

December 18, 2012