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History through Katie Bauer, NMT Communications | May 19, 2022
New Mexico Tech announced the awards for the 2021-2022 educational year at the rite of launch on Saturday, May 14 at the Socorro Rodeo and Sports Complex. The most sensible recipients of student scholarships are: Tucker Diamond-Ames, Brown Award; Catherine House and Isaiah Jojola, Cramer Prize; Daniel P. Jensen, Langmuir Prize; and Kyle Stark, Founders Award.
Tucker Diamond-Ames – Brown Award
The Brown Award is named in honor of M. C. T. Brown, who for many years was a member of the Board of Technology Regents. It is awarded to the member of elegance who, in the opinion of the faculty, occupies the highest place in and leadership. The prize consists of a plaque and a $1,000 prize. The winner of the 2022 Brown Prize is Tucker Diamond-Ames, a senior graduate who majored in biology.
Diamond-Ames, of Taos, came to New Mexico Tech after graduating from Capitan High School in 2018. He has been involved in a large number of community-oriented and studio-based activities over the past four years. Diamond-Ames’ involvement in the studies began in her first year when she joined Dr. Brown’s drug discovery group. Snezna Rogelj. Soon after, and until the beginning, he worked on cancer studies, which concerned mouse brain surgery, histopathology and extensive animal care. Although only a sophomore, Diamond-Ames spent his first college summer as an intern at the IDeA National Institutes of Health Networks of Biomedical Research Excellence (INBRE) with biochemist Dr. Erik Yukl at New Mexico State University.
When COVID-19 began, Diamond-Ames jumped to the front line with technical staff who were in a position to help with COVID-19 testing to help keep the university and the entire Relief network safe. This further strengthened his determination to seek a doctor. career, with a strong focus on global physical fitness, preventive medicine and the full popularity of the importance of intellectual fitness in general.
As a proactive member of the Tech Pre-Med Club and the Student Mental Health Subcommittee, he has helped his club’s president, Faith Meza, organize many educational occasions that have benefited the body, mind, and soul of only club members, but of the entire generation community. These activities included cpR and Narcan education to teach other Tech Pre-Med Club members and students from another generation.
Diamond-Ames recently switched from Relief General Hospital to an emergency room job. He is expected to continue in this position over the next year while applying to medical school. He recently received the Shortess Award, the highest honor from the Department of Biology:
Catherine’s House – Cramer Prize
The Cramer Awards were created to honor Tom Cramer, engineer and member of the Board of Technology Regents for 26 years. They are awarded to two engineering graduates who rank first in the scholarships. Each winner receives a certificate and a cash prize of $400.
The first winner of the Cramer Prize is Catherine House, a senior graduate of the Department of Chemical Engineering, with a major in Chemistry. She is from Albuquerque.
House worked as a laboratory assistant for 4 years in NMT’s Materials Engineering Department under the direction of Dr. John McCoy in epoxide engineering studies funded through Sandia National Labs. He also interned at the Nevada Department of Gold Mining Metallurgy and the Idaho National Laboratory. A Macey fellow, treasurer of the NMT student bankruptcy house of the American Institute of Chemical Engineering and the Tau Beta Pi Engineering Honors Society.
House has been described as a reliable, fantastic and wonderful student, volunteering her time to mentor chemical engineering students. He has participated in several undergraduate study experiments and presented his paintings nationally at the student poster session, winning first place in the AIChE. Meetings in fall 2020 and spring 2021. House will attend graduate school this fall at the University of Pennsylvania.
Isaiah Jojola – Cramer Award
The winner of the 2022 Cramer Award is Isaiah Jojola, a civil engineer graduated from Isleta Pueblo. He is one of seven members of new Mexico Tech’s American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) wildlife crossing bridge design team that competed at a national festival in Houston, Texas, this spring opposed groups from Texas, Oklahoma and Mexico. They built a 1:10 metal-scale wildlife bridge, learning about task management, deadlines, budget constraints, and presentation skills along the way.
Jojola received this year’s ASCE Outstanding Senior Award. He accepted a position at Wilson and Company, Inc. , engineers and architects in Albuquerque, New Mexico. His instructor at CE (Civil Engineering) 423, Open Channel Hydraulics, said the exams were the most comprehensive and professionally presented student papers he has noticed in 20 years of training on the course.
Each year, New Mexico Tech presents two awards for graduate scholars: the Langmuir Award and the Founder’s Award.
Originally from Farmington, Jensen is one of many other amazing people who have worked at Langmuir Lab, reading lightning with his advisor, Dr. Richard Sonnenfeld. Jensen earned a Bachelor of Science degree from New Mexico Tech in 2016 in Physics and Mathematics and is pursuing a Ph. D. in physical instrumentation. Since September 2021, she has served as a graduate studies assistant at Los Alamos National Laboratory as part of a three-year joint internship between New Mexico Tech and LANL.
Dr. Sonnenfeld nominated Jensen for his study work, “Dart-Leader and K-Leader Velocity From Initiation Site to Termination Time-Resolved With 3-d Interferometry,” which was published in the Journal of Geophysical Research in March 2021.
Jensen used knowledge from two interferometers collected during a thunderstorm near Langmuir Lab to produce a three-dimensional interferometer knowledgeset, the most accurate verified result to date for a broadband ray interferometer. The knowledge also showed that some lightning processes in clouds (K-leaders) slow down as they go for miles, and it’s not imaginable without this technology.
Jensen has been described by Dr. Sonnenfeld as an “extraordinary young scientist” who has produced remarkable studies in the development of this incredibly complex herbal phenomenon that is becoming increasingly common and impactful with climate change.
Kyle Stark – Founders Award
The Founders Award honors those guilty of founding the New Mexico School of Mines in Socorro in 1889. It is awarded to the graduate of a graduate degree who is considered to have made a notable contribution to the Institute through scholarships, studies, and participation in campus affairs. The prize consists of a plaque and a bag of $800. The winner of the 2022 Cramer Award is Kyle Stark.
Stark, a local of Berryville, Virginia, earned his bachelor’s degree from the University of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia. He earned his master’s and doctoral degrees in hydrology from New Mexico Tech. Their studies focused on continuous water monitoring. and sediment flow during flash floods at a measuring station he built in the Arroyo de los Pinos, which drains the Quebradas component, across the Rio Grande from Socorro. This effort included collaborators from the U. S. Office of Recovery. Ben-Gurion University in Israel, GFZ-Potsdam in Germany, the U. S. Geological Survey. In the U. S. , the Bureau of Land Management and local landowners.
According to his advisor, Dr. Daniel Cadol, Stark was indispensable in this task and mentored other academics who took care of the task and did “thoughtful, detailed, and artistic research. “Additionally, during his time at New Mexico Tech, Stark served as president of the Graduate Student Association for two years and served as a mentor to GSA leaders. He has been described as someone who has a “service mentality. “
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