Too good to be true?

icuinNm
Sun, 05 Jan 2014 22:11:14 +0000

My DH attended New Mexico Tech back in the late 70s and early 80s where he double-majored in Math and Psychology. While most students chose the school because they wanted to be engineers, DH chose it because he liked those subjects and wanted the challenge.

Anyway, while there, he studied under a psych professor named Dr. Frank Etscorn. DH assisted Dr. Etscorn in clinical trials using rats and mice. Dr. Etscorn invented the Nicotine Patch while he taught at NM Tech. He discovered the idea after a freak accident in the lab where he accidentally spilled nicotine on his skin which afterward made him feel sick. This happened in '80 or '81 and the patch was patented by him a few years later. He retire in the 90s and is now a multi-millionaire.

DH always talked about him as this amazing professor that he learned so much from and who took DH under his wing. They stayed in a contact on and off for 10 years after DH graduated. I just wanted to share that bit of trivia about one of NM Tech’s past professors which is something the school is proud of, in addition to it being a top-notch hidden gem engineering school.