Alumni Resources

Sarah Cowie graduated in 1996 with a MS in Industrial Archaeology from Michigan Tech’s Department of Social Sciences. For several years she worked as a professional archaeologist in cultural resource management, and in 2008 earned her PhD in Anthropology from the University of Arizona. She is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology at University of Nevada-Reno, where she specializes . . .

Retired Michigan Technological University Materials Science and Engineering BA 1956, MS 1958, PhD Metallurgy 1962 Graduated with B.A. degree from DePauw University in 1956, M.S. from Indiana University in 1958, and received his PhD in Metallurgy from the University of Pennsylvania in 1962. Became a member of the Michigan Tech faculty in 1961, and was named department chair of metallurgical engineering in January 1978. . . .

A Farm Boy Grows Up to Grow Biofuels Randy Cortright pursues a prospect that is both well-grounded and lofty: clean, carbon-neutral energy to supplant fossil fuels that are expensive, not easily available anymore, and dirty. Cortright founded and leads Virent Energy Systems, of Madison, Wisconsin. The firm is on the cusp of new technology as it develops methods to convert sugars quickly and efficiently into conventional, . . .