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Tuesday, November 24, 2009 3:43 p.m.

News

Journal of Biological Chemistry

Researchers Begin to Decipher Metabolism of Sexual Assault Drug

It’s a naturally occurring brain chemical with an unwieldy name: 4-hydroxybutyrate (4-HB). Taken by mouth, it can be abused or used as a date-rape drug.Now, a team of Ohio and . . . [read more]

Hands-on science is exciting.

Youth Programs Helps Science Score Big with Young People

Michigan Technological University took its traveling STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) Road Show to Grand Rapids last week, inspiring thousands of elementary and high-school students to “score with science” . . . [read more]

Sampling ethnic cuisine at the International Food Festival

Many Nations Break Bread at International Food Festival

International students and faculty members joined dozens of guests from Michigan Tech and the community for an evening of ethnic food and music at the Memorial Union Ballroom on Saturday . . . [read more]

5
Dec
Rozsa Center for the Performing Arts
7:30 p.m.

Handel's "Messiah"

Get in the Christmas spirit! World-class soloists join the MTU Concert Choir and Keweenaw Symphony Orchestra to perform Handel's beloved . . .

9
Dec
Rozsa Center for the Performing Arts
5:00 p.m.

60 Min of Service: Holiday Decorating at Omega House

Come out and spread some holiday cheer at Omega House (www.omega-house.org)! Contact communityservice@mtu.edu to sign up!

11
Dec
Rozsa Center for the Performing Arts
7:30 p.m.

Squonk Opera

This site-specific opera is about the one subject that unifies the audience wherever they perform - the host town itself! . . .

Hockey Continues Season at Mankato

11/24/09—Michigan Tech will play a pair of WCHA games at Minnesota State this weekend (Nov. 27-28). The game will . . . [read more]

Molesworth Picked as Inaugural GLIAC Player of the Week for 2009-10

11/23/09—BAY CITY, Mich. — Tyler Molesworth (Mesa, Ariz./Mountain View) of the Michigan Tech men's basketball team has been named Great . . . [read more]

Wysocky Named GLIAC North Player of the Week

11/23/09—BAY CITY, Mich. — Michigan Tech women's basketball player Katie Wysocky (Whitefish Bay, Wis.) has earned the Great Lakes Intercollegiate . . . [read more]

Spotlight

Elijah Haines

Elijah Haines

Social Sciences

Second-year social sciences major Elijah Haines is many things—aspiring lawyer, outdoors enthusiast, art aficionado, wannabe world traveler.

Luckily for the Michigan Tech community, he's also a writer. Haines' essays—weekly staples in the University's student newspaper, the Lode—focus on issues big and small, from gay rights to great meals.

"I used to think writing had to be novels and fiction," Haines said. "But writing about real life can be just as creative."

Spotlight

Joel Neves

Joel Neves

Assistant Professor of Music

Activities

Director of Orchestras
Music Director of KSO

If our new orchestra director's iPod is any clue, then the campus and community are in for a great mix of music.

"Tower of Power; Beatles; Berlin Philharmonic; Led Zeppelin; Earth, Wind and Fire; New York Philharmonic; Herb Albert and the Tijuana Brass; Chicago Symphony; and Karen Carpenter," says Joel Neves, the newly appointed director of the Keweenaw Symphony Orchestra.

Neves comes to Michigan Tech from Cedar City, Utah, where he directed jazz and music theater at . . .

Spotlight

Donieka Walker

Donieka Walker

Psychology

If Donieka Walker, who is a senior majoring in psychology, could fix the world, she'd start by ensuring "mental stability for everyone."

"If your mental state is at an all-time high," she says, "nothing else can get you down."

Walker knows what she's talking about. "My family, we were at the bottom of the bottom," she recalls about tough times in her native Dayton, Ohio. "It was a time to be depressed or sad or angry. But we kept each other encouraged. We kept our mental state healthy. We were motivated. Thinking logically. Staying mentally satisfied."

Spotlight

Julia King

Julia King

Professor, Chemical Engineering

Expertise

PhD, Thermally and electrically conductive resins and composites

Chemical engineering Professor Julie King uses plastic to make composites that behave a bit like metals.

Plastics are everywhere, and there's a good reason why. Light and typically inexpensive, they can be engineered to do almost anything. However, there are a couple things plastics don't do well: transfer heat and conduct electricity.

Often that's not a problem. But in some applications it is. The bipolar plates at the heart of fuel cells, for example, must be electrically and thermally conductive.

Spotlight

Audrey Mayer

Audrey Mayer

Assistant Professor
Sustainability Science and Policy

Expertise

PhD, ecology and environmental biology

Associate Professor Audrey Mayer has an abiding dream and duty: rearrange the way we live to be more efficient; use the bounty of the Earth's ecosystems without destroying them; live in a way that what we do doesn't harm others. In a word, she seeks sustainability—socially, environmentally, and economically.

Mayer has worked in academia and for the Environmental Protection Agency. She started out small: studying California's gnat catcher and Florida's cape sable seaside sparrow. She ended up expansive: devoting herself to what she calls "my silo"—global sustainability.

Spotlight

Amber Roth

Amber Roth

PhD, SFRES

Conservation could be Amber Roth's middle name. She loves anything to do with nature. Birds, trees, grasses, ecosystems: she's fascinated by it all.

So after tucking a Bachelor of Science in Conservation Biology and International Relations and a Master of Science in Wildlife Ecology under her belt, the Green Bay native came to Michigan Tech to earn a PhD in the School of Forest Resources and Environmental Science (SFRES).

Roth studies how to manage aspen forests to produce the maximum . . .

Campus Blogs

Lauren: Student Abroad

Lauren: Student Abroad—Being able to handle difficult situations can help you through tough times. Join Lauren this week in A Student Abroad as she discusses how her wallet got stolen, her first exam at school, and her trip to Ireland...[read blog]

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