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Saturday, November 7, 2009 1:55 p.m.

News

Wind power - part of the next generation of energy

Strategic Faculty Hiring Initiatives Seek Energy, Health Faculty

A worldwide search is on for outstanding energy and health researchers to fill up to 20 new tenure-track faculty positions at Michigan Technological University. The competitions are Michigan Tech’s latest . . . [read more]

Michigan Tech Peace Corps Master's International well-building project in Mali.

Michigan Tech, Portage Health Offer Medical Discount to Peace Corps Students

Graduate students in Michigan Technological University’s Peace Corps Master’s International programs will be able to get their required medical exams and lab tests at a major discount, thanks to a . . . [read more]

Aspen Institute honors the School of Business and Economics

Michigan Tech MBA Honored Again by Aspen Institute

Michigan Technological University’s School of Business and Economics MBA program has been honored by the Aspen Institute’s 2009-10 edition of Beyond Grey Pinstripes, a biennial survey and alternative ranking of . . . [read more]

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Nov
Memorial Union Building Ballroom
10:00 p.m.

SACS Comedian: Bobby Miyamoto

Bobby Miyamoto has mad appearances on Comedy Center, CBS' The Late Show with Craig Ferguson and ABC's Comics Unleashed. He . . .

12
Nov
McArdle Theatre
7:30 p.m.

Tech Theatre Company: "Vaster Than Empires"

SciFi stories land at Tech in this evening of Ursula LeGuin. Showtimes start at 7:30 p.m. on November 12, 13, . . .

12
Nov
Rozsa Center for the Performing Arts
7:30 p.m.

Hot Peas 'N Butter

Winners of the "Parent's Choice Award," Hot Peas 'N Butter is a unique children's musical group that incorporates elements of . . .

North Dakota Scores 4-2 Victory Over Michigan Tech Hockey

11/06/09—No. 3 North Dakota scored three power play goals to claim a 4-2 victory over Michigan Tech in WCHA play . . . [read more]

Volleyball Wins Dog Fight in Big Rapids

11/06/09—The Michigan Tech volleyball team improved to 7-3 in fifth-set matches after defeating Ferris State in a special Friday (Nov. . . . [read more]

Tech's No. 1 Preseason Ranking Unanimous with Top Spot in WBCA Poll

11/04/09—LILBURN, Ga. — The Michigan Tech women's basketball team will be a unanimous national preseason No. 1 when it opens . . . [read more]

Spotlight

Smriti Dahal

Smriti Dahal

MS, Environmental Policy

Nepal is home to eight of the world's highest mountains, and one alumna from this rooftop of the world has some pretty lofty ideas.

Smriti Dahal graduated in August 2007 with a master's degree in environmental policy. Her research took her back to her native Nepal, where she studied a group of women in Gundu, a village eight miles southeast of Kathmandu.

The women were managing a small woodlot used by the entire community-and they were asserting themselves in a country hidebound by male dominance and . . .

Spotlight

Ravi Pandey

Ravi Pandey

Professor and Department Chair

Expertise

PhD, Theoretical Solid State Physics

Ravi Pandey was trying to determine if nanotubes would work as taxis to deliver chemotherapy drugs to tumors. Then he discovered something quirky about DNA that could revolutionize gene-sequencing technology.

Chemotherapy is a tried-and-true cancer therapy, but for many patients, the drugs are so toxic that the cure is worse than the disease. So, rather than dosing the entire person with healing poisons, scientists want to shuttle those drugs directly to the tumor, with carbon nanotubes serving as the shuttle.

First, however, they want . . .

Spotlight

Kris Bartell

Kris Bartell

Computer Engineering

Kris Bartell believes in traveling. "The world is a diverse and amazing place," he says. Experiencing it firsthand will change the way you see it and the way you live."

Kris knows what he's talking about. During his time at Michigan Tech, the fourth-year electrical engineering major has traveled to Bolivia with the University's Engineers Without Borders group and worked with a Tech professor to develop and implement a water filtration system for an impoverished Bolivian community.

He also participated in a study-abroad program in Australia, an experience . . .

Spotlight

John O. Hallquist

John O. Hallquist

PhD, Mechanical Engineering —Engineering Mechanics

President and Founder of Lawrence Software Technology Corporation

John Hallquist earned his B.S. in Industrial Engineering, magna cum laude, from Western Michigan University in 1970. He received an M.S. degree in Engineering Mechanics from Michigan Tech in 1972. He continued his advanced education from Michigan Tech and earned a Ph.D. degree in Mechanical Engineering and Engineering Mechanics in 1974. John joined the weapons laboratory at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) after receiving his degrees from Michigan Tech. During the next fifteen years he worked on mathematical models that predict the effectiveness of bombs.

Spotlight

Marcella Campione

Marcella Campione

Forestry

Marcella "Marcie" Campione may have grown up in a suburb of Chicago, but she's always heard the call of the wild.

"My family used to take long vacations in national parks," says Marcie, a fourth-year forestry major at Michigan Tech. "I love the outdoors, and I've always wanted to do something to help the environment."

So she came to Michigan Tech to study forestry, and she's planning to stay on to earn a Master's degree in silviculture, a branch of forestry focusing on the development and care of forests.

Spotlight

Mary Ann Beckwith

Mary Ann Beckwith

Professor of Art

Expertise

Watercolor

The teacher in Mary Ann Beckwith emerges as she works in her sun-lit studio on a sunny, chilly December day. The award-winning watercolor artist discusses technique and Tech students.

"The students are bright, motivated, and willing to try most of the things I teach," she says. "Once they learn that failure is sometimes the result in a creative project and that they can make the next results better, they soar."

The professor of art has won the Distinguished Teaching Award at Michigan Tech, and her paintings have garnered acclaim across the nation.

Campus Blogs

Lauren: Student Abroad

Lauren: Student Abroad—A break from school is a great time to catch up on any projects and to relax. Join Lauren this week in A Student Abroad as she attends a concert, dresses up for a Halloween party, and continues to experience the London lifestyle...[read blog]

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