Michigan Technological University

Choose Your Adventure

If building and launching rockets, working in a real medical lab, or heading out on a guided wilderness mountain bike tour sound like super-cool ways to spend the summer, then it's time for you to check out Michigan Tech's Youth Programs. There are more than fifty adventurous, weeklong summer programs to choose from (Mind Trekkers camps for students in grades 6–8; pre-college career and adventure explorations for students in grades 9–11)... so what are you waiting for? Start planning your summer adventure now.

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A Michigan Tech Education Pays Off

Is a college education worth the price? You betcha, according to PayScale.com, a web site that analyzes the costs of a degree and payback in future salary. See comparisons in return on investment at Michigan Tech and more than 800 other colleges and universities.

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Generations of Discovery:
the Campaign for Michigan Tech

Contributions to Michigan Tech help fund many important areas, none more so than our students. They receive financial assistance in the form of scholarships and fellowships, often thanks to alumni and friends of Michigan Tech. Generations of Discovery: the Campaign for Michigan Tech is targeting support for students to ensure they can continue their studies here. All the campaign priorities are on the website.

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Generations of Discovery: The Campaign for Michigan Tech

Clean Water for Everyone

Millions of children die every year in Africa of water-borne diseases. Now a Michigan Tech scientist has developed a cheap, simple way to purify even the muddiest water.

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Archaeologist, Chemical Engineer Unite in a War on Rust

Where there's iron, there's rust, and industrial archaeologist Tim Scarlett is teaming up with chemical engineer Gerard Caneba to devise a way to prevent rust from ruining valuable iron artifacts—from hand tools to water pumps.

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Wednesday, May 23, 2012 12:30 p.m.

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Cantrell, Woods Receive Distinguished Teaching Awards

"Office hours" are an elastic concept for Michigan Technological University's 2012 Distinguished Teaching Award winners."His office is always open," says physics department chair Ravi Pandey of Will Cantrell, . . . [read more]

Durdu Guney, center, has received a 2012 Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Award. Also pictured are Vice President for Research David Reed, left, and Michigan Tech President Glenn Mroz.

Michigan Tech's Durdu Guney Receives ORAU Award

Oak Ridge Associated Universities has selected Durdu Guney of Michigan Technological University to receive a 2012 Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Award.Guney, an assistant professor of . . . [read more]

Transmission electron microscopy image of carbon nitride created by the reaction of carbon dioxide and Li3N.

From Lemons to Lemonade: Reaction Uses Carbon Dioxide to Make Carbon-Based Semiconductor

A materials scientist at Michigan Technological University has discovered a chemical reaction that not only eats up the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide, it also creates something useful. And, by the . . . [read more]

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