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When Michigan Technological University launched its Generations of Discovery capital campaign in 2006, announcing a goal of $200 million, there were some doubters. Remember 2006—when the housing bubble burst and ...

Michigan Technological University is launching two major initiatives aimed at improving student success and providing faculty with new tools for enhancing student learning.

Both efforts are made possible through generous gifts ...

Four Michigan Technological University graduate engineering programs rose in the latest US News & World Report graduate school rankings, released today. 

Chemical engineering’s graduate program moved up to 60th ...

Michigan Technological University recently received a $100,000 gift from the General Motors Foundation, a long-time University supporter. 

The gift will fund a variety of student activities. Among them are the ...

Yun Hang Hu has been named the Charles and Carroll McArthur Professor in Michigan Technological University’s Department of Materials Science and Engineering.

Hu is an excellent choice for the post, said ...

The Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Michigan Technological University has announced the creation of the Dennis Wiitanen Professorship in Electric Power Systems.

The professorship, which is funded by ...

When Dallas Smolarek started working in the DENSO Design Center at the Keweenaw Research Center, she was afraid to use a wrench. 

Sixteen months later, the mechanical engineering major is ...

James and Dolores Trethewey have established a new endowed professorship in Michigan Technological University’s School of Business and Economics.

With a $1.16 million gift commitment, the couple is underwriting the James ...

“A great program finally has an appropriate and wonderful home,” says Darrell Radson, dean of the School of Business and Economics at Michigan Technological University. He is talking about the ...

One of Michigan Technological University’s most generous benefactors and his wife, Franklin and Lorraine St. John, have recently established a $1 million charitable trust to support the Generations of Discovery ...

The new Paul and Susan Williams Center for Computer Systems Research will soon provide a space where Michigan Tech’s computer scientists and engineers can put their heads together.

Equipment and furnishings ...

Michigan Technological University has established a new fellowship program for graduate students who have served in the Peace Corps, AmeriCorps or the military. So far, the University has awarded 10 ...

Michigan Technological University’s Physics Department sees itself poised on the brink of greatness.  Richard and Elizabeth Henes agree.  Longtime and generous supporters of Michigan Tech, the couple has donated another ...

Michigan Technological University is kicking off the public phase of a $200 million multi-year fund-raising campaign, President Glenn Mroz announced tonight.  And appropriately enough on its 125th anniversary, Michigan Tech ...

Three faculty members in the Department of Mechanical Engineering-Engineering Mechanics are recipients of new endowed associate professorships at Michigan Technological University.  ME-EM alumni John Calder and Ron Starr and their ...