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Honors Institute Gets a Home to Call Its Own

Thu, 03 Oct 2013 11:35:52 -0700

Housing and Residential Life at Michigan Technological University has rolled out the welcome mat for 13 students at a very special residence hall.

The Honors House, building number 82 on the campus map and formerly the Ruppe House, is a next-door neighbor of the University Residence on Woodland Road. The headquarters for Michigan Tech’s Honors Institute, the Honors House is home to nine honors students and provides ample space for the group’s operations. The remaining four beds are filled by non-honors students who have returned to campus after at least one year of study.

The idea of converting the Ruppe House—previously used for . . .

Jaszczak Publishes on Multi-Island Tunneling Devices

Thu, 26 Sep 2013 14:23:53 -0700

Professors John Jaszczak (Physics) and Paul Bergstrom (ECE), with PhD students Madhusudan Savaikar and Douglas Banyai, published a paper, “Simulation of charge transport in multi-island tunneling devices: Application to disordered one-dimensional systems at low and high biases” in the latest issue of Journal of Applied Physics (vol. 114 issue 11).

Transistors Without Semiconductors

Thu, 26 Sep 2013 14:01:23 -0700

Recent work published by Professor Yoke Khin Yap (Physics) on transistors without semiconductors has gained attention at the Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences (CNMS) at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). Yap’s work “Room Temperature Tunneling Behaviors of Boron Nitride Nanotubes Functionalized with Gold Quantum Dots,” first appeared in CNMS Research Highlights, and then later in [...]

Fall Career Fair Features New Companies and Veteran Recruiters

Mon, 23 Sep 2013 07:00:23 -0700

With 264 companies registered for the Fall Career Fair on Tuesday, Sept. 24, their 900 recruiters run the gamut from new to returning to never-miss-a-fair.

Among the new companies, according to Jim Turnquist, director of Career Services, is Chevron. Although they have recruited and hired on their own on campus, this year they’ve joined the Career Fair and expanded their search.

“In the past, they focused on geology, but this year they are looking for many different engineering fields: chemical, civil, electrical, environmental, mechanical,” Turnquist says. “That’s a big plus.”

Back after a hiatus from recruiting is Procter and Gamble. They are scouting for . . .

Generations of Discovery Campaign Meets & Beats Its Goal

Thu, 19 Sep 2013 17:00:09 -0700

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 the stock market was heading for its 2008-09 crash, kicking the country into a major recession?

But Michigan Tech did it—and then some. At a campaign celebration at the University’s Rozsa Center for the Performing Arts on Sept. 19, 2013, Campaign Chair Dave House announced that Michigan Tech has raised $215,366,353, much of it in planned gifts that will be coming in over the next 10 to 25 years.

House, a Michigan Tech . . .

Debasis Datta Inducted into CSA Academy 2013

Wed, 18 Sep 2013 11:47:20 -0700

Dr. Debasis Datta was inducted into Michigan Technological University’s Academy of Sciences and Arts on September 13, 2013. Datta graduated with a PhD in Physics from Michigan Technological University in 1994. His research work at Tech resulted in ten publications in American Physical Review. Following the completion of his postdoctoral work, he started his career [...]

Powering Soft Matter Self-assembly Simulations with GPUs

Mon, 16 Sep 2013 09:52:33 -0700

Physics Colloquium Michigan Technological University Thursday, September 19, 2013 at 4:00 pm Room 139 Fisher Hall Powering Soft Matter Self-assembly Simulations with GPUs Joshua A. Anderson University of Michigan View the PDF Document

Yong Meng Sua Research

Mon, 16 Sep 2013 06:57:46 -0700

Title: Intrinsic Correlations of Quantum Lights in Macroscopic Environments Advisor: Dr. Kim Fook Lee Co-Advisor: Dr. Jacek Borysow Quantum Information Science (QIS) is an up-and-coming field that exploits the peculiar properties of quantum superposition and entanglement by using quantum objects, such as atoms, molecules, photons and phonons. As photons interact weakly with their environment and [...]

Highlight on Arctic Cloud Research by Shaw

Thu, 12 Sep 2013 15:16:41 -0700

“A Minimalist Approach to Modeling Complex Arctic Clouds” was submitted by Dr. Raymond Shaw to Research Highlights in Atmospheric System Research (ASR), US Department of Energy. The highlight is based on the publication Yang F, M Ovchinnikov, and RA Shaw. 2013. “Minimalist model of ice microphysics in mixed-phase stratiform clouds.” Geophysical Research Letters, 40(14), doi:10.1002/grl.50700. The [...]

Female and Graduate Student Enrollment Rises

Thu, 12 Sep 2013 11:27:18 -0700

Michigan Technological University, like other public universities in the state, submitted its official fall enrollment numbers to Lansing this week. The news was very good.

Michigan Tech has 1,252 first-year students, the largest freshman class since 2008. The average ACT score and high school GPA of those students are at an all-time high, at 26.7 and 3.66.

Graduate student numbers also rose for the fifth straight year, to 1,359.

“I want to thank everyone all across campus for the work they do to attract the highest quality students,” said President Glenn Mroz. "The results of their efforts speak for themselves.”

Total undergraduate enrollment . . .