Academics

Students in the School of Business and Economics in the Elevator Pitch Competition come up with new business ideas.

An old mine is discovered under the construction site of the Seaman Mineral Museum.

But will anyone believe them?

Emily Jensen of Saginaw, a fifth-year student at Michigan Technological University, was studying chemistry when she decided to become a high school science and math teacher. She Emily was able to switch majors because of Michigan Tech’s Noyce Scholarship Program, which uses federal stimulus funds to increase the number and quality of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) teachers in the state.

The National Research Council (NRC) of the National Academies today released a comparison of more than 5,000 doctoral programs at 212 universities across the nation, including Michigan Technological University.  The assessment of graduate programs  rated 12 PhD programs at Michigan Tech, giving highest marks to two in the School of Forest Resources and Environmental Science: forest molecular genetics and biotechnology and forest science.

A clinical lab science student's limerick is published in the The Clinical Chemistry Journal.

Humanities Professor Patty Sotirin's research explores aunts' roles in raising nieces and nephews.

Federal stimulus funding to Merit Network, a nonprofit corporation owned and governed by Michigan’s public universities, will bring more and better broadband Internet service to Michigan Tech and communities throughout the Upper Peninsula. 

Earned high marks for the use of nontraditional materials

Michigan Tech has moved up in the latest US News and World Report annual "Best Colleges" undergraduate rankings.