Outreach

MichiganTech Youth Programs takes science on the road to Grand Rapids.

The public is invited to drop by between 5 and 8:30 p.m. to see raptors up close and talk with experts.

Alex Guth, PhD student, online lecturer and Kenyan geology researcher, was tapped as an expert for a National Geographic television show airing next spring.

Michigan Tech has received nearly $200,000 from the Michigan Department of Education for a professional development program for grades 5-12 physics and chemistry teachers.

Michigan Tech is one of five universities nationwide selected to receive a 2009 Ford College Community Challenge grant. The funding will enable undergraduates to work with community groups and schools to help winterize homes of elderly residents of the community. 

The Family Engineering program helps families work together to discover what engineering is, how to solve engineering problems and inspire some youngsters to pursue education and careers in engineering.

MentorNet links students and young teachers with professionals for career guidance.  

A group of Grand Rapids middle-school science teachers are spending this week at Michigan Tech, finding ways to make earth science more engaging for students.

IBM is opening a Global Rail Innovation Center in Beijing, China, and the company has tapped Michigan Tech as one of only two university partners. The other is MIT.

Scientists should take a stand in the environmental policy debate.

Africa is dotted with monuments to what doesn't work. Terry Woychowski wanted to build something that would.

Two Michigan Tech deans have been appointed to serve on the Great Lakes Wind Council.

CN, one of the largest railroads in North America, today announced it has donated $250,000 to Michigan Technological University's Rail Transportation Program to create the CN Rail Transportation Education Center (CN RTEC).

Michigan Tech has awarded scholarships for summer programs to three Detroit-area high school students for their entries in the Science and Engineering Fair of Metropolitan Detroit.

Girls from across the UP and northern Wisconsin will gather at Michigan Tech Saturday, April 4 for a day of hands-on science activities.

Bad economic times can be good times for entrepreneurs, says Michigan Tech alumnus Kanwal Rekhi.

Michigan Tech is betting on the future of rail transportation by establishing a Rail Transportation Program within the Michigan Tech Transportation Institute.

Michigan Tech is partnering with GM and the Engineering Society of Detroit to retrain displaced automotive engineeers

Michigan Tech has been selected as the university partner for half of Michigan's Centers of Energy Excellence.

15,000 kids had fun with science Nov. 7.

YES! Expo reveals the excitement of science and engineering to middle and high-school students.

Speakers' Forum Oct. 24, Powwow Oct. 25

Michigan Tech alumnus and campaign chair Dave House has pledged $10 million to the University's national campaign

Michigan Tech receives federal Economic Development Administration grant to renovate UPPCO building in downtown Houghton.

"Banker to the Poor, 3 p.m., Dow 641; "Your Future: Michigan Tech and Beyond," 6 p.m., Rozsa Center

Michigan Tech Professors are appointed to Robbins Chairs in Sustainability; 7 new faculty members are hired in Strategic Faculty Hiring Initiative.

Michigan Tech will be hosting approximately 300 prospective students on Saturday, Sept. 27

Michigan Tech and North Carolina State will partner with Finnish and Swedish universities to offer transatlantic dual graduate degrees.

Michigan Tech entomologist confirms infestation of ash-killing insect.

Two ambitious Detroit teens find summer adventure at Michigan Tech.

Courtesy of the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality

IBM has named Michigan Tech to its selective IBM Partnership Executive Program for Universities.

A high school Enterprise modeled after Michigan Tech's successful Enterprise program is building a yurt in Calumet.

General Motors and Michigan Tech are helping each other prepare electrical and computer engineers.

Explorations, Women in Engineering, Explorations in Engineering, American Indian Workshop, Women in Computer Science

Statistical genetics group develops software to find genetic causes of disease

A three-person team—two of them freshmen—from Clarkson University won the internal combustion division of the SAE Clean Snowmobile Challenge.

First-time-team Northern Illinois makes its mark

The sled from the University of Wisconsin-Madison kept going and going and going.

Clarkson, Kettering, Northern Illinois, UW-Platteville

President's higher education budget testimony focuses on STEM degrees.

SAE Challenge at Michigan Tech March 10–15

A better way to measure noise

Michigan Tech and Michigan State have joined forces to work to help develop the renewable fuel industry in Michigan. At a joint public seminar in Escanaba, Swedish representatives will describe how one city stopped relying on fossil fuels.

Its aim: to encourage presidential debate on science and technology

2008: the year of biofuel

A report indicates that the Upper Peninsula's unique identity could be changing as commercial forest ownership changes hands.

GE Aviation of Grand Rapids, Mich., is expanding its University Development Center in Houghton, a partnership with Michigan Tech.

Michigan Technological University and Michigan State University are teaming up to support the developing renewable biofuels industry in Michigan.

Science and engineering are cool, and so is Michigan Tech

Thousands of Detroit-area middle- and high-school students will travel to their own potential future at the fourth annual YES! Expo at Ford Field November 8, 2007.

Wood to Wheels Research a Key Factor

John Vucetich leads opposition to US Interior Department ruling.

Governor Jennifer Granholm’s residence in Lansing will be brightened by a dramatic specimen of native Keweenaw copper.

President Glenn Mroz told Senate Subcommittee on Higher Education why Michigan Tech is a key player in the economic development of the state.

Michigan Tech President Glenn Mroz to testify.

To support sustainability, information technology and entrepreneurship

University of Sonora president to be honored at Spring Commencement

UIdaho back on top after three years in the trenches.

Becomes area's first Silver sponsor

Anti-icing coating prevents accidents

The Little Huskies Child Development Center is expected to open its doors this summer.

Houghton crystal on 2006 holiday stamp

Gladstone native Heather Richards is majoring in pre-med

Engineers designed and built the system, and then the politicians took over . . .

Emmy Award-winner Bill Nye will bring his zany, smart and very accessible brand of science to the Michigan Youth Engineering and Science (YES!) Expo, set for Nov. 2 at Detroit's Ford Field.

An ambitious strategic plan for Michigan Tech was approved Friday, April 28, by the Board of Control.

Badgers credit balance for victory

Funds to support graduate programs in business

The IT Oxygen Enterprise will be developing custom software for nonprofit organizations, thanks to a $1.2 million gift from the Herbert H. and Grace A. Dow Foundation.

“Every effort will be made to accommodate students whose education has been interrupted by this tragedy."