Research

Research cracks metabolism code of date rape drug.

Wayne Weaver looks to adapt smart grid technology to smaller electrical networks, from military outposts to a solar-powered home.

The Michigan Legislature’s Joint Capital Outlay Committee meeting in Lansing today authorized Michigan Technological University to seek construction bids for its planned Great Lakes Research Center (GLRC).

Research at Michigan Tech and Michigan State Universities will support development of the state's first cellulosic ethanol plant in the eastern UP.

Moose eat plants; wolves kill moose. Surprisingly, this classic predator-prey interaction makes a major impact on biodiversity.

PhD student Tara Bal uses an unorthodox method to collect leaves from the treetops.

Effort is funded by a $2.8 million grant from the DOE National Energy Technology Lab

Where there are wildfires, there is smoke. And climate change may mean more wildfires and more intense ones. What might that mean for the health of people downwind from the smoke? 

Mike Gibson has spent most of his professional life trying to better understand genetic metabolic disorders that arise in children. With that knowledge, he is working to develop treatments in mice--including liver-cell transplants--that could one day be used to treat a variety of liver-based illnesses in people.

The unintended consequence of crop-based biofuels may be the loss of wildlife habitat, particularly that of the birds who call this country's grasslands home. One solution: Use diverse native prairie plants to produce bioenergy instead of a single agricultural crop like corn.

The process could slash steel-production costs and take advantage of America’s vast coal reserves to reduce dependence on petroleum.

Eight research projects in eight different fields at Michigan Technological University are receiving grants totaling $4,172,719 from the National Science Foundation (NSF).

The discovery does not mean an end to ALS, but it could provide scientists with valuable clues as they search for a cure. It can’t come any too soon. Zhang started showing symptoms of the disease himself four years ago.

Michigan Tech has hired seven new faculty members in six different departments to conduct research in computational discovery and innovation. It is the University's second Strategic Faculty Hiring Initiative.

GM has given three hybrid vehicles to Michigan Tech for research and education.

Research team led by physics chair Ravindra Pandey models the ultimate tiny transistor

In a special Tech Talk during Alumni Reunion 2009, Research Professor Rolf Peterson shared tales and videos of 50 years of wolf-moose research at Isle Royale National Park. 

With $900,000 from the USDA and the DOE, Victor Busov hopes to develop varieties of poplar trees that will thrive in dry, nitrogen-poor soils. Ultimately, they could be grown sustainably as a biofuel crop on lands that aren't suitable for food production.

Anti-icing material developed at Michigan Tech applied on campus walkways.

Michigan Tech has signed an educational and research partnership agreement with the US Army Corps of Engineers Environmental Laboratory in Vicksburg, Miss.

Michigan Tech Exercise Science researcher receives federal stimulus funding from the National Institutes of Health(NIH).

Physicists challenge conventional wisdom about the size and speed of raindrops.

The Midwest Center of the National Institute for Climate Change Research, based at Michigan Tech, has awarded $1.5 million in research grants.

The seeds of a lowly weed could cut jet fuel's cradle-to-grave carbon emissions by 84 percent.

Michigan Technological University has received $164,521 in federal economic stimulus monies to conduct medical research.

Grant enables Michigan Tech to partner with Grand Rapids Public Schools to design a science teaching model.

The wolves on Isle Royale are suffering from gentically deformed bones, and scientists from Michigan Tech blame extreme inbreeding.

A scientist from Michigan is digging up the past in Utah. The 19th century pottery he unearths will be displayed at the Iron Mission State Park Museum in Cedar City.

More research is needed to improve the safety and fuel economy of the nation's truck fleet, a Michigan Technological University faculty member told a congressional subcommittee Tuesday.

Tyler Erickson, a research scientist at the Michigan Tech Research Institute in Ann Arbor, has been named one of five scientists worldwide who created winning entries in a Google Earth Education competition. The contest sought innovative ways to use the KML computer programming language in research.

The US Forest Service's second-highest ranking official told participants in the 2009 SAE Clean Snowmobile Challenge that their efforts contribute to the future of America's wild places.

Michigan Technological University achieved its best finish in five years at the 2009 Society of Automotive Engineers Clean Snowmobile Challenge, finishing second and winning the Yellowstone National Park Award for Second Place.

The University of Wisconsin at Madison triumphed two for two Saturday, March 21, at the 2009 SAE Clean Snowmobile Challenge, winning in both divisions of a competition tailor-made for the Snow Belt.

It takes more than a few days of sunshine to melt 260-plus inches of snow, which turned out to be a St. Patrick's Day blessing for contestants in the SAE Clean Snowmobile Challenge.

Michigan Technological University and Michigan State University (MSU) have received more than $1.4 million from the US Department of Energy through the Michigan Economic Development Corporation (MEDC), to establish a new forest-based biofuel research center. The center will focus on research to help make cellulosic biofuels a commercial reality.

The 10th annual SAE Clean Snowmobile Challenge kicks off Tuesday, March 17, with a trail ride to Baraga via the Portage Lake Lift Bridge.

A team of Michigan Technological University researchers led by Associate Professor of Chemistry Haiying Liu has discovered how to make a strain of E. coli glow under fluorescent light. The technique could eventually be used to track down all sorts of pathogens and even help in the fight against breast cancer.

Nearly 600 road maintenance personnel at 191 locations in 19 states learned about the latest research and best practices in de-icing and sustainable road maintenance during a national winter road maintenance web conference.

Merging flex-fuel, great mileage and low emissionsMichigan Tech Receives $1.5 Million Grant for Developing Flex-Fuel Hybrid TechnologiesMichigan Tech Receives $1.5 Million Grant for Developing Flex-Fuel Hybrid Technologies

Michigan Tech and US Forest Service scientists will study the effect of worms and other variables on a simulated forest floor.

Northern Michigan farmers could earn a profit converting idle farmland to tree plantations for bioenergy crops.

Contrary to popular belief, moderate amounts of global warming and acid rain actually improve forest productivity.

Michigan Tech helps Wolverine Power examine potential of woody biomass to help generate clean electricity.

Michigan Tech will receive state capital outlay funds to build a Great Lakes Research facility on the campus waterfront.

Harnessing the computing muscle behind the leading video games to understand the most intricate of real-life systems

Michigan Tech and the University of Michigan team up to investigate sleep disorders

97 Michigan Tech athletes received academic achievement awards from the Division II Athletics Directors Association

Biochar, an easily produced charcoal made by slow-burning scrap wood and other organic matter, enriches soil 880 percent and sequesters carbon.

Michigan Tech researchers are using meteorological balloons to measure volcanic gases as they erupt from Hawaiian volcano.

The little Miss Muffets of the world may once have created a booming market for whey, but now dairies are awash in this sugary byproduct of cheese-making.

Isle Royale National Park hosts weekend celebration of 50th anniversary of the Wolf-Moose Predator-Prey Study.

Michigan Tech scientist Seth Donahue's osteoporosis research has received an infusion of financial support.Michigan Tech Bear Bones Research Gets a Boost

In the global war against poor sanitation, the lowly privy can trump the fanciest commode.

Michigan Technological University physicist Ranjit Pati and his team have developed a model to explain the mechanism behind computing’s elusive Holy Grail, the single molecular switch.

Michigan Tech has joined a select group of research institutions and federal agencies working together to streamline the administration of federal research grants.

A Michigan Tech professor has developed a new water treatment that could help keep a deadly fish disease out of Lake Superior.

Alternative energy research and education finds a new home in an old building.

Michigan Tech is ranked in the top 20 worldwide for its published poplar research.

A Michigan Tech researcher identifies a new cause of earthquakes at Mount St. Helens, North America's most active volcano.

Increases in research at Michigan Tech pay off in Governor's proposed higher education budget.

Fall colors are coming later due to increased carbon dioxide levels, and that may be good news for forestry industries.

The remains of a forest that may have been covered by the last glacier to melt on the Upper Peninsula of Michigan more than 10,000 years ago has been found in a farmer's pond.

Not just your everyday climate change, says renowned geologist.

Massive black holes in the centers of galaxy are the source.

Michigan Tech has joined the IBM World Community Grid, to put computers to work on pressing scientific and medical research when they would otherwise be idle.

Scientists at Michigan Technological University and Yale University have received a National Science Foundation grant of nearly $2 million to do a collaborative, interdisciplinary study of the water in the Great Lakes.

Harvesting energy through a walk in the woods

Michigan Tech scientists have been studying the interactions of the wolves and moose of Isle Royale National Park for 50 years.

Global warming may be the beginning of the end for the moose and wolves of Isle Royale National Park.

The National Science Foundation's report on research expenditures shows Michigan Technological University's research program grew 12 percent from FY2004 to FY2005, Provost and Vice President for Research David Reed told the Board of Control Aug. 2.

Scientists have found another exotic bug in Michigan that eats native trees, but at this point, it appears that the sirex woodwasp won’t cause quite the same devastation as the emerald ash borer.

Faculty member sheds light on the hidden lives of insects

Michigan Tech Dedicates Research Institute in Ann Arbor.

John Vucetich leads opposition to US Interior Department ruling.

Both populations plummet

Over 10 years ago, Janice Glime began writing a text on the ecology of bryophytes, a group of diminutive plants that includes mosses.

To be used for hazard mitigation planning

The Environmental and Emerging Technologies Division of the Altarum Institute of Ann Arbor.

Research featured on "Science" cover

Up over 17 percent, says the National Science Foundation

Michael Roggemann, a professor of electrical and computer engineering, has received a $9.75-million grant from the Department of the Army.

An ethanol Enterprise fires up at Michigan Tech

Richard Honrath's tiny mid-Atlantic observatory will soon change hands, a move that could enhance global atmospheric science for years to come.

The key to reversing osteoporosis?

To create light, strong green foams

Moose numbers continue to plummet

The elk decline in Yellowstone is caused mainly by drought and hunting.

While many R&D budgets are hurting, revenue from research is up 15 percent at Michigan Tech.

Black bears can sleep half the year away and still have healthy bones. Now it looks like their cousins, grizzly bears, share the same enviable trait.

The resort island could be on the verge of being overrun by an exotic European import.

Tech researchers use engineering in battle against osteoarthritis.