Research

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.