2007 Archive

Michigan Tech is the only university in the nation to partner with the US Department of Defense to recruit students for jobs.

Michigan Technological University will offer in-state tuition to the sons, daughters or spouses of anyone on full-time active military duty anywhere in the world.

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

A chemical engineering alumna from Michigan Tech is on her way to Oslo, Norway, for the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize ceremonies.

7K of X-C trails now lit until 10 p.m. nightly, new lift improves access on the east side of Mt. Ripley

The university will recognize the achievements of more than 450 graduates.

Michigan Tech has moved up in the National Science Foundation's annual report on research expenditures.

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

C. Robert Baillod, professor emeritus and former chair of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, has been elected to a three-year term on the Board of Trustees of the American Academy of Environmental Engineers (AAEE).

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.

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

Michigan Tech Faculty Rated Among the Most Productive in the Nation

Science and engineering are cool, and so is Michigan Tech

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

Gift keeps processing facility the best in the nation

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.

Michigan Tech will receive $49,028,200 from higher education bill passed by state Legislature.

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.

Michigan Tech's MBA program ranks in the top 100 MBA programs around the world for its emphasis on sustainability and social/environmental issues.

Detroit high school principal Lenora Ashford has been named to the Michigan Tech Board of Control.

The second phase of the Center for Integrated Learning and Information Technology tops Michigan Technological University's 2009 Capital Outlay Budget Request.

John and Cathi Drake have endowed a professorship in mechanical engineering, and Gordon G. Parker has been named its first recipient.

Michigan Tech is one of the best colleges and universities in the nation for undergraduate education, according to the 2008 edition of a guidebook called Best 366 Colleges, published by Princeton Review

Scores up in seven of 10 categories

Two undergraduate programs at Michigan Tech have been ranked among the top 25 in US News and World Report's Best Undergraduate Colleges guide.

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.

Free trips on the research vessel, ice cream social

Michigan Tech will honor the achievements of two alumni and a benefactor at the Alumni Reunion Banquet Friday, Aug. 3.

Marquette businessman Stephen J. Hicks has been appointed to Michigan Tech's Board of Control.

A faculty member whose computing students learn the subtleties of public speaking and a physicist who once advised on pumpkin percussion are the 2007 winners of Michigan Tech's Distinguished Teaching Awards.

Michigan Technological University's Board of Control adopted a balanced budget Thursday, June 21, for the 2007-08 fiscal year, which begins July 1.

After surging up 40 places, students gear up for 2008.

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.

Wood to Wheels Research a Key Factor

Students can take courses from astronomy to mammalogy at the campus that never sleeps.

Faculty member sheds light on the hidden lives of insects

Professor honored for work in photonics

Cimermancic, a mechanical engineering technology senior, leads Michigan Tech’s Challenge X team. It finished 11th this year, and while it would have been nice to win, he says, the team put in a solid showing.

John Vucetich leads opposition to US Interior Department ruling.

Tops in worldwide contest

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

Michigan Tech's Department of Mechanical Engineering-Engineering Mechanics' Capstone Design Program has received an Award of Excellence from Ansul Inc., of Marinette, Wis., a business unit of Tyco Safety Products.

Lead gifts from the Robbins family and Portage Health will extend cross-country skiing into the evening.

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 Dedicates Research Institute in Ann Arbor.

Michigan Tech President Glenn Mroz to testify.

A strong performance by Michigan Tech President Glenn Mroz has helped to position the University for new levels of achievement, according to the Board of Control.

To support sustainability, information technology and entrepreneurship

For excellence in undergraduate education.

John Vucetich leads opposition to US Interior Department ruling.

Biomedical engineering professor to receive Melvin Calvin Award

Hands Across the Border - 4/27/2007

University of Sonora president to be honored at Spring Commencement

Over 800 graduates to be honored.

Will study coaster brook trout spawning habitat, artificial wetlands

Michigan Technological University student Alicia Thorsen has been awarded a 2007 Google Anita Borg Memorial Scholarship.

Undergraduate Stephanie Irish has been named a 2007 Goldwater Scholar. The scholarship provides $7,500 for tuition, fees, books and room and board.

The Oak Ridge Associated Universities’ (ORAU) Board of Directors welcomed David D. Reed as a new director at the 62nd annual meeting of the ORAU Council of Sponsoring Institutions held recently in Oak Ridge, Tenn.

Michigan Tech's Applied Portfolio Management Program Gold Team has taken first place in its class at the seventh annual RISE conference.

Tim Schulz has accepted appointment as Michigan Tech’s next dean of engineering effective July 1, Provost Dave Reed has announced.

Brad King and William Helton to research nanosat engines, smart robots

Young engineers coming from throughout Michigan and northern Ohio

UIdaho back on top after three years in the trenches.

Two-stroke sled gets nearly 20 mph on E10

Six sleds complete Endurance Run

Becomes area's first Silver sponsor

Both populations plummet

Michigan Tech outdrew Northern Michigan University, 136 to 126 pints, to win the annual Blood Drive Competition held Jan. 24.

$10,000 grant supports electric sleds

Over 170 companies sent representatives to Michigan Tech's winter career fair, held on Tuesday, Feb. 20.

Michigan Tech has nominated Stephanie Irish and Brooke Smith for Goldwater Scholarships, the most competitive award in the U.S. for undergraduate students in science, technology, engineering and math.

"Trust and Troth - The Passion that is Research Integrity"

The Second Annual Railroad Night, will be held Tuesday, Feb. 20, 6-9 p.m. at the Spica Restaurant (known as Northern Lights) in Houghton.

Delt Sig's hanging gardens named number one

Congressman Bart Stupak to attend

Along with the usual awe-inspiring snow statues and a variety of fun events, Winter Carnival will offer visitors something new: dog-sled rides and a visit from Miss Michigan.

For research in signal processing

Anti-icing coating prevents accidents

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

The cost of living is 7 percent lower-than-average in Houghton.

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

Dan Greenlee, Michigan Tech's chief financial officer and treasurer of the Board of Control, has agreed to also serve as CFO and director of operations of the Michigan Tech Fund.

Tech's fifth year hosting the event

Michigan Tech's forestry doctoral program is among the top 10 in the nation, according to figures released Monday, Jan. 8, by Academic Analytics.