2008 Archive

Strategic planning and careful financial management has positioned Michigan Tech to weather future financial storms.

300 grads to be honored

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

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.

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

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

$1.6 million in NSF grants will enable Michigan Tech to expand its High School Enterprise Program to eight high schools.

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.

Speakers' Forum Oct. 24, Powwow Oct. 25

The Michigan Tech Board of Control authorized planning and design work for new apartment-style student housing.

"Michigan Tech continues to make excellent progress under Glenn's leadership," said Board of Control Chair Russell A. Gronevelt.

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

here will be a new way to watch the turbulent stock market on the Michigan Tech campus.

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

Services will be held at Oak Grove Funeral Home and Cremation Center in Ludington.

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

Michigan Tech forms nation's first Peace Corps Master's International program in mechanical engineering.

Michigan Tech is celebrating Constitution Day.

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

Michigan Tech has received a large NSF grant to improve its hiring processes and provide mentorship for faculty.

Largest enrollment in 25 years

This year's theme: "Weaving Cultural Harmony"

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

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

Dozens of Michigan Tech students opened their hearts and emptied their wallets Thursday, not for iPhones, concert tickets or even textbooks, but to build schools for the poorest of the poor.

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

At 11 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. in Dow 641

Bestselling author Greg Mortenson comes to campus

Business administration senior Tony Hellenbrand was interviewed Monday morning on CNBC's "Squawk on the Street".

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

Michigan Tech's undergraduate education has moved up this year in the top tier of national universities, according to US News & World Report's latest rankings.

Michigan Tech is implementing an emergency communications service called Safety First Alert.

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.

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

With the click of a mouse, students, faculty and staff at Michigan Tech can now access an interactive online rideboard to find a ride or rider.

Michigan Tech entomologist confirms infestation of ash-killing insect.

Two ambitious Detroit teens find summer adventure at Michigan Tech.

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.

Students praise academics and quality of life

Free skiing, tennis and much more

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

Michigan Tech has been named a partner in Michigan's first Center of Energy Excellence.

Michigan Technological University's Board of Control approved a fiscal year 2009 budget.

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.

Michigan Tech is the only university in Michigan selected for the next international student vehicle design competition.

Michigan Tech's Board of Control recognized the accomplishments of more than 1,000 new graduates, most of whom already have jobs in their fields.

Courtesy of the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality

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

The 2008 recipient of the Robert Horonjeff Award from the American Society of Civil Engineers.

Nearly 1,000 students receiving degrees

An effort to further police investigation

Dozens of student projects on display, from a window-washing robot to a buried forest

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

Michigan Tech's Applied Portfolio Management Program knows the secret to successful investing.

Head of Drexel University's decision sciences department brings expertise in engineering and business.

Social sciences chair an "outstanding scholar and educator"

Graduate school rankings released today by U.S. News & World Report rate four of Michigan Tech's graduate engineering programs in the top 50 nationally.

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

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.

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

Students to gain technical and acting skills

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

The University's Board of Control today authorized issuing $6.15 million in bonds for buildings and facilities.

Les Cook, vice president for student affairs at Michigan Technological University, was recently voted vice president of Region IV-East of NASPA.

A better way to measure noise

Honored for achievements in education

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.

Tech team to face off against the world's best college programmers

Tenured and tenure-track faculty at Michigan Technological University have voted not to continue being represented by the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) in collective bargaining.

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

In partnership with the Women's Basketball Coaches' Association, Michigan Tech Athletics is participating in Think Pink Week.

Michigan Technological University has earned top marks for campus safety in a survey conducted by Reader's Digest.

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

Alpha Gamma Delta's icy interpretation of Frankenstein's laboratory grabbed first place in the women's group category.

Its aim: to encourage presidential debate on science and technology

Funeral information announced, donations requested to benefit ski patrol

Actually, it's a Chevy Nova IN ice, or it will be when two visiting artists get through with it. The frozen car project is part of Michigan Tech's Winter Carnival, which starts next week in Houghton, Michigan.

"Frightful Creatures with Chilling Features"

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

State Rep. George Cushingberry, chair of the House Appropriations Committee, to keynote MLK Banquet

2008: the year of biofuel