April 2009

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

Project BURN-UP, a partnership among Michigan Tech and 16 other public and private partners, won a federal Two Chiefs Partnership Award for its conservation efforts

Lt. Col. Otha Thornton, a presidential communications officer, is the featured speaker at Michigan Technological University’s Spring Commencement, set for Saturday, May 2.

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

Graduate school rankings released today by US News & World Report rank three of Michigan Tech's graduate engineering programs in the top 50 nationwide.

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).

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

Graduate students from across Michigan are presenting their research to legislators in Lansing at Graduate Education Day April 23.

Professor Richard Honrath, a leader of Michigan Tech's atmospheric sciences program and recipient of the 2006 Research Award, died Friday, April 17, in a kayaking accident on the Silver River in Baraga County.

Michigan Tech is the first university in the state to receive a federal grant to host a National Summer Transportation Institute for high school students.

Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm has appointed Marquette civic leader Thomas L. Baldini to fill a vacant seat on the Michigan Technological University Board of Control. Baldini will serve through 2016. He replaces David Brule, whose term has expired.

The US Dept. of Defense is going to help a Michigan Tech student earn a graduate degree in nuclear engineering.

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.

All three Michigan Tech student nominees Goldwater Scholarships this year.

Two researchers at Michigan Tech have been named to sustainability chairs endowed by Dick and Bonnie Robbins.

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

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