April 2010

Michigan Tech's Board of Control approved a budget and tuition for 2010-2011.

Physics professors David Nitz and Brian Fick are co-recipients of the 2010 Michigan Tech Research Award for their work with the international Auger Observatory.

Michigan Tech alumna works to help save the whooping cranes.

Researchers from Japan and Michigan Tech have built a molecular computer using lessons learned from the human brain.

The May 1 ceremony coincides with Michigan Tech's Founder's Day, the date 125 years ago when legislation was signed to establish what was then the Michigan Mining School.

Michigan Tech researchers' annual report on the wolves and moose of Isle Royale shows that the numbers of wolves and wolf packs is declining in the national park.  

Tech students research and create new sporting pigeons and a device to throw them.

A Michigan Tech Senior Design Team showcased their improved pit toilet at National Sustainability Expo in Washington, D.C.

Students, alumni, campus police and local businessmen repair bikes abandoned on Michigan Tech campus.

2010 Undergraduate Research Expo award winners are announced.

School of Business and Economics students in the Applied Portfolio Management Program take second place in the value category of the RISE X investment competition.

Geology assistant professor Simon Carn studies the recent Iceland volcano eruption with satellite data, looking at sulfur dioxide content of the ash cloud and the cloud's affect on air traffic.

Students add scuba tanks to a two-wheeler

The Michigan Space Grant Consortium has funded 27 projects with grants totaling $105,000.

A Puerto Rican high school Enterprise team brings their underwater robots to Michigan Tech's Undergraduate Research Expo.

The spotlight is on undergraduate research at the 10th Annual Undergraduate Research Expo.

Antibiotics in the water supply pose threats to health. Now, a grass from India may remove them from the waste stream.

At Undergrad Expo, Senior Design team displays a cook's dream machine

Best in the racing, display and paper events

Psychology researchers look at sleep patterns of Michigan Tech students. 

Four Michigan Tech graduate students discuss their research with state legislators.

Boosting power engineers' education from a distance

Michigan Tech researcher Tess Ahlborn believes we could learn a lot from bridges, if only we could hear what they had to say. Now she leads a $2.8 million effort to find the best ways to listen in. 

A Michigan Tech geophysicist can tell if a sandalwood tree has precious oil at its heart. And now, thanks to two freshmen, he can find out in seconds.

Michigan Tech alumnus Bhakta Rath has endowed a new award to recognize outstanding doctoral student research. It will be called the Bhakta Rath Research Award.

The Governor has appointed Terry Woychowski and reappointed Russ Gronevelt to the Michigan Tech Board of Control.