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2010 Archive

Technical support experts guide transportation technology webinar participants through web-based training.

Center for Technology & Training Brings New Tools to Transportation Technology Transfer

February 10, 2010
By Jennifer Donovan

A reorganized Center for Technology & Training is bringing web-based transportation technology transfer to county road commissions, cities, towns and villages throughout Michigan and across the country.

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Phi Kappa Tau

2010 Winter Carnival Statue Results Announced

February 4, 2010
By John Gagnon

Winter Carnival 2010 Statue results feature lots of Nintendo and other games, including Phi Kappa Tau's winning statue in the fraternity division.

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Katie Wysocky, women's basketball player and Academic All-American

Faces of Carnival: Women's Basketball Star Finally Makes it to Winter Carnival

February 3, 2010
By Jennifer Donovan

Women's basketball star Katie Wysocky finally gets to attend Winter Carnival.

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More Yooper Sprint

Faces of Carnival: Anne Francois, Yooper Sprinter

February 1, 2010
By Dennis Walikainen

Skiing and snowshoeing at the same time: only at Winter Carnival, in the Yooper Sprint!

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Victoria Demers

Faces of Carnival: Victoria Demers, Snow Volleyball Rookie

February 1, 2010
By Dennis Walikainen

Playing volleyball in the snow sounds like fun, and it is, but it is also hard, as rookie Victoria Demers found at Winter Carnival 2010.

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2009 Winter Carnival Human Bowling

It’s Carnival Time! Come Out and Play

January 28, 2010
By Marcia Goodrich

This year's theme: "Games We Know in a World of Snow."

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Ice Bowling

Faces of Carnival: Brad Nedrow, Ice Bowling Shepherd

January 28, 2010
By Dennis Walikainen

Winter Carnival special events include human ice bowling, with students as the ball and wooden pins as the target.

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Clean Snowmobile Challenge 2009 Endurance Run

More MPGs on the Trail: Fuel Economy the Focus of Clean Snowmobile Challenge Twenty-ten

January 28, 2010
By Marcia Goodrich

Nineteen teams from colleges across North America's Snow Belt are building, cleaner, quieter, greener machines.

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Michelle Jacob named Michigan Tech women's soccer coach.

Michelle Jacob to Become Women’s Soccer Program’s First Coach

January 27, 2010
By Jennifer Donovan

Michigan Tech hires Michelle Jacob as varsity women's soccer coach. 

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Michigan Tech chemical engineering undergrad Eric Neff makes the acquaintance of the famous Toripolliisi (

Start to Finnish: An Exchange Student's Dispatch

January 27, 2010
By Jennifer Donovan

Chemical engineering undergraduate Eric Neff reports on his first days as an exchange student at the University of Oulu in Finland. 

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