January 2010

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

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

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

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

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

International students will cook dishes from their homelands to serve at the Memorial Union Commons on Fridays. Proceeds from the first lunch on Jan. 29 will go to help Haitian relief.  

Diversity Advisory Board creates a "Send a Kid to Camp" scholarship fund to promote diversity at Michigan Tech. 

Far from their devastated homeland, Haitian members of the Michigan Tech community struggled to track down family members and friends in the wake of last week's disastrous earthquake. Here is the personal story of Fredline Ilorme, a graduate student in civil and environmental engineering, who writes about the longest 24 hours of her life.

Michigan Tech researchers discuss what happened to cause the Haitian earthquake and what should be done in the future.

The Transportation Research Board of the National Research Council has honored Michigan Tech's Terry McNinch and Tim Colling with its Charley V. Wootan Award.

Physics professor Robert Nemiroff showed dozens of photos that run the gamut from modern engineering marvels to artistic fantasy.

Michigan Tech's Peace Corps Master's Program in Natural Hazards Mitigation is working to help save lives around the world. 

Learn to face icy roadways with confidence.

Boron nitride nanotubes are notoriously hard to synthesize. Now, Michigan Tech researcher Yoke Khin Yap has coaxed lush carpets of them to grow on substrates.

Michigan Tech is honoring the memory of Martin Luther King Jr. with a series of observances, culminating in the annual MLK banquet Saturday, Jan. 23.

The DOE has initiated a $564 million research effort to boost America's biofuel industry, and David Shonnard will be participating in three of the agency's 19 funded projects.

Automotive engineering is entering a new era of hybrid electric-drive vehicles that demand a special set of skills most automotive engineers didn’t study when they went to college. To prepare engineers to thrive in this hybrid/electric world, Michigan Technological University is developing an interdisciplinary professional Master of Engineering program with graduate and undergraduate certification in propulsion technologies for hybrid and electric vehicles.

The St. Louis Blues hockey club has named former Michigan Tech player Davis Payne as interim head coach.