September 2010

With $125 million already donated, Michigan Tech has launched the public phase of a $200 million capital campaign.

Jeff Allen, L. Brad King and Jeff Naber today received endowed associate professorships in mechanical engineering-engineering mechanics. The donors are ME-EM alumni John Calder and Ron Starr. 

The Michigan Tech Board of Control voted today to name the University's new residential apartment building Hillside Place.

General Motors has donated more to Michigan Tech, raising its total support over more than three decades to $8.3 million.

The National Research Council (NRC) of the National Academies today released a comparison of more than 5,000 doctoral programs at 212 universities across the nation, including Michigan Technological University.  The assessment of graduate programs  rated 12 PhD programs at Michigan Tech, giving highest marks to two in the School of Forest Resources and Environmental Science: forest molecular genetics and biotechnology and forest science.

Michigan Tech geophysicist Aleksey Smirnov, has made a major discovery about the origin of the so-called "Siberian traps."

Events include a women's self-defense demonstration, SAVE the Day and more 

"Many Nations—One Heart"

Ahlborn honored for her contributions to the educational mission of the precast concrete structures industry.

Michigan Tech's 2010 fall enrollment has topped projected numbers, including more graduate students and a more diverse student body. 

A clinical lab science student's limerick is published in the The Clinical Chemistry Journal.

Humanities Professor Patty Sotirin's research explores aunts' roles in raising nieces and nephews.

Something has been eating Charlie Kerfoot’s doughnut, and all fingers point to a European mollusk about the size of a fat lima bean.

The Michigan Tech Research Institute is mapping the spread of an invasive reed with a taste for the wetlands and beaches of the Great Lakes.