October 2011

Michigan Tech's Sustainable Futures Institute has been awarded a $749,996 grant from the National Science Foundation to develop a roadmap for  biofuels and bionergy sustainability research and education in the Pan American region.

Graduate students on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean are studying forest resources in each other's countries and earning dual Master's degrees as they do it.

The gift supports the real-life student investment program launched by Dean Johnson in 1998.

Located in the Azores, the observatory is ideal for investigating pollutants drifting east from North America.

Michigan Tech graduate enrollment is at an all-time high, while nationally the enrollment of new graduate students is down slightly. There are several reasons for Tech's success.

Eric Whitacre visiting campus to lead Tech and high school students in concert of contemporary classical music

Sustainable management of the world's forests and grasslands requires an understanding of how animals grazing and human activities impact change in these ecosystems.

The new LSGI Trading Room is now home to Michigan Tech's Applied Portfolio Management Program, which invests $1 million of real money in the stock market. 

Alumni entrepreneurs offered students and community members suggestions for starting up companies and succeeding with tomorrow's technologies.

Mechanical engineering student Jared Schlueter's self portrait in pencil has been chosen to hang in the Michigan Legislature's House Office Building in Lansing for the next year.

Gift builds on donations from GM of over  $200,000 this year 

The 250,000-member AGI is a federation of 50 professional associations

Trained as first responders, volunteers are ready to address campus emergencies