April 2012

John Velat travels the high road to help Native American communities attain safe, efficient, and environmentally sound transportation.

New report shows that a Michigan Tech education is a good investment.

Designing two inexpensive, workable prostheses: a foot and a knee

A scientist at Michigan Tech has developed a simple, cheap way to make water safe to drink

Reaffirms fundamental goals, emphasizes entrepreneurship and outlines specific objectives

Team also recognized for creativity, safety

A karate master can break a brick with his bare hands, and children visiting the Michigan Tech Mind Trekkers exhibit at the 2nd USA Science & Engineering Festival at the Washington Convention Center this weekend can hurl a ping pong ball right through a soda can—learning for themselves the physics of air pressure. 

A new Bachelor of Science in Engineering degree, with a technical emphasis in mining engineering, will begin in fall 2012.

Improved electrical conductivity enhances electron transfer, says Michigan Tech scientist

Washington, DC and the Detroit area are getting a peek at the workings of hybrid electric vehicle technology, as Michigan Tech's HEV mobile lab goes on the road.

His "quest to understand Nature—and transfer that understanding to others—is unflagging.”

Forestry Professor Andrew Storer shares Michigan Tech's 2012 Research Award with Physics Professor Robert Nemiroff.

The University will honor the achievements of more than 1,000 students 

SWEAT. SDC community programs, TechFit, HuskyPAW—there are many ways to get fit at Michigan Tech.

Mind Trekkers brings hands-on science excitement to Sheboygan, Wis.; next stop,Washington, D.C.

Fourteen years as department chair, 39 years on the Michigan Tech faculty

Michigan Tech's Peace Corps Master's International Program ranks first in the nation for the seventh time in a row.

Michigan Tech researchers lend their expertise and their equipment to Clintonville, Wis., in search of a reason for the booms that residents have been hearin g.

Michigan Tech's Automotive Computing and Transportation Enterprises are studying the bus service in Houghton and Hancock, to develop a model for more efficient and sustainable public transportation.

Nanoparticles lock the chemicals in place

A professor and former head of the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering at the University of Illinois at Chicago, William W. Worek has accepted the post effective July 1.

It focuses on water, a fuel cell's worst enemy.

Biomedical engineering student Hal Holmes has been named a Goldwater Scholar.

Terry Sharik has been named the new dean of Michigan Tech's School of Forest Resources and Environmental Science.

 Dean Johnson, associate professor in the School of Business and Economics, has been named Michigan Professor of the Year.

Michigan Tech student entrepreneurs brought home $40,000 for first place and $5,000 for third place from the New Venture Competition at Central Michigan University. 

Michigan Tech researchers collaborate with public school teachers to make earth science more relevant to middle-schoolers.