2013 Archive

As the GLRC approaches its first anniversary, the research center is humming.

Researchers find that white-tailed deer may be making the soil in their preferred winter homes unfit to grow the very trees that protect them there.

Tech student Melissa Wolfe Michaelson created a dramatic display of 600 empty plastic water bottles to raise awareness about plastic bottle consumption.

Richelle Winkler, assistant professor of social sciences, is analyzing population migration patterns over the past 60-plus years and discovering some interesting trends.

HAWC Observatory will capture gamma rays with trillions of times more energy than visible light.

Students from two courses at Michigan Tech have teamed up to help the North Woods Conservancy design and build a compostable toilet at Seven Mile Point Beach.

Two Michigan Tech research teams have received highly competitive grants to conduct Great Lakes restoration projects.

An international consensus study shows that most climate scientists believe human activity is the primary cause of global climate change.

The Michigan Tech Research Institute has signed a contract with the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to conduct research in adapative radar countermeasures.

For many, teaching is a passion. And when the subject matter gets to be complex, many who teach turn to their other passions to help explain, guide and enlighten. One of Physics Professor Bryan H. Suits' passions is music, and he uses it to make physics come alive for undergraduates.