Alumni and Friends

A paratrooper and an army ranger, Hall was deployed to Afghanistan with 503rd Parachute Infantry Regiment, 173rd Airborne Brigade. Hall was killed in action on July 31, 2007. He was posthumously awarded the Bronze Star for heroism and the Purple Heart.

Nepal is home to eight of the world's highest mountains, and one alumnus from this rooftop of the world has some pretty lofty ideas. Smriti Dahal graduated in August 2007 with a master's degree in environmental policy. Her research took her back to her native Nepal, where she studied a group of women in Gundu, a village eight miles southeast of Kathmandu.

Michelle is a second generation Michigan Tech graduate.  Her father, Robert Jarvie, received a bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering in 1962.   Michelle received her bachelor’s degree in Environmental Engineering in 1996 and went on to earn her master’s in Environmental Policy in 1999.  In 2007 she then earned a PhD in Environmental Engineering.