June 9, 2025

The streets of San Francisco will never be the same — and neither will four Huskies from Michigan Tech's College of Business, who enjoyed a life-changing international competition and exploring the city through their membership in Michigan Tech DECA.

Collegiate DECA's 2025 International Career Development Conference, held in late April in San Francisco, California, featured real-life case studies, hands-on research and prepared presentations. The organization prepares emerging leaders and entrepreneurs for careers through the practice of business problem-solving in hospitality, management, entrepreneurship, finance and marketing.

Representing the College of Business and MTU were Allyana Grochowski ’26, Veronica Frystakalong ’26, Dylan Dunneback ’27 and Jaylen Body ’25. All four went head-to-head with other DECA members from around the world in a series of business-based case study competitions.

Find out how they did and what they learned at the College of Business Newsblog.

The Office of Alumni Engagement is excited to announce the slate of honorees for the 2025 Alumni Awards:

• Outstanding Young Alumni — Peter H. Winegar ’17
• Honorary Alumni — Jeffrey C. Littmann
• Outstanding Service — David A. Hartley ’71
• Distinguished Alumni — Robert J. Currey ’67
• Humanitarian — Barbie E. Laderman-Jones ’92

These extraordinary alumni and friends will be honored at the 2025 Alumni Awards Ceremony, which will be held on August 1 during Reunion Weekend.

Faculty/Staff Registration for Alumni Reunion
As previously shared, we will be collecting faculty/staff registrations through our Reunion 2025 Faculty/Staff Registration form for this year’s Alumni Reunion. While we encourage faculty and staff to join us for the festivities, our visiting alumni and friends will be given priority for events that have capacity restrictions. One such event is the Honored Classes Dinner. We welcome faculty and staff to join us at the Alumni Awards Ceremony at 7:30 p.m. to celebrate those being honored, but the dinner prior to the ceremony is limited to our visiting guests, as that event always sells out.

Please contact the Office of Alumni Engagement at 906-487-2400 or alumni@mtu.edu if you have any questions.

The Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Club at Michigan Tech is hosting a four-day workshop titled “Nanopore Direct RNA Sequencing and Next-Generation Sequencing Data Analysis” from June 17-20. The workshop will be held in the U. J. Noblet Forestry Building.

This workshop is free and open to all MTU researchers and students interested in learning about cutting-edge DNA/RNA sequencing technologies and data analysis methods.

Participants will be introduced to Oxford Nanopore's Direct RNA Sequencing technology, including a hands-on wet lab session for library preparation and sequencing using a MinION device. In addition, the workshop will cover data analysis workflows for both Nanopore long-read and Illumina short-read sequencing data.

If interested, please contact Assistant Professor Yinan Yuan (CFRES) at yinyuan@mtu.edu or Reed Arneson at rgarneso@mtu.edu to sign up.

Job Posting for Monday, June 9, 2025

Staff and faculty job descriptions are available on the Human Resources website. For more information regarding staff positions, call 906-487-2280 or email humanresources@mtu.edu. For more information regarding faculty positions, contact the academic department in which the position is posted.

​Facilities Engineer – Architect, Facilities Management. Apply online.

Michigan Technological University is an Equal Opportunity Educational Institution/Equal Opportunity Employer that provides equal opportunity for all, including protected veterans and individuals with disabilities.

Accommodations are available. If you require any auxiliary aids, services, or other accommodations to apply for employment, or for an interview, at Michigan Technological University, please notify the Human Resources office at 906-487-2280 or humanresources@mtu.edu.

A team of students from Michigan Tech's Aeronautics and Rocketry Enterprise advised by Kazuya Tajiri (MAE) and the Keweenaw Rocket Range registered student organization traveled to Midland, Texas, to compete in the 2025 International Rocket Engineering Competition (IREC), hosted by the Experimental Sounding Rocket Association from June 9-14.

IREC is the largest event of its kind in the world for collegiate rocketry. This year, Michigan Tech will be competing against over 80 universities from six different continents in the 10,000-foot commercial off-the-shelf category (10K COTS). In this category, teams are required to design and build a rocket with a functional payload and are permitted to use commercially sourced motors.

Launch days are scheduled from June 11-14.

Rolf Peterson (CFRES) was quoted in a Detroit News story naming him as one of the newspaper’s Michiganians of the Year. Peterson was honored for his 55 years of dedication to the research project studying the wolves and moose of Isle Royale.

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David Kamrad and Gini Gesler (both CEO) were quoted in a Daily Mining Gazette story about the TRIO Pre-College Program’s 40 years of service to secondary school students from low-income families seeking to become first-generation college students.

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The Detroit News mentioned Michigan Tech in a story naming Ellen Thompson, co-founder of the Thompson Family Working Family Scholarships program of the Thompson Foundation, as one of the newspaper’s Michiganians of the Year. Michigan Tech was highlighted as one of four universities with a Thompson Scholars program.

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The Iron Mountain Daily News picked up a Mining Journal story about the opening of the first mass timber building in the Upper Peninsula, located in Newberry. The Michigan Department of Natural Resources customer service center was built using mass timber, a sustainable material, with research from Michigan Tech and Michigan State University contributing to its development.

Chem Stores Inventory Closure

Chem Stores will be closed June 26-30 for our annual inventory. During this time, we won't be able to conduct transactions except for critical needs, such as liquid nitrogen. Please continue to submit orders as usual, and we'll process them after inventory concludes.

We appreciate your help in planning ahead to complete your purchases and pick up items by June 25.

Please contact us at chemstores@mtu.edu if you have any questions or concerns.

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Accepting and Documenting Gifts-In-Kind

When a Michigan Tech unit receives non-cash gifts, such as property, materials or supplies, it is important that gift-in-kind (GIK) procedures and guidelines are followed to ensure stewardship for continued generosity, to properly record and tag University property, and to meet requirements established by the IRS and University policy.

Gifts from Individuals
For gifts from individuals, complete the Gifts-In-Kind from Individuals Acceptance Form PDF and submit to techfund@mtu.edu.

Gifts from Companies
Prior to requesting or accepting offers of corporate gifts-in-kind, please email gift-admin@mtu.edu to ensure the gift is able to be accepted. You will then complete the Corporate Gift-In-Kind Acceptance Form PDF* and submit to techfund@mtu.edu. Please refer to the Corporate Gift-In-Kind Guidelines PDF.
* Please note: This form is an XFA PDF and may not appear correctly in your web browser. To download the PDF and view it in Adobe Acrobat, right-click the link and select Download Linked File.

If you need assistance or have any questions, please email techfund@mtu.edu or call 906-487-2310.

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Strength and Conditioning : Summer Middle School Program

Monday, June 9, 10–11 a.m. | Student Development Complex (SDC), Multi-Purpose

Lead by the MTU Strength and Conditioning Staff, this 8-week summer program is for athletes looking to improve their performance and fitness level to prepare for the upcoming...

Strength and Conditioning : Summer High School Program

Monday, June 9, 11 a.m.–12 p.m. | Student Development Complex (SDC), Multi-Purpose

Lead by the MTU Strength and Conditioning Staff, this 8-week summer program is for athletes looking to improve their performance and fitness level to prepare for the upcoming...

Master's Defense: Abbigail Blackwell

Monday, June 9, 1–2 p.m. | Great Lakes Research Center (GLRC), 202

Biological Sciences Advisor: Erika Hersch-Green Examining the Role of Plant Genome Size and Polyploidy in Shaping Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi Symbioses Attend Virtually:...