Fall 2019 Graduate School Newsletter

I’m confident that among the upcoming and future graduate alumni, including the 10,000th graduate degree recipient, we will continue to find the leaders the world needs to create a strong, productive and inclusive future. - Pushpa Murthy, Dean of the Graduate School and Associate Provost
The first graduate students were on campus in 1889, just four years after Michigan Tech (then called the Michigan Mining School) was established. Our first two master’s degrees were awarded in 1927 to Jack L. Byers and Corbin T. Eddy. The first two doctorates were granted in 1934 to Roy W. Drier and Corbin T. Eddy. The first female graduate student at Michigan Tech was Margaret R. Holly who entered the MS degree program in Chemistry in 1935. In July, 1950, the Board of Control approved the creation of the Graduate School, and in 1960, physicist Donald Yerg became the first dean. Since that time, our Graduate School has achieved many milestones and we celebrated a big one this year: we awarded our 10,000th degree.