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    Guest Blog: Turning a Layoff into Creativity

    The pandemic’s impacts on our campus research ecosystem are many and varied. In her guest blog, disability services coordinator Christy Oslund shares how getting laid off and returning part-time opened creative opportunities. I knew the layoff calls were being made.
    I’d already gone through the first round of HR and supervisor phone calls and been told I was being reduced from full-time to three-quarters. As a single person, there is no other income to help support my household, but there are still many of the same costs that a family has: house, heat, car, insurance, phone. Losing part of my income was tough; I was hoping to be spared a layoff on top of that. By the time 5:30 p.m. came around, I thought, "The workday is over — I must be safe." Of course, that’s the point when the phone rang.

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September 3, 2021

Michigan Tech Part of $15M Great Lakes Innovation Hub

In an effort to nurture a regional innovation ecosystem and move more discoveries from the research lab to the real world, the National Science Foundation (NSF) has established a Great Lakes Innovation Corps Hub and Michigan Technological University . . .
August 26, 2021

Lakeshore Center Update

Late in the afternoon on August 25, a portion of a concrete dock next to the Lakeshore Center fell into the Keweenaw Waterway. The Lakeshore Center is a Michigan Tech building that houses some administrative functions—it is located away from the main campus. . . .
June 16, 2021

MTU’s Werner Named One of Michigan’s Distinguished Professors

Thomas Werner, associate professor of genetics and developmental biology in Michigan Technological University’s Department of Biological Sciences, has been recognized by the Michigan Association of State Universities (MASU) as one of three recipients of the Michigan Distinguished Professor of the Year award. The . . .
May 18, 2021

Michigan Tech Hosts Virtual Great Lakes Conference

More than 600 freshwater researchers and others from the Great Lakes region and beyond will meet virtually May 17–21 for the 64th annual Conference on Great Lakes Research. "Bridging: Knowledges • Seven Generations • Land to Lake" is the theme for the conference, . . .

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