Michigan Tech News Archives

July 01, 2020

COVID-19 Delays Great Lakes Buoy Deployment, MTU Helps Fill the Gap

The most recently funded CIGLR-funded Spotter buoy was deployed near Munising on June
27, along Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore near Grand Portal Point. Image Credit:
John Lenters

Michigan Tech and the Cooperative Institute for Great Lakes Research have stepped in to ensure buoys are deployed in Lake Superior despite delays due to COVID-19. . . . Read More

June 18, 2020

MTU to Host 2021 Great Lakes Conference

The theme of the 2021 International Association for Great Lakes Research is

Michigan Technological University will host the annual conference of the International Association for Great Lakes Research in May 2021. . . . Read More

May 27, 2020

Tracking and Treating COVID-19 in Human Waste

Treating wastewater protects communities and water resources.

When the virus that causes COVID-19 finds its way into wastewater, what happens to it? Environmental engineers will track the coronavirus in wastewater and biosolids to. . . Read More

May 19, 2020

MTU's Adrienne Minerick Elected to Lead Engineering Educators

Adrienne Minerick, dean of the College of Computing, is ASEE's next president-elect.

Adrienne Minerick, dean of the College of Computing at Michigan Technological University, is president-elect of the American Society for Engineering Education. . . Read More

May 12, 2020

Fresh, Local, Dependable: Nurturing UP Food Systems

MTU partners with local agencies to facilitate conversations among farmers, farmers
market coordinators and area food banks to ensure people can get the food they need
while supporting local growers and increasing food access efforts in the UP.

Michigan Tech partners with local agencies to strengthen western Upper Peninsula food systems during the pandemic and beyond. . . . Read More

May 11, 2020

Protein Shapes Matter in Alzheimer's Research

Fluorescent images show concentrations of tau protein aggregates in soma of neuronal
cells that can cause neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimerâ€™s. On amyloid beta
peptides, chemical modification at lysine 16 can promote these aggregates. Credit:
Ashutosh Tiwari/Michigan Tech

Sometimes proteins misfold. When that happens in the human brain, the pileup of misfolded proteins can lead to neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer’s. . . Read More

May 04, 2020

And Then There Were Two: MTU’s Next Student-built Satellite Set to Launch in 2021

Michigan Tech's Aerospace Enterprise empowers undergraduate students to design, build,
and fly spacecraft.

NASA has slated Michigan Technological University’s second student-built satellite for a March 2021 deployment from the International Space Station (ISS). . . . Read More

April 30, 2020

Erika Hersch-Green Wins CAREER Award for Biodiversity Research

Erika Hersch-Green, evolutionary biologist and assistant professor of biological sciences,
has received a National Science Foundation CAREER award to investigate how the effects
of increased nitrogen and phosphorus alter the primary productivity of some plants,
while reducing the growth of others.

Increasing amounts of nitrogen and phosphorus in terrestrial ecosystems lead to decreasing biodiversity, not only among plant species, but in herbivores and pollinators as well. . . . Read More

April 27, 2020

MTU Oceanographer Addresses 80 Years of Lake Levels at High Water Summit Town Hall

Guy Meadows will discuss Michiganâ€™s lake levels from 1938 to present, as well as inform
coastal communities, property owners and community planners at Michiganâ€™s High Water
Summit April 28.

Engineer Guy Meadows will discuss Michigan’s lake levels from 1938 to present and inform coastal communities, property owners and community planners at second Michigan. . . Read More

April 20, 2020

MTU Junior Kaylee Meyers Awarded Goldwater Scholarship

Kaylee Meyers is the 12th Michigan Tech recipient of the prestigious Barry Goldwater
Scholarship. The junior from Essexville, Michigan is a biomedical engineering major.

For the second consecutive year, a Michigan Tech student has been awarded one of the nation's most prestigious undergraduate research scholarships. . . . Read More