Michigan Tech Homepage Photo Archive

University Marketing and Communications has made an archive of photography used on the Michigan Tech homepage available. New photos are selected each week, but if you would like to suggest a photo to be used on the homepage, please contact Sarah Bird at photoservices@mtu.edu or 906-487-2330.

Bhakta Rath Award - This research award goes to a doctoral student and advisor duo, recognizing the depth and impact of their work.

Bhakta Rath Award

Science and Symphony - Laser-beam hot spots, 100 feet of compost, and weeds redefined. Get in the zone (@USDA hardiness zone 5b, to be specific) and explore the Michigan Tech gardens.

Science and Symphony

Congratulations, Huskies! - Former astronaut Gregory H Johnson, and Monica Brechting—12th in her family to graduate from Michigan Tech—shared their insights with the Class of 2019 at Spring Commencement. Did you miss it? Watch the recorded live stream.

Congratulations, Huskies!

Spring Graduation - More than 1,000 graduates will receive bachelor's, master's and PhD degrees at Michigan Technological University's Spring Commencement at 10:30 a.m. Saturday, May 4, in the MacInnes Student Ice Arena. The commencement speaker is former astronaut and combat pilot Gregory H. Johnson

Spring Graduation

3 Percent for the Planet - Coring peat at 14,000 feet to understand carbon sequestration in the Andes.

3 Percent for the Planet

Invent Tomorrow Now - It's showtime for Enterprise and Senior Design students who bring more than 100 real-world projects before judges and the public at Design Expo 2019.

Invent Tomorrow Now

Gold and Black Give Back - Our first-ever 24-hour giving challenge is in the books with 1,337 gifts and $570,813 raised. Thank you, Huskies!
Did you miss out?

Gold and Black Give Back

Radiocarbon Dating - What secrets can a tiny corn kernel hold? How did a shell, likely from the Gulf of Mexico, end up in a 400-year-old refuse pit in Illinois? These are questions radiocarbon dating can solve.

Radiocarbon Dating

Lithium-Ion Recycling - Michigan Tech is part of a collaboration aimed at creating a national supply of lithium-based battery materials and spurring electric vehicle industry.

Lithium-Ion Recycling

Capturing and Converting Carbon Dioxide - Carbon dioxide is a troublemaker. So it’s a good idea to remove it from power plant emissions — and it may have an extra economic benefit.

Capturing and Converting Carbon Dioxide

A Tech Tradition Since 1922 - What do Huskies do with 218+ inches of snowfall each winter? Throw the most epic winter carnival in the Midwest. Full schedule here.

A Tech Tradition Since 1922

Searching for Shipwrecks - Underwater robots, side-scan sonar, and crowdfunding aid the Great Lakes Research Center's search for two World War I minesweepers.

Searching for Shipwrecks

Antiviral Microgel - Lightweight. Portable. Recyclable. And tiny bubbles of jello. This microgel has it all, plus a 99.9 percent bacterial and viral kill rate.

Antiviral Microgel

Control - It takes all this (and more) for computational fluid dynamics research conducted by Michigan Tech mechanical engineering students and researchers.

Control

Antiviral Microgel - Here’s what is going to replace the brown bottle in your medicine cabinet. A powder that becomes tiny bubbles of jello generates enough hydrogen peroxide to kick bacterial and viral infections.

Antiviral Microgel

Refinery for Tenacity - Michigan Technological University’s thought leaders share their ideas to prepare students and the University for a rapidly changing future. Janet Callahan, dean of the College of Engineering, explains the value of a growth mindset.

Refinery for Tenacity

Analyze Aging Aerosols - Michigan Tech chemists demonstrate that aerosol particles that originate from wildfire combustion exist for longer periods in the atmosphere, undergoing less oxidization than previously thought. (Lynn and Claudio Mazzoleni photo).

Analyze Aging Aerosols

Seasons on Innovation Shore - Researchers at the Great Lakes Research Center bring in the buoys before the ice arrives.

Seasons on Innovation Shore

Sleep = Health - Welcome to Dreamland—Michigan Tech's new lab for sleep research continues our work to understand the relationship between sleep and cardiovascular health.

Sleep = Health

Quiet Innovation - Carbon nanotubes that shush loud heating and air conditioning systems get stretched into place—and save 90 percent of the space taken up by current noise mufflers. Read more on Michigan Tech Unscripted.

Quiet Innovation

Duct tape. Cardboard. Paddles - Huskies design, duct tape and race 50+ cardboard boats—part of Michigan Tech Homecoming festivities this weekend.

Duct tape. Cardboard. Paddles

Time to Visit - The best way to know if Michigan Tech is right for you? Experience it. Fall Open House is Saturday.

Time to Visit

Global Beats, International Treats - The tastiest festival of the year is here. The 29th annual Parade of Nations begins at 11 a.m. Saturday.

Global Beats, International Treats

Reduced Tuition - The National Service Graduate Tuition Rate (NSGTR) provides reduced tuition for military service personnel, Peace Corps, AmeriCorps and VISTA volunteers.

Reduced Tuition

Together Again - Summer's end brings new beginnings. The Michigan Tech Women's Leadership Council comes together at Prince's Point, our waterfront hangout, for toasted marshmallows and the warmth of friends familiar and new.

Together Again

Welcome Home, Huskies! - About 1,300 first-year students arrive for Move-in Weekend, the unofficial start of the 2018-19 academic year. More than 200 faculty, staff and student volunteers are on hand to unload vehicles, carry belongings, answer questions and make the newest members of the pack feel right at home.

Welcome Home, Huskies!

Maritime Autonomy Research - On August 10, Michigan Tech unveiled its new Maritime Autonomy Research Site, the first freshwater testbed of its kind in the world.

Maritime Autonomy Research

Flood Changes Research - The Keweenaw landscape has changed since the June 17 flood. So has the work of Michigan Tech graduate student researchers.

Flood Changes Research

MARS - The unveiling of the Smart Ships Coalition's Maritime Autonomy Research Site (MARS), the first freshwater testbed of its kind in the world at Michigan Technological University’s Great Lakes Research Center (GLRC).

MARS

Bernard Family Clock Tower - Dedication ceremonies were held August 2 for the Bernard Family Clock Tower, located on the Michigan Tech campus. The clock tower was made possible by a generous donation from the William ’69 and Ilene Bernard Jr. family. The Bernard family's gift also established the William J. Bernard Jr. Family Endowed Scholarship Fund.

Bernard Family Clock Tower