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.

Roads, Bridges, Culverts - If you took all Michigan's culverts and lined them up, they'd run from Houghton to Miami. Roadsoft helps manage all that infrastructure.

Roads, Bridges, Culverts

Huskies on the Water - Lakers. Surfacing sturgeon. Lava flows and water samples.
Students learn and practice freshwater research aboard the Research Vessel Agassiz.

Huskies on the Water

900 Acres of Proving Grounds - The multidisciplinary Keweenaw Research Center (KRC) is active across a broad spectrum of vehicle development. Originally established by the US Army for deep snow mobility testing, KRC has been involved in military, industrial, and commercial vehicle applications for over 60 years.

900 Acres of Proving Grounds

The Games Begin Fall 2020 - Michigan Tech will be the first public university in the state to offer esports at the varsity level when competition kicks off in fall 2020.

The Games Begin Fall 2020

Taste of Tech - The Class of 2023 was welcomed to campus August 24th by the Michigan Tech Pep Band, introducing a whole new world of Tech Traditions to a fresh crop of Huskies.

Taste of Tech

Michigan's First and Only - Michigan Tech's College of Computing – the first and only college of its kind in the state – launched on July 1, 2019, to answer industry demand for talent in artificial intelligence, software engineering, data science and cybersecurity. This week, its first students arrive.

Michigan's First and Only

Pretty Poop - Researchers analyze what moose and deer eat using microhistology, the study of pelletized fecal matter under microscope to determine what the producer of the poop ate for lunch.

Pretty Poop

Husky Tales - Trail blazers. Music makers. Dream jobs. Michigan Tech Magazine Summer 2019 is here.

Husky Tales

Welcome to Our House - A million visitors pass through the doors of the Student Development Complex every year. The 2019 Michigan Tech Diversity Award winner, Athletic Director Suzanne Sanregret, is committed to making every one of them feel welcome.

Welcome to Our House

Old Tires, New Roads - 2019 Research Award winner Zhanping You takes powdered tire rubber and mixes it into asphalt for cleaner, quieter and durable roads.

Old Tires, New Roads

Huskies in Space! - More than 800 alumni, 106 current team members—and one award-winning satellite. Oculus-ASR rode the SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket into low Earth orbit at 2:30 a.m. Tuesday, June 25. Read the story on Michigan Tech News and Watch the rebroadcast. (Photo credit: Jason Makela)

Huskies in Space!

Huskies in Space! - More than 800 alumni, 106 current team members—and one award-winning satellite that's about to launch. A four-hour window opens at 11:30 p.m. Monday, June 24—and Huskies turn their eyes to the skies as Oculus-ASR rides the SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket into low Earth orbit. Watch the livestream. Go Huskies!

Huskies in Space!

Old Tires, New Roads - 2019 Research Award winner Zhanping You takes powdered tire rubber and mixes it into asphalt for cleaner, quieter and durable roads.

Old Tires, New Roads

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