September 5, 2025

When students spend all summer getting ready to search for Blizzard in Chassell, of course, it decides to rain! The forecast for today calls for rain and high winds, but we don’t cancel K-Day — we pack up and move inside!

K-Day's new indoor location is the Student Development Complex (SDC) Multipurpose Room, where over 220 student organizations will showcase what they are all about. Food, inflatables and fun will all continue in a modified form, but our Husky Spirit will remain the same!

K-Day will still run from 1-5 p.m. Students are encouraged to scatter their arrival times in order to decrease congestion in our indoor space.

MTU faculty and staff, please encourage your students to join in the fun!

Michigan Tech is excited to share that the Department of Public Safety and Police Services has relocated to a new home. You can now find them on the first floor of the Harold Meese Center (at the corner of Houghton Avenue and Pearl Street, directly across from Jim’s Food Mart).

Additionally, Environmental Health and Safety (EHS) and Risk Management have moved to the second floor of the Meese Center.

Please update your records and stop by the Meese Center if you need assistance.

Also, watch for a future Tech Today announcement with info about an upcoming open house.

Address:

Harold Meese Center
1304 E. Houghton Ave.
Houghton, MI 49931

Phone:
In case of emergency, please call 911.

• Public Safety and Police Services: 906-487-2216
• Environmental Health and Safety: 906-487-2118
• Risk Management: 906-487-2217

Proposals are being requested for Michigan Tech's Century II Campaign Endowed Equipment Fund (C2E2) program, an internal award of the Vice President for Research Office.

The C2E2 program is aimed at providing funds to purchase equipment that will have a campuswide impact and improve the lives of faculty, staff and students.

Proposals are due no later than 4 p.m. on Oct. 9, and must be submitted electronically per the program guidelines. Late submissions will not be accepted.

For more information and proposal submission requirements, visit the C2E2 program page.

If you have any questions, email the C2E2 program at c2e2-l@mtu.edu.

Career Services is excited to be hosting the 2025 Fall Career Fair Forged by Nucor on Sept. 23! As in previous years, Interview Day will follow on Sept. 24, and we need your support.

To ensure the best possible interview experience for both students and employers, we are requesting the use of office and room spaces across campus. Please submit any available rooms to be included in our Interview Day schedule by completing the Rooms for Interviews form.

Each semester, more than a thousand individual interviews take place on campus following Career Fair. Your help in making this day successful is greatly appreciated!

If you have any questions, feel free to contact us at CareerFair@mtu.edu.

Tickets sales begin today, Sept. 5, for the Rozsa's 2025/26 Visual and Performing Arts Season, including an exciting year of performances as part of the Michigan Tech Music Series and Michigan Tech Theatre Series. Make sure to reserve your tickets early! And don't forget to mark your calendars for this year's Michigan Tech Art Series!

Michigan Tech Theatre Series:

• Men on Boats: A unique and true(ish) comical history of an expedition traversing the Grand Canyon.
• Haunted Smelter: Descent into Madness: This year's Haunted Smelter Tour is sure to make visitors squirm.
• Proof: This popular mystery production coming to Michigan Tech in February will keep audiences on the edge of their seats.

Michigan Tech Music Series:

• Starts off with Music in the Mine and New Music Detroit featuring the best music you haven't heard yet.
• The Superior Wind Symphony moves and grooves to joyous dance music with Let's Dance, revisits film scores from popular movies at Night at the Movies, and revisits classic symphonies old and new with Classics and Contemporaries.
• The Choirs of Michigan Tech will perform Rachmaninoff Vespers, taking on Sergei Rachmaninoff's "All-Night Vigil (Vespers)."
• The Huskies Pep Band and Michigan Tech Jazz ensembles are ready as always to entertain with numerous performances throughout the year.
• The Keweenaw Symphony Orchestra's Gods, Ghosts, and Legends will dedicate an entire concert to the works of Richard Wagner this fall.
• Mahler Resurrection Symphony closes the season next spring, featuring the KSO, Michigan Tech Choirs, musicians from the Marquette Symphony Orchestra, and soloists Lara Neves and Kathryn Summersett. With over 200 musicians on stage, this will be the largest symphony ever performed in the Rozsa Center.

Michigan Tech Art Series:

• Free to the public, this fall's Nanowonder gallery exhibit explores the microscopic world with help from neighboring departments on campus.
• The Rozsa Galleries will also host Through the Quiet Hours, an exhibit exploring nighttime photography in combination with a visiting National Geographic photographer.
• Additional art shows highlight historic struggles for human rights as well as thought-provoking artwork created by students throughout the academic year.

More Information:
Check out the Rozsa’s full season of events. Mark your calendars and get your tickets early!

Get Tickets:
Tickets for the Visual and Performing Arts Season events are on sale now. Purchase tickets online, by calling 906-487-1906, or in person at the Rozsa Box Office. All events are free or Pay As You’re Able.

Find ticket purchasing tips and troubleshooting on our Ticket Information page.

Navigating Difficult Conversations is a two-part workshop offered on Oct. 7 and Oct. 9 from 10 a.m. to noon each day. Participants are required to attend both sessions, as the information builds a knowledge base developed throughout the workshops.

This in-person workshop is open to all Michigan Tech faculty and staff. It has been revised from previous years, so if you've participated in a previous workshop, please feel free to sign up again. Please complete the registration form to save your seat. Registrants will receive a calendar invitation with details.

For more information, please email Equal Opportunity Compliance and Title IX at eocompliance@mtu.edu or call us at 906-487-3310.

Customized Navigating Difficult Conversations training is available for Michigan Tech groups and/or departments upon request.

The next guest speaker in the Department of Biomedical Engineering (BioMed) Seminar Series will present today, Sept. 5, at 3 p.m. in Chem Sci 102 and virtually via Zoom.

Join the BioMed Seminar on Zoom.

Arun K. Kota from North Carolina State University will present "Tailoring Solid-Liquid Interfaces: Fundamentals & Applications."

Read Kota's abstract and bio at the University Events Calendar.

The Michigan Economic Development Corporation mentioned Michigan Tech in a story recapping the state’s leadership in the automotive sector. The story listed MTU as a participating institution in the Michigander Scholars Program, which offers scholarships to technology and engineering students who accept a qualified job in the state’s mobility and technology sectors.

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EurekAlert and Southwest Research Institute listed Michigan Tech as a co-developer of a truck engine that received a 2025 R&D 100 Award from R&D World Magazine. The award recognized the “Low Mass and High Efficiency (LMHE) Medium-Duty Truck Engine” project as one of the year’s most significant innovations.

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Traverse City’s Ticker mentioned Michigan Tech in a story announcing a Sept. 12 groundbreaking date for the Freshwater Research and Innovation Center. MTU is a partner in the center’s creation.

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The Harbor Country News in Michigan City, Indiana, listed Michigan Tech as one of the institutions participating in College Night at Lake Michigan College’s campus in Benton Harbor, Michigan.

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MLive mentioned Michigan Tech in a story listing Houghton as one of Northern Michigan’s most beautiful places to visit during the fall.

Banner Maintenance on Sunday

A Banner production system maintenance window is scheduled for Sunday, Sept. 7, from 7 a.m. to 4 p.m. The following production services will be unavailable during that time:

• apps.mtu.edu
• Banner
• Banner Self Service
• Degreeworks
• Experience
• MyMichiganTech
• ASPIRE
• Course Tools
• OAP Rental System
• Oracle Reports
• UC4/Appworx
• Virtual Cashiering
• WebFocus

If you have any questions or concerns, we can help. Email IT it-help@mtu.edu or call 906-487-1111.

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Fischer Maintenance on Sunday

On Sunday, Sept. 7, from 8 a.m. to noon, Michigan Tech IT will be performing quarterly maintenance on the Fischer mylogin system, which requires a full shutdown and restart.

During this maintenance, password resets and mylogin.mtu.edu will be unavailable.

If you have any questions, we can help. Email IT at it-help@mtu.edu or call 906-487-1111.

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First Friday Social

Kick off the semester by joining the Graduate Student Government (GSG) for our traditional First Friday Social! Come and enjoy good food, refreshments and music!

The social is planned today, Sept. 5, from 4-6 p.m. on the Grad Commons Patio. The event is open to Michigan Tech grad students, faculty, staff, family and friends. No RSVP is required.

For any questions or concerns, please contact GSG Social Chair Victoria Santillan at gsg-social@mtu.edu.

Event Details:

• What: First Friday Social
• When: Friday, Sept. 5, from 4-6 p.m.
• Where: Grad Commons Patio, located at 207 East Street (across US-41 from the Van Pelt and Opie Library)

View the First Friday Social Flyer.

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Biological Sciences Office Closed This Afternoon

The Department of Biological Sciences office will be closed in the afternoon today, Sept. 5, from 1-5 p.m. for a department retreat.

The office will reopen on Monday, Sept. 8, at 8 a.m.

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Environmental Engineering Graduate Seminar with Andy Erickson

The next Environmental Engineering Graduate Seminar will take place at 3 p.m. on Monday, Sept. 8, in GLRC 202. Attendance is also invited via Zoom.

Join the Seminar on Zoom (use password 856499).

Andy Erickson, Ph.D., P.E., stormwater research manager in the St. Anthony Falls Laboratory at the University of Minnesota, will present "Five Things We Learned about Road Salt Impacts and Alternatives."

Read Erickson's abstract and bio on the University Events Calendar.

To have your event automatically appear, please submit them to the University Events Calendar.

Women's Volleyball vs Missouri - St. Louis

Friday, September 5, 10 a.m.–12 p.m. | Lebanon, IL

Women's Volleyball vs Missouri - St. Louis Lebanon, IL

Keweenaw Day 2025

Friday, September 5, 1 p.m.–4 p.m. | SDC Multipurpose Room

***Due to inclement weather forecasts, K-Day will be moved to the SDC's Multipurpose Room*** K-Day, short for Keweenaw Day, is an annual tradition at Michigan Tech held on the Friday of the week of Labor Day. It is a Registered Student Organization fair with around 200 groups in attendance. Each year on K-Day, classes release at noon so our students can learn about ways to get involved and connected at Tech. There will be two shuttle routes starting at 12:30 PM and running until 5 PM. Shuttle Route 1 will pick up and drop off at the Memorial Union Building, Douglass Houghton Hall, East Hall, and the SDC. Shuttle Route 2 will pick up and drop off at McNair Hall/Hillside, Wadsworth Hall, Memorial Union Building, and the SDC.

Tailoring Solid-Liquid Interfaces: Fundamentals & Applications

Friday, September 5, 3 p.m.–3 p.m. | Chemical Sciences and Engineering Building, 102

Biomedical Engineering Research Seminar Arun K. Kota, Ph.D. North Caroline State University Abstract Solid-liquid interfaces are ubiquitous in nature and technology, ranging from droplets on plant leaves and animal skins to blood interacting with biomedical devices to vapors condensing on a condenser. The past two decades have seen significant advances in understanding and tailoring solid-liquid interfaces. In this talk, I will discuss the fundamental physical and chemical principles behind tailoring solid-liquid interfaces. Building on these fundamental principles, I will present examples of superomniphobic surfaces, which are extremely repellent to virtually all liquids. Then, I will present a few examples of stimuli-responsive surfaces with applications in protective clothing and liquidhandling robots. Next, I will discuss the design of novel and counter-intuitive surfaces with applications in anti-thrombotic biomedical implants. Finally, I will wrap up with the design of surfaces for enhanced condensation and anti-icing . Bio Dr. Kota received BS in Chemical Engineering from Andhra University (India), MS in Chemical Engineering from Clarkson University, PhD in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Maryland and was a postdoctoral researcher in Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Michigan. With expertise in surface and interfacial science, he conducts interdisciplinary research that is both fundamental and applied.

Women's Volleyball vs Southwestern Oklahoma State

Friday, September 5, 5:30 p.m.–7:30 p.m. | Lebanon, IL

Women's Volleyball vs Southwestern Oklahoma State Lebanon, IL

Dock Days with the SigEps

Friday, September 5, 6 p.m.–7 p.m. | East Houghton Waterfront Park

Come hang out at the docks with the SigEps, grab some free food, and play yard games with the guys!

Sorority Recruitment Kick-Off

Friday, September 5, 6 p.m.–7 p.m. | Memorial Union Building, Ballroom

Kick off sorority recruitment with a fruitful info session! Come get the juicy details on what sorority life is all about—sisterhood, service, leadership, and more. Meet the recruitment counselors and Panhellenic Board members, ask questions, and find out which bunch is the right pick for you. It’s going to be peachy keen—don’t miss it! Join us Friday night (after K-Day) on September 5th at 6 p.m. in the Memorial Union Building Ballroom. Register for recruitment: https://mycampusdirector2.com/signup/

Women's Soccer vs Minnesota Duluth

Friday, September 5, 6 p.m.–8 p.m. | Sherman Field

Women's Soccer vs Minnesota Duluth Houghton, Mich.

Bonfire at Breakers

Friday, September 5, 7 p.m.–9 p.m. | Good Shepard

Come meet students involved in LCM! Join us for s'mores and campfire songs. Rides will be provided from Good Shepard, leaving at 7pm, or else come find us at Breakers Beach.

Casino Night

Friday, September 5, 7 p.m.–8 p.m. | Triangle Fraternity House

Play poker, Blackjack, and more while getting to know the brothers of Triangle Fraternity