June 2, 2026

Transportation Services is sending emails to all Michigan Tech parking permit holders about upcoming changes to campus parking. The messages are customized for each group of permit holders — faculty/staff, residential students and commuter students — to explain the specific changes relevant to each group.

Detailed information about all parking changes, including updated parking maps, can be found on the Fiscal Year 2027 Campus Parking Adjustments webpage.

We understand that you may have questions about the upcoming changes. Please contact us at parking@mtu.edu with any questions. Inquiries regarding parking adjustments will be addressed in the order received.

Thank you for your cooperation and support as we work to balance parking access and availability across campus.

Michigan Tech will begin demolition of the Hamar House in early June. All building occupants have been relocated, and environmental abatement work has already been completed.

Following demolition, site work will begin to expand Parking Lot 14, adding 53 new parking spaces for faculty and staff. Lot 14 expansion is expected to be completed in August.

Once demolition begins, Transportation Services will temporarily close Lot 14 and will notify permit holders with detailed parking instructions. During construction, nearby academic buildings may experience unavoidable noise and vibrations from heavy equipment and demolition activities. Traffic flow around the area will also be temporarily affected.

Pedestrian access outside the immediate parking lot area is expected to remain largely unaffected. However, pedestrians are encouraged to please remain alert when traveling through or near construction zones, to respect barricades and to follow all posted safety instructions on signage.

If you have any questions regarding this project, please contact facilities@mtu.edu.

Michigan Tech’s Formula SAE Enterprise team competed June 16-20 in the Formula SAE Internal Combustion (IC) competition at Michigan International Speedway, finishing 20th overall among 114 teams — and first among all eight competing Michigan universities.

The week opened strong: The car cleared all technical inspections and performance requirements on the first attempt, and the team delivered solid design and cost presentations to competition judges.

Dynamic event day brought an early test of character. After clocking a fourth-place time in the acceleration event, the car spun and struck a wall. The driver walked away unharmed, and the team had the car repaired and back on track within two hours, completing every remaining dynamic event.

The comeback drew praise from parents and spectators, who commented on the team’s remarkable resilience. Team advisor Jim DeClerck (MAE) agreed. “I am proud about the way the team gathered to support each other and work the problem,” he said.

Congratulations, Huskies!

Eric Halonen is retiring from Michigan Tech after 29 years of dedicated service. To honor his remarkable contributions and lasting impact, Advancement and Alumni Engagement invites the campus and community members, alumni and friends to a retirement celebration.

Join us on June 23 from 2-4 p.m. in the Ford Conference Room at the Michigan Tech Alumni Center. Hors d’oeuvres and light refreshments will be served.

Thank you for helping us honor Eric’s remarkable dedication to our University!

Fiber crafters from the Michigan Tech community! If you knit, crochet, spin, embroider, cross-stitch, bead, weave or do any other kind of craft involving yarn, cloth, fiber or string, this is the meetup for you. Feel free to bring your lunch as well as your works in progress. We welcome students, staff, faculty, and the community — the more the merrier!

We meet at the Van Pelt and Opie Library every first and third Wednesday of the month from 12-1 p.m. Meetings will be in Library 216.

Lucy Gibbs ’26 (M.S. Industrial Heritage and Archaeology) and master’s student Katherine Loff-Peterson (sustainable communities), along with seven other students and faculty from Michigan Tech, are co-authors of a paper recently published in Industrial Archaeology Review, the flagship journal of industrial archaeology.

The paper, titled “D. Morgan Rees: A Welsh Industrial Archaeologist for Welsh Industrial Heritage”, draws upon archival research undertaken during Michigan Tech’s 2025 study abroad program to Wales to explore a relatively unknown figure in contemporary Welsh history. The authors illustrate the connections between the emergence of industrial archaeology as a field and the prominence of industrial heritage throughout Wales and beyond today.

Jennifer Protheroe-Jones from Museum Wales is also a co-author of the paper.

University Archivist Lindsay Hiltunen (VPOL) attended the Governor's Appointee Reception in Lansing on May 19 as an invited guest. Gov. Gretchen Whitmer made it a point of business to personally thank and celebrate each of her gubernatorial appointees during the special event, held at the Impression 5 Science Center a few blocks from the Michigan State Capitol. 

Hiltunen received a reappointment from Whitmer to serve a second term on the Michigan State Historical Records Advisory Board (MSHRAB) from February 2023 to December 2026. She was first appointed to the board under former Gov. Rick Synder. 

The MSHRAB acts as a coordinating body to facilitate cooperation and communication among historical records repositories and information agencies within the state, and as a state-level review body for grant proposals that meet National Historical Publications and Records Commission grant program guidelines. 

In addition to meeting the governor, receiving a gift, and a photo opportunity, Hiltunen also got to network with colleagues from across the state. On behalf of the Michigan Tech Archives, congratulations, Lindsay, and thank you for your service to the state of Michigan!

ClickOnDetroit mentioned Michigan Tech in a story about Ann Arbor’s first test of rubberized asphalt made from recycled tires. The city is collaborating with MTU to evaluate the pavement’s durability and potential environmental benefits.

My UP Now mentioned Michigan Tech in a story about recipients of the 2026 Keweenaw Heritage Grant program. The Michigan Tech Archives received $15,000 for improvements and outreach related to its Industrial Heritage and Archaeology library collections.

WLUC TV6’s “Upper Michigan Today” featured Michigan Tech alum and author Hannah Weeks ’17 (B.S. Geological Engineering), who discussed her hockey romance book series published under the pen name Hannah Layne. The series is set in Houghton and inspired in part by Weeks’ time at MTU.

Mathematical Sciences Workshop: Applied and Numerical Mathematics

A free three-day Workshop on Applied and Numerical Mathematics for Michigan Tech graduate and postdoctoral students, researchers and faculty in all STEM fields will be hosted by the Department of Mathematical Sciences beginning Monday, June 8, and running through next Wednesday, June 10. All sessions will run from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. in Noblet G002. Refreshments will be provided.

The workshop will bring together leading international experts from across the field of numerical analysis with a central focus on high-order methods for solving partial differential equations. Structured with a strong educational emphasis, sessions are specifically aimed at graduate students and early-career researchers in STEM disciplines. Mornings will be devoted to lectures on modern high-accuracy numerical techniques. Afternoons will feature research talks covering a broad range of topics, including recent advances in the discretization of differential and integral operators, methods based on rational functions, radial basis functions, finite difference approaches and more.

Please spread the word and register to help us plan for refreshments!

This workshop is funded by generous gifts from Igor Kliakhandler, the Department of Mathematical Sciences at Michigan Tech and the Department of Applied Mathematics at the University of Colorado Boulder.

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