June 28, 2021

In her guest blog, Erin Matas, director of the Van Pelt and Opie Library, reflects on Pride Month, the Stonewall Riots, and what it means to celebrate these events’ 50th anniversary.

“It’s 1969,” Matas writes. "Serving alcohol is illegal in disorderly businesses — and the presence of gay folks automatically categorizes your bar or club as disorderly.”

Read the full guest blog — and learn how a police raid on The Stonewall Inn on June 28, 1969, spurred national and global awareness — on the Diversity and Inclusion Newsblog.

In keeping with recently updated University, state and federal guidelines, the Michigan Tech Student Development Complex (SDC), Gates Tennis Center and Tech Trails are adjusting facility guidelines.

On June 22, Michigan Tech announced a move to a Health and Safety Level One.

Notable Level One changes:

• Face coverings are no longer required for any individual, although those who wish to continue to wear them are encouraged to do so.
• Daily symptom monitoring via the MTU Flex Portal for employees, students, and visitors is no longer required, but we recommend people continue to monitor their symptoms. For students, access to Canvas will no longer be linked to symptom monitoring.
• All capacity limits are lifted.

The Michigan Tech Recreation staff encourages all patrons to please continue frequent handwashing (especially before and after meals) and hand sanitization, and receive a COVID-19 vaccination.

The SDC is open to current Michigan Tech students, members and action pass holders. SDC membership and locker sales for the general public will resume on July 1. Daily passes and action passes will not be put back on sale for the time being.

Read the full press release on the Michigan Tech Recreation website.

Central Receiving reminds the campus community to include as much information as possible on the shipping label when shipping University purchases to campus.

To ensure timely delivery of purchases directly to your department by the shipper, please be sure to provide the vendor with the following information to be included on the shipping label:

• Your Complete Name
• Building Name
• Room Number
• 1400 Townsend Drive, Houghton, MI 49931

Please recall that Central Receiving does not ship or receive personal packages. Visit our website for additional shipping and receiving information.

For questions or assistance with special receiving or shipping needs, please contact Central Receiving at 906-487-2701.

Staff Service Awards are now ready for pickup. Please stop by the Van Pelt and Opie Library’s first-floor exhibit space from 9-11 a.m. today (June 28) or from 2-4 p.m. tomorrow (June 29) to pick up your award envelope.

Awards not picked up will be delivered by campus mail.

Congratulations once again to those being honored this year for a five-year anniversary date. Thank you for your service and commitment to Michigan Tech.

Tyler Shelast has been named an assistant coach with the Michigan Tech hockey team, head coach Joe Shawhan announced Thursday.

Shelast enters his new role after eight seasons as the strength and conditioning coach. He played for the Huskies from 2004-08.

"I'm excited to announce the hiring of Tyler Shelast," Shawhan said. "Tyler is a high-energy coach that is passionate about Michigan Tech hockey, the University, and our community. I'm looking forward to Tyler sharing his passion on the ice with our players, and in recruiting, helping us re-establish our footprint in his roots of Western Canada."

Read more on the Michigan Tech Athletics website.

The Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (GLIAC) has announced the 2020-21 GLIAC All-Academic and Academic Excellence Teams.

Michigan Tech had 203 student-athletes across GLIAC-sponsored sports recognized for their academic achievement. A total of 139 Huskies had a GPA of 3.5-4.0 and 64 held 3.0-3.49 GPAs.

A total of 2,622 student-athletes were recognized across the GLIAC.

Read more and see the full list of honorees categorized by sport on the Michigan Tech Athletics website.

Trista Vick-Majors (BioSci/GLRC) is the principal investigator on a project that has received a $5,000 research and development grant from the University of Michigan, Michigan Space Grant Consortium.

The project is titled "Shining a Light on Habitability: Biological and Organic Entrapment in Freshwater Ice."

This is a one-year project.

Michigan Tech’s Isle Royale Winter Study, the world’s longest-running predator-prey study, was the subject of a feature article on TVO.org. Rolf Peterson (CFRES) was quoted in the story.

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An article by Jonathan Robins (SS) on how palm oil became the world’s most used fuel source was published by The Conversation.

Get Vaccinated, Continue Washing and Sanitizing Hands

While Michigan Tech is at Health and Safety Level One, face coverings and daily symptom monitoring are no longer required. However, those who wish to continue wearing a face covering are encouraged to do so.

The MTU Flex Task Force also encourages University community members to get their vaccinations and continue with handwashing and hand-sanitizing practices.

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RCR Training Now Required for Funded Undergraduate Researchers

Federal law requires that undergraduate research assistants on funded research projects must complete responsible conduct of research (RCR) training. Accordingly, the Research Integrity Office has created an online RCR course tailored for undergraduate researchers at Michigan Tech.

Undergraduate research assistants can enroll in the RCR training course online and must complete the course by July 14.

Required learning modules in this short course discuss:

• Research Misconduct
• Data Management
• Research with Human Subjects
• Research with Animal Subjects

In addition to these four required modules, 12 optional modules on topics ranging from Authorship to Presentation of Research Findings and Reproducibility of Research Results allow supervisors and students to customize their RCR training.

The overall goals of RCR training are to empower researchers with the ability to make responsible and ethical decisions about their research and to provide researchers with an understanding of common mistakes that can derail an otherwise successful research program.

For more information, contact the Research Integrity Office at 906-487-2902 or researchintegrity@mtu.edu. 

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Tables for Estimating GRA Stipends and Tuition Updated

The Vice President for Research Office has updated the tables used for budgeting graduate student stipends and tuition. These rates are to be used immediately in proposal budgets to external sponsors.

The tuition rates per credit differ between the Engineering/Computer Science and Non-Engineering/Computer Science disciplines, so please remember to take this into account when budgeting for one (1) credit.

The updated stipend and tuition tables can be found online.

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New Husky Orientation

Monday, June 28, 8:00 a.m.–12:30 p.m. | Lakeshore-comm-rm123

Grandparent/Grandchild Scramble

Monday, June 28, 11 a.m. | Portage Lake Golf Course

Grandparent/Grandchild Scramble

UP & Moving Strength Training and High Intensity Interval Training ("HIIT")

Monday, June 28, 5:30 p.m.–6:15 p.m.

We are a group of Michigan Tech graduate students who are focused on improving the health of our community. We are contributing to the COVID-19 response by providing health...

Music in Sacred Spaces: conScience

June 28, all day

conScience: Michigan Tech Chamber Singers, under the direction of Dr. Jared Anderson, present a series of three recorded mini-concerts in historic sacred spaces in the Copper...

Superior Wind Symphony: Reparations

June 28, all day

The Superior Wind Symphony, under the direction of Dr. Michael Christianson, use the unique setting of the 2020-21 academic year to explore the music of Black composers in a...