April 5, 2022

The Diversity Council is seeking nominations for faculty and staff deserving of the 2022 Michigan Tech Diversity Award. Nominations are due April 29.

Nominees contribute to diversity, equity, inclusion and sense of belonging (DEIS) on campus through exemplary leadership and actions, demonstrating a commitment to DEIS in areas such as:

• Recruitment and retention efforts
• Teaching
• Research
• Culturally responsive mentorship
• Inclusive programming
• Diversity literacy
• Community outreach activities

The award recipient will receive a $2,500 award and will be honored during a University awards dinner held in September. More information, criteria and nomination instructions are listed on the Diversity Award webpage.

The University Senate will convene Meeting 673 at 5:30 p.m. tomorrow (April 6) in Dow 642. 

Those within the University community unable to attend in person have the option to attend via Zoom. Please note: You will need to log in to your MTU Zoom account to join the virtual meeting.

Senators are responsible for making their constituents aware of the agenda for this meeting. Senators who are unable to attend should arrange for their alternates to attend in their place. 

View the agenda to Meeting 673.

ChemStores is now offering reduced prices on all of our COVID supplies.

Disposable face masks are now $10 for 50, cloth coverings are $5 for 10 and disinfectant wipes (package of 160) are now $9.16.

Please see our webpage for our full list of COVID products. These items will not be restocked, so get them while they last.

We can accept University index, cash or check. Please contact us at chemstores@mtu.edu with any questions.

Menu for Thursday (April 7):

• St. Louis Ribs with Kansas City BBQ Sauce
• Baked Cheese Grits (Gluten Free, Vegetarian)
• Sweet & Smoky Baked Beans (Gluten Free, Vegan)
• Lemon Herb Fingerling Potato Salad (Gluten Free, Vegetarian)
• Pepper Jack Mac and Cheese (Gluten Free, Vegetarian)
• Memphis Style Coleslaw

Dining Services presents this week's C-Cubed Luncheon being held from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Thursday (April 7) in the Memorial Union Alumni Lounge (MUB 107). All faculty and staff, along with their guests, are invited.

The C-Cubed lunch buffet menus are created by executive chef Eric Karvonen and prepared by Karvonen and his culinary team. As the name suggests, the meals are meant to foster conversation, community and collegiality. Attendees may bring their lunch instead of purchasing the buffet. Fruit-infused water, coffee, tea, cookies and fruit are available free to all attendees.

The buffet lunch is $12 per person. Cash, credit cards and gift cards are accepted. Gift cards can be purchased in the Memorial Union office, MUB 101. You can submit C-Cubed feedback using this Google form. To join the C-Cubed Google group and receive weekly menus, email business-support@mtu.edu.

This week, the Rozsa Center for the Performing Arts will be presenting a thought-provoking dinner theatre production of Larissa FastHorse's "The Thanksgiving Play." Join in for an evening of food, satire and conversation.

About the Show:
How hard can it be to celebrate Thanksgiving and Native American Heritage Month at the same time? Good intentions collide with absurd assumptions in FastHorse’s wickedly funny satire, as a troupe of teaching artists scrambles to create a show that somehow manages to celebrate both while avoiding any cultural missteps.

Schedule:

Thursday, April 7 | Friday, April 8 | Saturday, April 9 

For every performance, dinner is served at 6:45 p.m. and the show starts at 7 p.m. View the menu.

Following the show, we will have a panel discussion focused on the diversity and inclusion topics demonstrated in the play.

Tickets:
Tickets are reserved by table. To ensure that we have your dinner ready for you, tickets must be purchased in advance. Prices include your dinner, ticket to the performance, and after-show discussion.

Full Table (four tickets): $120
Half Table (two tickets): $60 for the general public / $20 for students with the Experience Tech Fee.

M.S. in Cybersecurity candidate Charles Warren will present his final master's defense at 4:30 p.m. Monday (April 11) in Rekhi 101 and virtually via Google Meet.

Warren's talk is titled “An Analysis of Compressive Convolutional Autoencoders for Image Archiving in Medical Informatics.”

Warren is advised by Guy Hembroff.

Read the post on the Computing News Blog.

M.S. in Electrical Engineering candidate Chelsey Spitzner will present their master's defense at 3 p.m. April 14 in EERC 508.

Spitzner's defense is titled "Laboratory Experiments for Demonstrating ROS."

Spitzner is advised by Christopher Middlebrook.

The Department of Engineering Fundamentals (EF) is conducting a faculty search. Please join us for the active and collaborative first-year engineering lesson by candidate Jennifer Lovely.

The lesson will be held at 10 a.m. Friday (April 8) via Zoom.

All are welcome to attend and participate.

The Department of Chemical Engineering (ChE) would like to invite you to attend the seminar given by Tina Jeoh from 10-11 a.m. Friday (April 8).

Jeoh will give a seminar on "Overcoming Cellulose Recalcitrance by Understanding Interfacial Enzyme Hydrolysis Kinetics" in Chem Sci 201. The seminar can be attended in person with limited capacity or remotely via Zoom. After the seminar, a recording will be available upon request.

Jeoh is currently a professor in the Biological and Agricultural Engineering Department at the University of California Davis. She earned her B.S. and M.S. in biological systems at Virginia Tech, her Ph.D. in biological and environmental engineering from Cornell University, and conducted her postdoctoral training at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Golden, Colorado.

Michigan Tech outdoor track and field finished two days of competition in the Spartan Invitational, hosted by Michigan State University on Saturday (April 2) at Ralph Young Field.

Through chilly conditions, the Huskies posted strong showings in multiple events.

"Overall, we had a great day today," said head coach Kristina Owen. "There were a number of fantastic performances to highlight and I was pleased with how we competed."

Read more and see individual results at the Michigan Tech Athletics website.

Michigan Tech women's tennis defeated Saginaw Valley State University 6-1 at Gates Tennis Center on Sunday (April 3) for their first conference win of the season.

The Huskies took all three doubles sets, then carried momentum into five singles victories to improve to 1-6 overall, 1-2 GLIAC.

"We played well and it was great to get a win in our first home match of the season," said head coach Kristin Yep. "The team went out there and took care of business today."

Read more at the Michigan Tech Athletics website.

Dennis Livesay (CC/AC) and Tim Havens (CS/ICC/GLRC) discussed cutting-edge computer projects at Michigan Tech and the Computing[MTU] Showcase on the weekly Copper Country Today radio program. 

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About 50 Huskies participated in a polar plunge at the Houghton Waterfront Park covered by WLUC TV6.

The event was organized by Michigan Tech fraternity Sigma Phi Epsilon and sorority Delta Zeta. Junior Timothy Stachowski and Dean of Students Wallace Southerland III were quoted in the story.

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The Daily Mining Gazette ran a story on the return of the annual Friends of the Michigan Tech Library Book Sale on March 31 and April 1.

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A Twitter exchange between the Michigan Tech lacrosse club and the Mackinac Bridge Authority was reported by radio station 98.7-FM WFGR of Grand Rapids. Club members tweeted several unorthodox suggestions for clearing ice from the Mackinac Bridge as they waited for it to reopen Sunday (April 3).

The Huskies were returning from a game against Ferris State University in Big Rapids.

Jannah Tumey (EdO/RISE) is the principal investigator (PI) on a project that has received a $13,918 other sponsored activities contract from the Detroit Area Pre-College Engineering Program.

The project is titled "DAPCEP Spring 2022 Computing Virtual Series."

Charles Wallace (CC/RISE) is a co-PI on this project.

SRC-Squared: Sustainability Strategic Planning

The Sustainable and Resilient Communities Social Network and Research Collaborative (SRC-Squared) invites you to join our April meeting from 10-11 a.m. tomorrow (April 6).

At this meeting, Director of Sustainability and Resilience Alan Turnquist will give a brief update on sustainability strategic planning and lead a discussion on needs and opportunities for developing curricula and research.

We will meet in person in Dow 875 and livestream the meeting via Zoom.

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CFRES Lecturer Candidate Seminar

The College of Forest Resources and Environmental Science (CFRES) would like to invite you to attend a presentation by lecturer in applied forestry candidate Michael Tiller at 11 a.m. today (April 5) in Noblet 144.

Tiller's presentation is titled "Teaching Seminar: Natural Resource Management Lecturer and Capstone and Teaching Philosophy." 

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

Teal Ribbons

Tuesday, April 5, 12:00 a.m.–11:45 p.m. | Campus!

Have you seen teal ribbons? Help raise awareness for Sexual Assault Awareness Month by scanning the QR code and participating in SAVE and Title IX's Octopi project and get the...

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Tech Arts Festival

Tuesday, April 5, 12:00 a.m.–11:45 p.m. | Memorial Union Buliding

Tech Arts Fest - A Day in the Keweenaw – Join us in celebrating the beauty of our snowy home with the Michigan Tech Arts Festival, from Monday, April 4 to Saturday, April...

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Examining the Aufbau Principle through Computational Chemistry, Day 1

Tuesday, April 5, 9–11 a.m. | Memorial Union Building (MUB), Ballrooms B and C

As part of the Computing[MTU] showcase, April 4-6, 2022, a two-day workshop with Irene Metz will take place Tuesday, April 5, 9-11 am, and Wednesday, April 6, 1:45-3:30 pm....

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PhD Defense: Adikari Mudiyanselage Dhananjani Nisansala Eriyaga

Tuesday, April 5, 9:30–10:30 a.m.

Chemistry Advisor: Shiyue Fang Non-Chromatographic Oligonucleotide Purification and Automated Polyethylene Glycol Synthesis Attend Virtually:...

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Pathways of Women in STEM: Resiliency, Advocacy, and Inclusive Success

Tuesday, April 5, 11:30 a.m.–2:30 p.m. | Memorial Union Building (MUB), Alumni Lounge A (Room 107A)

Women face pressures and challenges - both from within and externally - in their personal and professional lives in academic science, technology, engineering and mathematics...

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PhD Defense: Natalia Parra Alvarez

Tuesday, April 5, 2:30 p.m.–3:30 p.m.

Chemical Engineering Advisor: Surendra Kawatra Reverse Cationic Flotation of Hematite Attend Virtually: https://michigantech.zoom.us/j/82335163128

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PhD Defense: Ariana Smies

Tuesday, April 5, 3 p.m.–4 p.m. | Minerals and Materials Engineering Building (M&M), 610

Biomedical Engineering Co-advisors: Sean Kirkpatrick and Rupak Rajachar An Antimicrobial Polydopamine Surface Coating to Reduce Biofouling on Telemetry Tags Used in Marine...

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Session 4: Machine Learning, the National Laboratory, and Counterterrorism: Alumni and Industry

Tuesday, April 5, 3:15 p.m.–4:30 p.m. | Memorial Union Building (MUB), Ballroom A

Session 4: Machine Learning, the National Laboratory, and Counterterrorism: Alumni and Industry April 5, 3:15-4:30 p.m., MUB Ballroom A Ian Cummings, Postdoctoral...

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Youth Indoor Rock Climbing Spring 2022 Session 3

Tuesday, April 5, 4:00 p.m.–4:50 p.m. | Student Development Complex (SDC), Climbing Wall

Is your child looking for a new challenge? Sign up now for the OAP Youth Indoor Rock Climbing Class and let them climb our wall! We try to meet each participant at their level...

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GSG General Body Meeting

Tuesday, April 5, 5:15 p.m.–7:15 p.m. | EERC 103

Bi-weekly meetings of the general body of Michigan Tech's Graduate Student Government. These will be conducted in Hybrid mode from EERC 103 and via Zoom until further notice....

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Adult Huskies Swim Lessons Spring 2022 Session 3

Tuesday, April 5, 5:30 p.m.–6:20 p.m. | Student Development Complex (SDC), Pool

Adult Huskies Swim Lessons provides aquatic education for the beginner to the intermediate swimmer who is looking to become more comfortable in the water and learn the...

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Adult Huskies Swim Training Spring 2022 Session 3

Tuesday, April 5, 5:30 p.m.–6:20 p.m. | Student Development Complex (SDC), Pool

Adult Huskies Swim Training provides additional attention and competitive guidance to swimmers ages 18 and older who are looking to improve their swimming skills and fitness...

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Monthly General Meeting _ Spring 2022

Tuesday, April 5, 6 p.m.–7 p.m. | Chem Sci. 211

Hi folks, This mail serves to notify us that we will be having our monthly general meeting on the last Wednesday of the month 6 - 7 PM at Chem Sci. 211 or via Zoom. Feel...

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Open Rock Climbing

Tuesday, April 5, 6 p.m.–8 p.m. | Student Development Complex (SDC), Multipurpose Room Climbing Wall

All ages (we can allow all ages to climb as long as we have the proper fitting equipment). No need to sign up, just stop by the Climbing Wall between 6 and 8 pm Monday through...

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Open Log Rolling

Tuesday, April 5, 8:30 p.m.–10:30 p.m. | Student Development Complex (SDC), Pool

Looking for something new for you or your child to stay active? Sign up now for the OAP Open Log Rolling and test your skills on the log! We try to meet each participant at...

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Computing[MTU] Showcase

April 5, all day | Memorial Union Building (MUB), Ballrooms A, B, and C

The Institute of Computing and Cybersystems and the College of Computing will present a showcase of faculty and student research April 4-6, 2022, in the Rozsa Center and the...