April 13, 2022

April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month and the time of year to complete your required annual employee training related to Title IX and sexual misconduct.

Monday (April 11), the training was sent out in an email with the subject “Michigan Technological University has assigned you training.” This email contains a link to access the training within Everfi, our training platform. Employees will be given ample time (60 days) to complete the training, which takes about one hour. Topics include responsibilities of Title IX personnel, bystander intervention strategies, appropriate responses to dating and domestic violence, confidentiality, supporting survivors, confidential resources, and referring survivors to our Title IX office.

This harassment and discrimination training joins safety training and IT security training as required campuswide training for all employees.

Be on the lookout for additional programming during April! For more information on Title IX, visit our website.

"I knew I wanted to be a limnologist since the age of four when I bought my first microscope and got grounded for having a pet turtle in the bathtub. Every day after school I would ride my bike down to a few lakes and spend hours observing and studying them. In high school I completed a thesis my senior year on the effects of hydrogen peroxide on lake eutrophication.

I founded Restorative Lake Sciences (RLS) in 2012 in response to a significant need for a lake management and restoration consulting firm that provides objective analysis of lake issues with professional scientific recommendations to restore balance to aquatic ecosystems. The overall goal is to reduce scientific bias through intensive scientific evaluations and management recommendations that are not connected to profits or political agendas."

Read more from Jermalowicz-Jones — and see what advice she has for undergrads — on the Humans of Michigan Tech blog.

Graduate Student Government (GSG) and the Film Board join forces to bring you Grad Movie Weekend!

Catch the story of Django, a former slave turned freeman who just wants to get his wife back.

Showtimes:

• Friday, April 15 — 5:30 p.m., 8:30 p.m., 11:30 p.m.
• Saturday, April 16 — 2:30 p.m., 5:30 p.m.

The movie will be shown on Michigan Tech's campus in Fisher 135.

Free tickets for grad students and their families.

The Department of Manufacturing and Mechanical Engineering Technology (MMET) and the College of Computing (CC) inducted five students into Michigan Tech's Delta Zeta Chapter of the Epsilon Pi Tau Honor Society on April 7.

Epsilon Pi Tau is the international honor society for professions in technology, recognizing students and technology professionals for academic excellence.

Delta Zeta Chapter's spring 2022 Epsilon Pi Tau initiates are:

• Bradley Gipson, CNSA
• Keegan McInerney, MMET
• Patrick Moeller, MMET
• Mason Petersen, MMET
• Oliver Shakal, MMET

For more information, contact Delta Zeta Chapter trustee John Irwin (MMET) at jlirwin@mtu.edu or co-trustee Todd Arney (CC) at toarney@mtu.edu, or visit Epsilon Pi Tau's website.

Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering candidate Vinicius Bonfochi Vinhaes will defend their doctoral dissertation at 2 p.m. tomorrow (April 14) in person in MEEM 809 and virtually via Zoom.

Bonfochi Vinhaes' dissertation is titled "Combustion Development of a High Load High Efficiency Micro-Pilot Diesel Natural Gas Engine."

Bonfochi Vinhaes is advised by Jeff Naber.

The next presenter in the Chemistry Seminar Series will be Xuefei Huang from Michigan State University.

Huang will give his presentation, "Development of next generation charbohydrate-based vaccines," at 3 p.m. Friday (April 15) in Chem Sci 101.

Have you ever had difficulty communicating with your advisor? Do you struggle with the power dynamic? This virtual seminar is designed to help advisors and advisees learn how to effectively navigate their relationships.

Please join us on Zoom at 9 a.m. tomorrow (April 14) with hosts Debra Charlesworth (GS) and Anna McClatchy (Dean of Students' Office) to discuss how to productively communicate and resolve problems that may arise.

Please register in advance to attend.

Assistant Professor Muhammad Rizwan (BioMed) will present a Biomedical Engineering Graduate Seminar at 3:30 p.m. Friday (April 15) in M&M U115.

Rizwan's seminar is titled "Engineered hydrogels for the differentiation and organoids growth of liver cells."

From the abstract:
Diseases specific to liver bile duct cells (cholangiocytes) account for 70% of pediatric and up to a third of adult liver transplantations. Cholangiocyte can be used to model liver biliary diseases and for transplantation. Notch signaling and a favorable extracellular microenvironment is critical to differentiate human stem cells to cholangiocytes and for primary cholangiocyte organoid growth. This talk describes the development of engineered Notch activating hyaluronan (HA) hydrogels to specifically differentiate human embryonic stem cell-derived hepatoblasts to cholangiocytes and photo-chemical control of Notch signaling.

The next speaker in the Department of Mechanical Engineering-Engineering Mechanics (ME-EM) Graduate Seminar Series will present at 4 p.m. tomorrow (April 14) in MEEM 112.

Vadym Mochalin will present “2D Transition Metal Carbides and Nitrides (MXenes): Interplay of Chemistry, Physics, and Applications.”

Mochalin holds a Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry from L. M. Litvinenko Institute of Physical Organic and Coal Chemistry, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine; and an M.S. in Biochemistry (cum laude) from Donetsk National University, Ukraine.

The next Environmental Engineering Graduate Seminar will take place at 3 p.m. Monday (April 18) in GLRC 202.

Ara Hakim, environmental engineering Ph.D. student and graduate research assistant, will present "Data Assimilation in The Great Lakes: Implementation of Local Ensemble Kalman Filter (LETKF) for Improving Lake Erie Surface Temperature Prediction."

Read the abstract on the University Events Calendar.

Thursday (April 14)
• Overwatch vs. Bethel, 7 p.m.

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Esports News
Read more MTU Esports news in Assistant Esports Director Chris Gelety's weekly update.

• CSGO — The Huskies ended their national championship run Thursday (April 7), finishing in the top eight, falling to Kennesaw State and then Central Florida. Tech ends its postseason with two wins and two losses, the Midwest Conference Championship Title and a top-eight national placement. 
  
  A recording of the Huskies' 2-1 loss to UCF is available on the NACE Starleague Twitch channel.
  
  
• Overwatch — On Thursday, the Huskies fell to Purdue Gold 3-2. This match's recording is available on the Michigan Tech Esports Twitch channel.
  
  
• Super Smash Bros: Ultimate — The Huskies had back-to-back losses to Grand Canyon and Texas at Austin, ending their National Championship aspirations. 
  
  On Saturday, Husky Smash rolled up to the Blizzard tournament hosted in Marquette and proceeded to tear up the 54-entrant singles tournament. Jonathan "Jcam" Parks placed third, Cameron "Psyke" Duffy placed fourth and Christian "Triple C" Clemmons placed fifth overall.
  
  
• Apex Legends — Huskies Apex placed 65th out of 153 teams in the Braghouse tournament Thursday (April 7).

Michigan Tech football supports the Andy Talley Bone Marrow Foundation and encourages those who are able to donate bone marrow next Wednesday (April 20) from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Fisher Hall.

Text MTUSaves to 61474 or visit the Be The Match website for more information.

Michigan Tech's Football Prospect Camp features instruction on football fundamentals and techniques used at Michigan Tech.

Spring 2022 camp dates and locations are:

• Saturday, June 11 — Walled Lake Western High School | Walled Lake, Michigan
• Tuesday, June 14 — West De Pere High School | De Pere, Wisconsin

For more information and to sign up, visit the Michigan Tech Football Prospect Camp webpage.

Michigan Tech's hockey team is ranked No. 14 in the final DCU/USCHO.com Top 20 and the USA Today/USA Hockey Magazine polls.

The Huskies finished the season with a 21-13-3 overall record and were the No. 2 seed in the CCHA Mason Cup Playoffs with a 16-8-2 mark.

The final No. 14 ranking is the highest for the Huskies since the 2014-15 season. The last time Tech was ranked as high as No. 13 in the regular season was March 2016.

Read more at the Michigan Tech Athletics website.

Job Postings for Wednesday, April 13, 2022

Staff and faculty job descriptions are available on the Human Resources website. For more information regarding staff positions, call 906-487-2280 or email mtujobs@mtu.edu.

For more information regarding faculty positions, contact the academic department in which the position is posted.

Lecturer in German, Humanities. Apply online.

Administrative Aide 8 (12 months/ 40 hours/ first shift) #22085, Human Resources (UAW posting April 13 to April 19, 2022 — internal UAW applicants are given first consideration if they apply during the internal UAW posting dates). Apply online.

Michigan Technological University is an Equal Opportunity Educational Institution/Equal Opportunity Employer that provides equal opportunity for all, including protected veterans and individuals with disabilities.

Accommodations are available. If you require any auxiliary aids, services, or other accommodations to apply for employment, or for an interview, at Michigan Technological University, please notify the Human Resources office at 906-487-2280 or mtujobs@mtu.edu.

Gordon Parker (ME-EM) was listed by MLive as Michigan Tech's nominee for the state of Michigan's Distinguished Professor of the Year awards. In total, 15 faculty members were nominated — one from each of the state’s public universities.

This year's winners hail from Central Michigan University, Michigan State University and Wayne State University.

Research scientist Yibin Zhang, graduate students Dilka Liyana Arachchige and Adenike Olowolagba, Associate Professor Rudy Luck and Professor Haiying Liu (Chem) have published a paper in Methods.

The paper is titled "Near-infrared Fluorescent Probe Based on Rhodamine Derivative for Detection of NADH in Live Cells."

The research is supported by the National Institute of General Medical Sciences of the National Institutes of Health under award numbers R15GM114751 and 2R15GM114751-02 (to H.Y. Liu).

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Rudy Luck and Haiying Liu (Chem) are co-authors of a paper published in Spectrochimica Acta Part A: Molecular and Biomolecular Spectroscopy.

The paper is titled "A two-photon fluorogenic probe based on a coumarin schiff base for formaldehyde detection in living cells."

MS Defense: Dhruv Dahiya, ECE

M.S. in Electrical Engineering candidate Dhruv Dahiya will present their master's defense at 10 a.m. tomorrow (April 14) in EERC 508 and via Zoom.

Dahiya's defense is titled "Comparative Study of low-range LiDAR, mid-range LiDAR, and Depth Camera for Autonomous Rut Depth Measurement."

Dahiya is advised by Jeremy Bos.

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Upcoming Employee Financial Health Webinars

Join the Benefits Office for these free live webinars scheduled this spring. Regardless of which investment company you invest with, you are encouraged to attend the following webinars presented by Fidelity:

• Learn the Basics of When and How to Claim Social Security
  Friday, April 15 — Noon
  This webinar will cover:
  
  • Understanding Social Security.
  • Considerations for claiming Social Security benefits.
  • Deciding when to take Social Security benefits.
    Register for the April 15 webinar.

• Prepare for the Reality of Health Care in Retirement
  Friday, April 29 — Noon
  This webinar will cover:
  
  • Estimating retirement health care costs.
  • Understanding available options before and after age 65.
  • Planning for retirement health care costs.
    Register for the April 29 webinar.

These webinars count toward Option 2 in your Husky Health Checklist.

Follow Michigan Tech Wellness on Facebook for upcoming health and wellness initiatives supported by the Benefits Office, which may count toward your 2022 Husky Health Checklist.

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Design Expo Workshop: Explain Your Project to Anybody

As you prepare for Design Expo and other end-of-semester presentations, it can help to practice talking about your work!

Join us in the library’s East Reading Room from 4-5 p.m. today (April 13) for this workshop, where we'll provide tips for talking about your design in a concise, easy-to-understand way.

Come prepared to answer questions about your work. Pizza and cookies provided!

Please register to attend.

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

Teal Ribbons

Wednesday, April 13, 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...

Master's Defense: Abilynn Raetz

Wednesday, April 13, 8–9 a.m. | Dow Environmental Sciences and Engineering Building, 743

Geological Engineering Advisor: John Gierke Simulating Groundwater Pollutant Transport for Remediation Design, Antrim County, Michigan Attend Virtually:...

Digital Marketers

Wednesday, April 13, 9–10 a.m. | Administration and Student Services Building, G27

Digital Marketers is a group for digital platform managers (digital ads, photo/video production, social media accounts, websites, etc) across campus. We meet every other...

Stress Less

Wednesday, April 13, 10–11 a.m.

Ready to lower anxiety and depression? Using Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) practices, this 4-week structured workshop will teach you skills to grow mindfulness and...

Master's Defense: Jessica Applin

Wednesday, April 13, 3 p.m.–4 p.m. | Memorial Union Building (MUB), Datolite (100)

Environmental & Energy Policy Advisor: Shan Zhou Timber, Taxes, and Fire: A Story of the History, Ecology, and Policy Leading to the Adoption of Public Act 94 of 1925 ...

PhD Defense: Akhil Manoshkumar Kurup

Wednesday, April 13, 4 p.m.–5 p.m. | Fisher Hall, 126

Computer Engineering Advisor: Jeremy Bos Autonomous Perception in Unstructured Environments Attend Virtually: https://michigantech.zoom.us/j/82265688629

Monthly General Meeting _ Spring 2022

Wednesday, April 13, 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...

Open Rock Climbing

Wednesday, April 13, 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...

USG Weekly Meeting

Wednesday, April 13, 7 p.m.–9 p.m. | MUB Alumni Lounge - 107 B&C

This meeting includes weekly updates from all representatives, liaison positions, and committees. Official business carried out by USG is conducted throughout old and new...

She Kills Monsters

Wednesday, April 13, 7:30 p.m. | McArdle Theatre

Michigan Tech Theatre Presents She Kills Monsters By Qui Nguyen Directed by Trish Helsel, Associate Professor and Head of Theatre and Electronic Media Performance. _____ “It...

Huskies Out of Hibernation Virtual 5k

April 13, all day

Sign up for the 5k before the end of March 30th on https://runsignup.com/Race/MI/Houghton/HuskiesOutofHibernation. The registration fee is $20 and comes with a 5k t-shirt!...