Design Expo Still Seeking Attendee, Participant Feedback

Continuous improvement is an integral part of Design Expo. If you participated in or attended Expo on April 21, please tell us what you thought about this year’s event.

The feedback form will remain open until next Friday (May 20). Your feedback will be helpful as we start planning for Design Expo 2023!

Thank you for helping us make next year's event even better!

WebFOCUS System Maintenance

A production system maintenance window is scheduled from 10 a.m. to noon May 22. During that time, WebFOCUS will be unavailable.

If you have any questions or concerns, we can help. Contact us at it-help@mtu.edu or call 7-1111.

Retirement Reception for William Predebon

The Department of Mechanical Engineering-Engineering Mechanics (ME-EM) invites the campus community to a retirement reception to honor Bill Predebon, who will retire June 30.

The social will be held from 4-7 p.m. today (May 13) in the Rozsa Lobby. Hors d'oeurves and refreshments will be provided.

Join us in celebrating his career, thanking him for his service and wishing him all the best in his retirement.

Spiritual Conversation Workshops

Interested in finding ways to more naturally integrate your faith into everyday conversations? InterVarsity Christian Fellowship is hosting a series of workshops for faculty, staff and grad students from Tuesday to Thursday (May 17-19).

Series events include:

  • The Five Thresholds — A tool to help understand our faith journeys.
    • Tuesday, May 17, 12-1 p.m. in GLRC 202.
    • Lunch provided.

  • Rethinking Evangelism — Often Christians think of evangelism as something we should do, but it doesn’t feel natural. InterVarsity evangelist Rick Mattson shares a model for a better way to think about sharing our faith.
    • Tuesday, May 17, 6-7:30 p.m at Evangel Community Church.
    • Childcare provided.

  • Conversation Skills — How to naturally bring up spiritual topics in conversation.
    • Wednesday, May 18, 12-1 p.m. in GLRC 202.
    • Lunch provided.

  • Telling Your Story — A three-part model to communicate our faith story to others.
    • Thursday, May 19, 12-1 p.m. in GLRC 202
    • Lunch provided.

This workshop series is organized by Michigan Tech's chapter of InterVarsity Christian Fellowship. Email Hans Nyberg at hans.nyberg@intervarsity.org to RSVP for one or more of the workshops.

Lunch and Learn: Understanding BCBS Explanations of Benefits

Please join us at noon Tuesday (May 17) in the MUB Alumni Lounge as we welcome Molly Mikesch, client engagement manager for Michigan Technological University from Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan (BCBSM).

Mikesch will explain how to understand your BCBSM explanation of benefits. During this discussion, she will go through how to set up an online account through BCBSM and how employees and members can see and better understand their explanation of benefits through BCBSM. Please bring your device(s), as this will be an interactive session for all members.

Please email benefits@mtu.edu to reserve your seat today!

This Lunch and Learn counts 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.

New Funding

Ravi Pandey (Physics/CQP) is the principal investigator on a project that has received a $75,000 research and development co-op/joint agreement from the Army Research Laboratory.

The project is titled "Study of Structure-Property-Function Relationships of Low-Dimensional Materials for Multiphysics Applications."

This is a potential three-year project.

In the News

Cassy Tefft de Muñoz (CEO) was interviewed by Saginaw radio station Mix 106.3 (WGER-FM) about a pre-college outreach program Michigan Tech has begun with Hemlock Public Schools. The “Huskie to Husky” partnership will award Hemlock students who complete the school district’s two-year FIRST robotics program with a $1,000 annually renewable scholarship to MTU.

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Professor emeritus Barry Solomon (SS) was interviewed for a Q&A titled “2022’s Greenest States” published in WalletHub.

Reminder

Single Sign-On for Overleaf Users

We have been pleased to offer premium access to Overleaf for those with an @mtu.edu email address for the last several years. To better manage the subscription and access, we will enable a Single Sign-On (SSO) feature on Monday (May 16). SSO requires a current student, faculty or staff status (active SSO) in order to access Overleaf’s premium features.

On or after Monday, when you sign in to your Overleaf account, you will:

  • See a notification in your dashboard that SSO is available.
  • Be able to log in and "link" your Overleaf account to your SSO identity by clicking on a button on the MTU Overleaf portal page, or by linking to your SSO in your Account Settings.

Users who do not log in via SSO will see that they no longer have the premium features, but will still be able to access their Overleaf account, projects and all collaborations (no one will lose access to anything).

These pages answer some common questions about the change to SSO access:

Please email library@mtu.edu with any questions.

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