Xiaoyong (Brian) Yuan (AC/CS) has received the 2022 ORAU Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Award in Mathematics/Computer Sciences.
Awarded by the Oak Ridge Associated Universities (ORAU) Council of Sponsoring Institutions, Yuan was selected from 155 applications at 87 ORAU nember institutions. The award represents public recognition by academic peers of the quality and promise of Yuan’s research.
Read more on the Computing News Blog.
M.S. in Geological Engineering candidate Brock Howell will present their defense tomorrow (June 15) at 10 a.m. in person in Dow 633 and virtually via Zoom.
Howell's defense is titled "Evaluation of Production-Well Performance in Response to Formation Clogging and Rehabilitation for the Keweenaw Bay Tribal Fish Hatchery."
Howell is advised by John Gierke.
Travis White (GLRC) is the author of an article published in Proceedings, the voice of the U.S. Coast Guard’s Marine Safety and Security Council.
The article is titled “Marine Autonomy Research in Unstructured Environments,” and begins on page 35.
Steven Techtmann (BioSci) and postdoctoral fellow Lindsay Putman were quoted by Phys.org in a story about their research on using colonies of bacteria to break down plastic waste. The story was picked up by Australia’s Mirage.News.
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Yahoo! News and the Traverse City Record-Eagle ran stories on an entrepreneurial partnership between startup incubator 20Fathoms and Michigan Tech.
Jim Baker (VPR) was quoted in the stories.
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Jared Anderson (VPA) and Ph.D. students Adelina Oronova and Nazar Gora were mentioned by the Daily Mining Gazette in a story about a benefit concert hosted by Trinity Episcopal Church in Houghton. All three participated in the concert, which was held to raise funds for Ukrainians.
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John Durocher ’04 ’08 (adjunct, BioSci) was highlighted as a passionate educator by The Physiologist Magazine.
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Michigan Tech was mentioned in a Daily Mining Gazette story reporting that suspicious activity has been ruled out as a cause of the June 4 fire at the Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity house on College Avenue.
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The Keweenaw Report published information on a search for research participants by Michigan Tech’s Aging, Cognition, and Action Lab.
Proud Innovation Series
The public is invited to celebrate entrepreneurship and Pride Month with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office’s (USPTO's) Proud Innovation virtual presentation series. These two free events celebrate LGBTQIA+ inventors, entrepreneurs and small business owners who are using their intellectual property to bring new ideas to market.
The presentations, jointly hosted by Michigan Tech’s Patent and Trademark Resource Center and the Center for Diversity and Inclusion, will be broadcast in the Van Pelt and Opie Library’s East Reading Room. All are welcome and refreshments will be served. Please register so we don't order too much, or worse, too little pizza!
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Nancy Barr's Farewell
Please join us for a farewell to Nancy Barr (ME-EM), who is leaving the University to take a faculty position with the University of South Florida's Department of English. Her farewell will be held in the Alumni Lounge (107C in the MUB) from noon to 3 p.m. Thursday (June 16).
Nancy joined the mechanical engineering department as an office assistant in 2007 and earned her Master of Science in Rhetoric and Technical Communication and Doctor of Philosophy in Rhetoric, Theory and Culture from Michigan Tech. She leaves the University as a ME-EM professor of practice - engineering communication.
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TaylorMade Demo Day *Some events and times may change
