August 11, 2022

Caryn Heldt (ChE) is the recipient of Michigan Tech’s 2022 Faculty Distinguished Service Award.

“Many people worked as a team to stand up and operate the University’s COVID-19 medical diagnostic laboratory, but Caryn was far above and beyond anyone else in her leadership during the testing lab establishment and operation,” says Vice President for Research Dave Reed. “She went so far above and beyond her normal responsibilities that it is difficult to comprehend how she did it. But she did, and she is truly deserving of the Faculty Distinguished Service Award.”

“Part of being a good problem solver is learning how to break the problem down into small pieces,” Heldt says. “That’s the best way to solve these big problems. Sometimes the solution isn’t to impact the world. But if you can make your community better, then that’s how you start.”

Read about Heldt’s service to the MTU community at Michigan Tech News.

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Erik Herbert (MSE/IMP) is the principal investigator (PI) on a project that has received a $535,317 research and development grant from the National Science Foundation.

The project is titled "GOALI: Engineering Mechanically Stable Interfaces Through Short-Range Molecular Rearrangement Driven by Inhomogeneous li Ion Transfer Kinetics."

Stephen Hackney (MSE/IMP) is a co-PI on this potential three-year project.

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Yu Cai (AC/ICC) is a PI on a project that has received a $149,490 other sponsored activities grant from the National Security Agency.

The project is titled "Innovative GenCyber Teacher Camp at Michigan Tech through doing + gaming + teaching + case studies."

Tim Van Wagner (AC/ICC) is a co-PI on this potential two-year project.

Phys.org and Science Daily mentioned Michigan Tech in a story about a paper published in BioScience proposing the reintroduction of wolves, beavers and other species to the American West in an effort to e-establish ecological processes.

Multiple national media outlets picked up the story.

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The Duluth News Tribune mentioned Michigan Tech in a story about a research project using submersible and surface drones to estimate how many smaller fish call Lake Superior home.

The project is being led by the U.S. Geological Survey’s Great Lakes Science Center and includes multiple regional partners, including Michigan Tech.

Multiple regional news outlets picked up the story.

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The Journal of Cyber Policy mentioned Michigan Tech as a collaborator of the Colorado School of Mines and Bechtel on the Autonomous Site Preparation: Excavation, Compaction and Testing (ASPECT) project as part of NASA’s Lunar Surface Technology Research (LuSTR) program.

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Express Healthcare mentioned Michigan Tech in a Q&A about a biomedical engineering program being launched at UPES School of Health Sciences and Technology, Dehradun, India.

Smriti Arora, assistant professor, said the program's curriculum is benchmarked against Harvard, Stanford and Michigan Tech internationally, as well as several Indian Institutes of Technology.

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The Mining Journal picked up a Michigan Tech News press release about the Safety in the Straits event being held tomorrow (Aug. 12) in St. Ignace, Michigan, to commission the new high-frequency radar system in the Straits of Mackinac.

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