September 12, 2022

You are invited to present at the 2022 Global and Community Engagement Conference (formally known as D80 Conference). The Michigan Tech campus hosts this annual conference every fall to give a platform to the voices of those serving communities both domestically and abroad. Faculty, staff, students and local organizations are invited to share their work, projects or research.

This year's theme is "Re-energizing Our Communities Through Service." Please consider submitting a 30-minute presentation proposal. If you have any questions, please reach out to Darnishia Morris at dar@mtu.edu.

The conference will be held from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Oct. 29 in the Memorial Union Ballroom. Free lunch will be provided.

The conference is open to anyone interested in the development, design and discovery of people and communities!

Faculty, staff and graduate students can have their complimentary professional portrait taken by University Marketing and Communications (UMC) at one of the following sessions:

• Monday, Oct. 3 — 1-3 p.m.
• Tuesday, Oct. 4 — 1-3 p.m.

The sessions will take place in the UMC Studio, located in Admin G37.

An appointment is required and can be scheduled online. On the calendar, go to Oct. 3 or Oct. 4, choose the time you want, then click Save. You must use your mtu.edu account when scheduling a time slot.

Portraits will be emailed to the attendee within four weeks after the session. Alternatively, departments or individuals can contact Brockway Photography at 906-482-1900 to schedule a session and purchase portraits at any time.

The University Senate will convene Meeting 675 at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday (Sept. 14) 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 675.

All faculty and staff are required to complete training workshops to serve on search committees.

The overarching requirement is:

• Members of a faculty search committee complete Diversity Literacy Online Workshop (DLOW) and Faculty Legal Aspects.
• Members of a staff search committee complete the Staff Hiring Process Training Program, which has a Legal Aspects component.
• These workshops must be completed every three to four years.

In addition, a brief online "Legal Aspects Review for Search Committees" Canvas course is required each time someone serves on a search committee, but not more than once per year, and not if they have completed the overarching requirement within that year. It will be assigned upon joining a search committee.

These requirements are in place to ensure that appropriate processes, policies and procedures are at the forefront when search committee members complete their important work.

Please contact Equal Opportunity Compliance at eoctraining@mtu.edu for further information or with questions.

Tadeusz Stacewicz of the University of Warsaw will be presenting at the next Physics Colloquium.

Please join the presentation at 4 p.m. Thursday (Sept. 15) in Fisher 139.

Stacewicz's presentation is titled "Trace gases detection in the air with laser spectroscopy."

Read the abstract on the University Events Calendar.

LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) Training will be offered at Michigan Tech again this fall. 

The U.S. Green Building Council created the LEED Green Building design/certification system, which has certified over 15 billion square feet of the built environment globally. Over 200,000 sustainability leaders have received their LEED accreditation.

Training will take place in 10 hours over five weeks, starting Oct. 13.
MTU students and employees are eligible. The Thursday sessions will be held from 4-6 p.m. in Chem Sci 211.

The training will be offered for $90, which includes notes and a book with all needed study materials. Paying online constitutes program registration, so no other registration is required.

Barbara L. Dutrow, Adolphe G. Gueymard Professor of Geology at Louisiana State University, will present lectures Thursday and Friday (Sept. 15 and 16) to help the A. E. Seaman Mineral Museum celebrate its 120th anniversary.

Dutrow will present “The Many Faces of Tourmaline: From Gemstone to Geologic DVD” on Thursday at 7 p.m. in ATDC 101. On Friday, she will speak about “Minerals as Solutions to Scientific, Technological, and Societal Issues” at 4 p.m. in Dow 642. The public is invited to both presentations and light refreshments will be served.

Dutrow is a highly acclaimed geologist and educator. She is the winner of the 2022 Carnegie Mineralogical Award, served as the 2021-22 president of the Geological Society of America and is a former president of the Mineralogical Society of America. The new tourmaline-group mineral dutrowite was named in her honor in 2020.

Dutrow’s visit is sponsored by the A. E. Seaman Mineral Museum, the Department of Geological and Mining Engineering and Sciences, the Association for Women Geoscientists Lecture Program and the Edith Dunn and E. Wm. Heinrich Mineralogical Research Foundation.

Chee-Wooi Ten (ECE/ICC) is the principal investigator on a project that has received a $50,000 other sponsored activities grant from the National Science Foundation.

The project is titled "I-Corps: Prototyping Power Substation Blackbox."

This is a potential three-year project.

The Keweenaw Report picked up a Michigan Tech News story about notable statistics for the University’s fall enrollment and incoming class.

Significant numbers mentioned in the story include 1,388 incoming first-year students and more than 2,100 women enrolled at Tech for the first time ever.

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The Daily Mining Gazette mentioned Michigan Tech in a story about the GeekU.P. convention, which was held Saturday (Sept. 10) at the Memorial Union Building.

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WJMN Local 3 mentioned Michigan Tech in a story about three U.S. Space Force research contracts awarded to Marquette company Kall Morris Inc., which is focused on developing ways to remove debris from Earth’s orbit. The company plans to open a permanent office in Marquette.

Change in Procedure for Training Temporary Employees

At Michigan Tech, it is everyone’s responsibility to create a welcoming environment and harassment-free campus. In addition, employees are often role models for students to learn appropriate professional habits, so it is essential to understand these issues and maintain professional standards of conduct. For short-term/casual/seasonal (temporary) employees, this is their responsibility too.

Equal Opportunity Compliance (formerly known as Institutional Equity) previously required an online training course for short-term/casual/seasonal (temporary) employees. Going forward, we will no longer require this online training and will instead send each new temporary employee an email briefly explaining the information that our office wants to share with this population. A link to the Employee Code of Conduct, which reviews University expectations in regard to employee conduct, is included in the email.

Please contact Equal Opportunity Compliance at eocompliance@mtu.edu or 906-487-3310 if you have questions, concerns, and/or require further assistance.

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Export Controls Educational Session

The Vice President for Research Office will host an educational session, "Review of Export Controls," from noon to 1 p.m. Sept. 21 in the Memorial Union Building, Ballroom A. Registration is open now and ends next Monday (Sept. 19).

This session will help faculty and staff understand and address export controls considerations when conducting research. Topics covered will include: managing technical data, intellectual property and proprietary materials; defining and working with foreign nationals, publishing and teaching; and exporting and licensing considerations.

Register to reserve a seat.

This workshop is sponsored by the Vice President for Research Office. Desserts and beverages will be provided. Please bring your own lunch.

If you have questions, contact Ramona Englund at 7-2654.

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Presentation: 'How Entrepreneurism, Not Big Government, Built America'

Burt Folsom will be giving a presentation titled "How Entrepreneurism, Not Big Government, Built America" tomorrow (Sept. 13) at 7 p.m. in Fisher 139. The public is encouraged to attend.

Folsom is a native of Lincoln, Nebraska, and has been a college professor at many places, including Hillsdale College in Michigan, where he still serves as a distinguished fellow. He received his B.A. from Indiana University and his Ph.D. in history from the University of Pittsburgh.

A distinguished economic historian, Folsom appears regularly on Fox News and is the author of 10 books, including "The Myth of the Robber Barons," which is published by Young America’s Foundation and will soon be in its ninth edition, "Uncle Sam Can’t Count," "FDR Goes to War" and "New Deal or Raw Deal?"

Young Americans for Freedom at Michigan Tech is hosting the event.

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Richard E. Honrath Memorial Lecture

Join us as we hear from Louisa Kramer, principal consultant, Ricardo Energy & Environment, U.K., who will be presenting "Understanding the impact of two important reactive nitrogen species on air quality."

The lecture will be held from 4-5 p.m. today (Sept. 12) in M&M U113.

Read the abstract on the University Events Calendar.

The Richard E. Honrath Memorial Lecture is a joint Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences Institute (EPSSI)/Environmental Engineering Graduate Seminar honoring the memory of Richard E. Honrath Jr., who was a faculty member in the Department of Civil, Environmental, and Geospatial Engineering and Department of Geological and Mining Engineering and Sciences. Professor Honrath was a co-founder of Michigan Tech's Atmospheric Sciences doctoral degree program. He died tragically in a kayaking accident in April 2009.

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Advertise Your Event on the University Events Calendar

The University Events Calendar is a great place to advertise department events that are hosted or sponsored by Michigan Tech. This crowdsourced events calendar is meant for attendable events that need public advertising. It is not meant for deadlines, private events or internal events such as staff meetings. Events listed can be virtual, in-person or hybrid.

If there is someone in your department who should be in charge of adding events, you can request event admin access by emailing webcal@mtu.edu with the person's name, email address and department. Further details about adding events will then be provided.

Events from the University Events Calendar can be fed onto your department website and may also automatically appear in Tech Today on the day the event takes place. Additional tips for promoting your event can be found online.

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

Annual Poster Sale

Monday, September 12, 9 a.m.–5 p.m. | MUB Ballroom B001

Need some fresh new dorm decor? Want to spice up your house walls a little? For a full week, we will be selling posters, postcards, tapestries, fairy lights, and more! There's...

Kimberly-Clark Open House

Monday, September 12, 2 p.m.–4 p.m. | Administration and Student Services Building, 220 Career Services

Interested in joining our team of innovative minds? Stop by and talk to us!

EPSSI Seminar: Dr. Louisa Kramer, Principal Consultant, Ricardo Energy & Environment, UK

Monday, September 12, 4 p.m.–5 p.m. | Dow Environmental Sciences and Engineering Building, Room 642

This event will be held in DOW 642. The Richard E. Honrath Memorial Lecture "Understanding the impact of two important reactive nitrogen species on air quality." Reactive...

Monday Study Sessions!

Monday, September 12, 5:30 p.m.–8:30 p.m. | Fisher Hall 232

Get together with your peers to work on professional, personal and academic activities with help from undergrad and grad physics buddies! When: Every Monday evening from 5:30...