November 10, 2022

Michigan Technological University and Nexteer Automotive have signed an Education Partnership Agreement supporting Nexteer employees to pursue advanced degrees through Michigan Tech’s Global Campus, where they can acquire in-demand skills, pursue areas of professional interest and meet demands for high-growth areas in the automotive industry.

The partnership between Michigan Tech and Nexteer — a leading motion control technology company with 26 manufacturing plants and multiple operations in North and South America, Europe, Asia and Africa — allows current Nexteer employees to receive fellowships to pursue one of Tech’s online graduate certificates or master’s degrees. The annual fellowships are available for up to four years, provided the recipients meet the University's eligibility requirements.

Read the full press release at Michigan Tech News.

The Department of Cognitive and Learning Sciences (CLS) is holding an Applied Cognitive Science and Human Factors (ASCHF) Graduate Programs Virtual Open House at 7 p.m. Tuesday (Nov. 15).

Are you looking to advance your career with a graduate degree in applied psychology? If so, consider attending the upcoming virtual open house to learn about our master's and doctoral programs in applied cognitive science and human factors (ASCHF) at Michigan Technological University.

The ACSHF program includes coursework-track M.S., thesis-track M.S., and Ph.D. programs. The virtual info session will include an informal discussion with ACSHF Graduate Program Director Kevin Trewartha, with time provided for Q&A.

Register using our RSVP form to receive a Zoom link for this virtual event.

The Student Development Complex (SDC) will have shortened hours over Thanksgiving Break (Nov. 18-27). Normal building hours will resume Nov. 28.

A complete schedule of SDC Thanksgiving Break hours is available on the Michigan Tech Recreation website.

As part of the 2022 Freedom Week celebration, Young Americans for Freedom is hosting four veterans who will each share their experiences while serving in the military.

Please join us tonight (Nov. 10) at 7 p.m. in M&M 610.

This year’s speakers are as follows:

• Retired U.S. Air Force Col. Walter Cayce
  Cayce served 27 years as a flight surgeon and is a graduate student in Michigan Tech’s College of Computing, studying health informatics. He is originally from Lakewood, Ohio.
  
  
• WWII Veteran Retired U.S. Army Air Force Staff Sgt. Joseph A. Enrietti
  Enrietti is originally from Mohawk, Michigan, and served in the 789th Squadron, 467th Bomber Group, 8th Air Force, as a tail gunner in a B-24 Liberator. He received an Aerial Gunner Badge, WWII Victory Medal and European Campaign Medal with a Bronze Star.
  
  
• Retired U.S. Navy Petty Officer 1st Class Joshua King
  King served for 10 years — six years on active duty as a U.S. Navy petty officer first class, and four years in the drilling reserves. While on active duty, he served as a nuclear-trained machinist mate and transitioned to an aerographer’s mate after leaving active duty and serving in the drilling reserves. He was stationed in both Hawaii and Washington, and served aboard the USS Buffalo SSN 715, a Los Angeles–class fast-attack submarine. King is a junior materials science and engineering major from Georgia.
  
  
• Retired U.S. Navy Cmdr. Maria Kinnunen
  Kinnunen, a native of New Jersey, received a B.A. in Chemistry from Columbia University in 1983. Seeking a career change into engineering, she joined the Navy as a direct-accession engineering duty officer (EDO) and attended Officer Candidate School, followed by Surface Warfare Officers School. Kinnunen later went on to attend the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California, and received an M.S. in Mechanical Engineering in 1995. She then serve as executive officer and assistant professor of naval science at Carnegie Mellon University ROTCU, where she had the pleasure of preparing midshipmen to meet the challenges of the fleet. She retired in 2007 from the USS Carl Vinson after 20 years of service.

Please join us in honoring our veterans while they share their stories. Students, faculty, staff and community members are encouraged to attend.

This week, the Film Board is presenting "Bullet Train," which is rated R.

Summary: Five assassins aboard a fast-moving bullet train find out their missions have something in common.

Showings:

• Friday, Nov. 11 — 5:30 p.m., 8:30 p.m., 11:30 p.m.
• Saturday, Nov. 12 — 5:30 p.m., 8:30 p.m., 11:30 p.m.
• Sunday, Nov. 13 — 5:30 p.m., 8:30 p.m.,

Located on Michigan Tech's campus in Fisher 135.

Tickets are $3 and concessions are $1. We hope to see you at the movie this weekend and have a great day.

Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering candidate Saleh Bhuiyan will defend his doctoral dissertation at 11:15 a.m. Wednesday (Nov. 16). This event can be attended in person only in M&M 610.

Bhuiyan's dissertation is titled "Electrochemical Approaches to Control Catechol-based Adhesion."

He is advised by Bruce Lee.

Rudy Luck (Chem) will present his seminar on "Syntheses, structural characterizations, and theoretical studies on three classes of transformative molecules" as part of the Chemistry Seminar Series.

The seminar will take place at 3 p.m. tomorrow (Nov. 11) in Chem Sci 101.

Join the Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences Institute (EPSSI) from 4-5 p.m. Monday (Nov. 14) as we hear from climatologist Judah Cohen, director of seasonal forecasting, Atmospheric and Environmental Research (AER).

Cohen will be presenting “Eurasian Snow Cover Variability Links with Stratosphere-Troposphere Coupling and its impacts on Eastern US Weather” in the Minerals and Materials Engineering Building, M&M U113.

Read the abstract on the University Events Calendar.

Thomas Werner (BioSci) will present today (Nov. 10) as part of the Department of Biological Sciences (BioSci) Seminar Series.

Werner's presentation will take place from 3-4 p.m. in person in the Great Lakes Research Center, GLRC 202, and virtually via Zoom.

The title of his presentation is "The Making of a Fruit Fly Encyclopedia: Adventures of a Mobile Fruit Fly laboratory in the Northwestern Wilderness."

From the abstract:
Dr. Werner is the author of the “The Encyclopedia of North American Drosophilids”, consisting of two open-access volumes “Drosophilids of the Midwest and Northeast (Vol. 1)” and “Drosophilids of the Southeast (Vol. 2)”. To expand on his work and cover the fruit flies of the northwestern United States, he took a mobile fruit fly lab with imaging capability on a 6000 mile, 5-week road-trip that yielded 3500 fruit flies belonging to 21 species, many of which will adorn the next encyclopedia volume. Dr. Werner will both talk about these amazing fly species and give a virtual tour of his incredible mobile lab. Over the past century, several big fruit fly collection trips were carried out by other scientists; however, nobody has ever taken a lab with this imaging functionality on the road before, which makes this trip unique.

Michigan Tech women's basketball begins their 2022-23 regular season in Liberty, Missouri, for the Great Lakes Valley Conference (GLVC) Crossover Tournament.

The Huskies will compete in games at 8:30 p.m. ET tomorrow (Nov. 11) and 2 p.m. ET Saturday (Nov. 12) against William Jewell College (host) and Lewis University, respectively.

Fans can hear both games on Mix 93.5 FM WKMJ and online at Pasty.net.

Read the preview at the Michigan Tech Athletics website.

Andrew Fiss (HU) was interviewed on a New Books Network podcast episode that aired Nov. 9.

Fiss talked and sang about his recent book, “Performing Math: A History of Communication and Anxiety in the American Mathematics Classroom.”

2022 Flexible Spending Account Reminder

The deadline for employees to submit claims for their 2022 Flexible Spending Account (FSA) is March 31, 2023. Health care and dependent care claims during the 2022 calendar year are eligible if the date of service was in 2022. Any money remaining in the account after this date is forfeited per IRS regulations.

Dependent care claims require an invoice or receipt from the provider. All medical, dental and optical claims should be processed through your insurance plans before submitting them to your health care reimbursement account.

Attach the Explanation of Benefits (EOB) or a claim summary from your insurance plan to the claim form when submitting a claim. For expenses not processed through insurance, submit the itemized receipt.

More information and the FSA claim form and can be found online on the Human Resources Flex Spending webpage.

For questions, contact Benefits Services at benefits@mtu.edu or call 7-2517.

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Physics Colloquium Update: Speaker Change

The scheduled speaker at this week's Physics Colloquium, Jiali Wang, is unable to attend. The colloquium, at 4 p.m. today (Nov. 10) in Fisher Hall 139, will instead feature speaker Kamal Kant Chandrakar ’19 (Ph.D., atmospheric sciences).

Consequently, Chandrakar's originally planned seminar at 11 a.m. Thursday has been canceled.

Chandrakar's presentation is titled "Impact of aerosols and turbulence on cumulus and stratocumulus clouds: process level investigations using a Lagrangian particle-based scheme in large-eddy simulations."

Read the abstract at the University Events Calendar.

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Physics Seminar Canceled

The physics seminar planned today (Nov. 10) at 11 a.m. has been canceled. The seminar speaker, Kamal Kant Chandrakar, will instead speak at today's 4 p.m. physics colloquium. The original speaker of the colloquium is unable to attend the event.

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This Week's C3 Luncheon

Menu for Thursday (Nov. 10):

• Italian Sausage with Peppers and Onions (Gluten Friendly)
• Spaghetti with Arrabiata Sauce (Vegan)
• Garlic Bread (Vegan)
• Seared Broccolini (Gluten Friendly, Vegan)
• Citrus Beet Salad (Gluten Friendly, Vegan)

Dining Services presents this week's C3 Luncheon, being held from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. in the Memorial Union Alumni Lounge (MUB 107). All faculty and staff, along with their guests, are invited.

The C3 lunch buffet menus are created and prepared by executive chef Michael Landini and his culinary team. As the name suggests, the meals are meant to foster conversation, community and collegiality. Attendees may bring their lunch instead of purchasing the buffet. Fruit-infused water, coffee, tea, cookies and fruit are available free to all attendees.

The buffet lunch is $12 per person. Cash, credit cards and gift cards are accepted. Gift cards can be purchased in the Memorial Union Office (MUB 101). You can submit C3 feedback using our Google form. To join the C3 Google group and receive weekly menus, email business-support@mtu.edu.

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ME-EM Graduate Seminar Speaker: Nathan Tom

The next speaker in the Department of Mechanical Engineering-Engineering Mechanics's Graduate Seminar Series will present at 4 p.m. today (Nov. 10) in MEEM 112.

Nathan Tom will present “Development of Marine Energy Technologies at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL).”

While at NREL, Tom has been on several collaborative domestic and international projects, which include WEC-Sim code development and serving on the Testing & Expertise for Marine Energy (TEAMER) board.

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

Financial Housekeeping for Now and Later - TIAA Webinar

Thursday, November 10, 12 p.m.–1 p.m.

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Lunch & Learn: Essential Oils

Thursday, November 10, 12 p.m.–1 p.m.

MUB Superior Room B001

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Michigan Tech as a Living Lab: How can we use our campus as a teaching tool and lab for a more sustainable future?

Thursday, November 10, 12:30 p.m.–1:30 p.m. | Dow Environmental Sciences and Engineering Building, 875

Michigan Tech has a rich history of experiential learning and applied research. Transitioning our campus and community to a more sustainable model will afford opportunities...

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CDI x Well-being: Cookies and Coloring Books

Thursday, November 10, 1 p.m.–3 p.m. | Hamar House Center for Diversity and Inclusion, Basement

De-stress with an afternoon of adult coloring and find out more about what resources the Center for Student Mental Health and Well-being has to offer! Come color with us or...

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Biological Sciences Seminar Series

Thursday, November 10, 3 p.m.–4 p.m. | Great Lakes Research Center (GLRC), 202

Dr. Thomas Werner Associate Professor Biological Sciences Michigan Technological University Biography Dr. Thomas Werner is a Distinguished Teaching Award Winner and...

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Money at Work 2: Sharpening Investment Skills - TIAA Webinar

Thursday, November 10, 3 p.m.–4 p.m.

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Development of Marine Energy Technologies at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL)

Thursday, November 10, 4 p.m. | R. L. Smith Mechanical Engineering-Engineering Mechanics Building (MEEM), 112

ME-EM Graduate Seminar Speaker Series proudly presents Nathan Tom National Renewable Energy Laboratory Abstract This talk will present how at NREL, scientists and...

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LEED Green Associate Program Training

Thursday, November 10, 4 p.m.–6 p.m. | Chemical Sciences and Engineering Building, 211

Who: Open to MTU Students and Employees Dates: The class will be held on five Thursdays, starting October 13, 2022. Time: 4–6 p.m. Location: Chem Sci 211 Instructor: Joe...

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Physics Colloquium - Kamal Kant Chandrakar

Thursday, November 10, 4 p.m.–5 p.m. | Fisher Hall, 139

UPDATED TIME & LOCATION! MI Tech Alum, Kamal Kant Chandrakar will be presenting at this week's, in-person, physics colloquium on Thursday (November 10) at 4:00 PM in Fisher...

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Women’s Entrepreneurship Day Panel Discussion

Thursday, November 10, 4:00 p.m.–5:30 p.m.

Join us for the Women’s Entrepreneurship Day Panel Discussion November 10th, 4:00 - 5:30, Zoom Featured Guests include: April Clark with Xpress Transportation Briana...

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Adult Huskies Swim Lessons Fall 2022 Session 3

Thursday, November 10, 5:00 p.m.–5:50 p.m. | Student Development Complex (SDC), Pool

Adult Huskies Swim Lessons provides aquatic education for the beginner to the intermediate swimmer who is looking to become more comfortable in the water and learn the...

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Adult Huskies Swim Training Fall 2022 Session 3

Thursday, November 10, 5:00 p.m.–5:50 p.m. | Student Development Complex (SDC), Pool

Adult Huskies Swim Training provides additional attention and competitive guidance to swimmers ages 18 and older who are looking to improve their swimming skills and fitness...

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Space Dynamics Lab Info Session

Thursday, November 10, 6:30 p.m.–9:00 p.m. | Fisher Hall, 138

An information session to learn about summer internship opportunities at Space Dynamics Laboratory. Pizza will be provided!

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Veterans Speak!

Thursday, November 10, 7 p.m.–9 p.m. | M & M, 610

As part of the 2022 Freedom Week Celebration, Young Americans for Freedom are hosting four veterans who will each share their experiences while serving in the military. This...

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Adult and Youth Huskies Tennis Lessons

November 10, all day | Gates Tennis Center

Youth Tennis Lessons: After school and weekend Youth Huskies Group Tennis Lessons are back this fall! Join by age group and level for some fun on the tennis courts! October 24...