Unscripted: Science and Engineering Research–

December 06, 2019

The Road to COP25

Five of the eight members of Michigan Tech's COP25 student research team pictured
from left: Will Lytle, Gabriel Ahrendt, Shardul Tiwari, Alexis Pascaris and Adewale
Adesanya.

The first in a series of student blogs by Michigan Tech’s representatives at COP25 in Madrid. . . . Read More

November 18, 2019

The Big IDEA: New Hub Transforms Education

Creativity and innovation is at the core of Pavlis Honors College â€” and its newest
project literally creates a hub for transforming 21st century education.

Michigan Tech’s IDEA Hub has a big goal: to reimagine and revolutionize university education. You can help transform the undergraduate experience at Michigan Tech. . . . Read More

November 05, 2019

Q&A with Shawn vanDoorn, Future Mining Engineer

Shawn vanDoorn grew up in the Midwest and starts her career in mining out West next
summer.

Shawn vanDoorn graduates in May 2020 with Michigan Tech’s renewed mining engineering degree. She talks about her Robo-One internship, career goals and favorite courses. . . . Read More

October 31, 2019

Engineers Capture the Sun in a Box

A sunlight simulator is now available to researchers at Michigan Technological University
through the Research Excellence Fund â€“ Infrastructure Enhancement (REF-IE) grant.

There’s a method to my aquatic photochemistry. . . . Read More

October 24, 2019

Be Brief: Glow

Changes in pH cause the rhodol dyes to glow differently, offering insight into diseases
that affect mitophagy.

Fluorescent dyes help chemists see the inner workings of disease. . . . Read More

October 09, 2019

X Marks the Road Infrastructure

Roads are the lifeblood of modern society and upkeep is no easy feat.

There’s a method to my road infrastructure management. . . . Read More

October 03, 2019

C’est La Vie: Historians Map French-speaking Migrations with Geospatial Tech

Michigan Tech researchers will use the Keweenaw Time Traveler and a combination of
spatial and archival datasets to focus specifically on whether French-Canadians were
socially mobile as they migrated from Canada to Michiganâ€™s Upper Peninsula during
the period of 1860 to 1940.

Understanding how French-speaking people migrated throughout North America from the 1600s to 1940 means tracking them at work, school and home spatially and archivally. . . . Read More

September 09, 2019

Necessary Negotiations of Bioenergy Development

There are tradeoffs between biomass production and water flow and quality impacts.

When it comes to planting trees for bioenergy feedstocks, there are tradeoffs to be made. . . . Read More

September 03, 2019

The Secret Strength of Gnashing Teeth

Researchers in the field have found in experiments that adding small defects to glass
can increase the strength of the material 200 times over. Credit: Jilbert Ebrahimi
via Unsplash

There’s a method to modeling cracking in brittle materials. . . . Read More

August 28, 2019

Guest Blog: Bringing Light to the Nation's Forgotten Renewable

A regenerating forest after being harvested, Prince of Wales Island, southeast Alaska.
Credit: Nathan Prangley

Forests are the OG solar power, and in his guest blog, student researcher Nathaniel Prangley explains new techniques that help manage a longstanding renewable resource. . . . Read More

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