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Marches, Mining and Messages from WWI
A Michigan Technological University researcher discovers a dispatch that details troop training on campus in August 1918. . . . Read More
Tech Forward: Q&A with Coach and Mentor Jim Fish
Innovators and entrepreneurs are on campus today to talk about how the Fourth Industrial Revolution is changing the world—and how Michigan Tech leads the change. Alumnus. . . Read More
Be Brief: Strength
Think of making a stronger metal alloy as a bit like making sugar water. . . . Read More
How to Make a Lab-on-a-chip Clear and Biocompatible (With Less Blood Splatter)
Lab-on-a-chip devices harness electrical signals to measure glucose, discern blood type and detect viruses or cancer. But biological samples need hafnium oxide for protection . . . Read More
Carbon Nanotubes Shush Loud Heating and Air Conditioning Systems
How do you muffle the roar of a big, industrial heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) system using safe, compact, inexpensive technology? With coaxial thermophones. . . . Read More
A Switchgrass Sugar Situation
Switchgrass is a promising biofuel alternative to corn, but farmers, environmentalists and biofuel developers, find deciding on the right time to harvest particularly thorny. . . . Read More
Robot Helps With Early Screening for Alzheimer’s Patients
September is World Alzheimer’s Awareness Month and a new project in collaboration with UP Health System Portage investigates how technology can assist doctors in earlier . . . Read More
Geek Out in the Garden
Gardens are musical—and full of curious bits of science and engineering. In this photo essay, explore the STEM that helps our campus gardens grow. . . . Read More
Swept Away: Stream Gauges Essential to Storm Resilience
Stream gauges in the Keweenaw help us understand ecosystems and prepare our communities for flooding—but their existence is in jeopardy. . . . Read More
Teaching Old Tech New Tricks
Using century-old minerals processing methods, chemical engineering students have found a solution to a looming 21st-century problem: how to economically recycle lithium . . . Read More