Posts under the ‘Research’ category

Graduate Research Colloquium For Spring 2012:   The Graduate Student Government sponsored the Graduate Research Colloquium Poster & Presentation Competition. The colloquium was a unique opportunity for students  to share their research with the university community and to gain experience in presenting that research to colleagues.

Here are the pictures and posters from the 2012 Colloquium

Here is a Photo Set on Michigan Tech Flickr

Abstracts of Posters & Presentations for Spring 2012 Graduate Research Colloquium PDF

What Are You Doing? 5th Annual D80 Conference is a celebration of our efforts to solve issues that confront the world’s poorest 80%. Event was held on October 8, 2011 at Michigan Tech. See 5th Annual D80 Conference video clips and photos

Presented at Michigan Tech’s Campus October 2011, MTRI, Michigan Tech Research Institute (Ann Arbor) poster presentations were on display in the Atrium of the Dow Environmental Sciences and Engineering Building where numerous faculty and students had the chance to study them.

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Captain Jim Vivian and Chief Scientist Marcel Dykstra put on an amazing “show” this past Saturday for 108 community members (about 1/3 of those who attended were ages 7-17 years) who had the opportunity to take a scientific excursion (one of six offered) aboard the Agassiz at the Strawberry Festival. Joan Chadde introduced each excursion and stated the funders and sponsors, and the importance of having citizens act as informed stewards of the Great Lakes.

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Poster Session showcasing the work of nine talented undergraduate students who have been doing research on advanced propulsion and fuel technology for sustainable transportation this summer.

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High school teachers from across Michigan are doing a little summer school themselves, attending the Research Experience for Teachers on the Michigan Technological University campus. In the program, funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF), they are doing multi-disciplinary research in Michigan Tech’s Wood-to-Wheels forest-based biofuels transportation enterprise.

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Professor Alex Mayer has received the Lake Superior Binational Forum’s 2011 individual Environmental Stewardship Award for the US. The award honors “extraordinary achievements by ordinary people.” The Lake Superior Binational Forum is composed of 12 Canadian and 12 American stakeholders, representing industrial, Tribal/First Nations, business, environmental, recreational, tourism, health, labor and academic interests.

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Greg Waite, assistant professor of geological and mining engineering and sciences, is focusing on “mini-earthquakes” within or beneath the nearby and also troublesome Villarrica volcano. These earthquakes reveal details about the shape of the conduit and dynamics of the magmatic system.

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Michigan Tech’s “Unlock Your Future” Program helps community college students transfer to a four-year institution to earn a baccalaureate degree. Students presented their research work at a poster session.

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Professor Gerard Caneba is developing next-generation chemicals from vinyl acetate polymers that could be used to clean up oil spills and disperse spilled oil. With researchers from Gulf Coast universities, he has been working to obtain funds to investigate this family of polymer surfactants.

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