Tick Talk, the crowdsourcing tick collection project conducted last year at Michigan Tech, will run for a second year in 2024. Tick collection will start early this year due to warm weather.
From the 2024 Michigan Tech Magazine A glycobiologist and a computer scientist join forces to find protein-bound glycans faster—a major advance in the understanding of human health and disease. Shortly after Dukka KC arrived on campus in fall 2021, the new professor of computer science emailed Michigan Tech glycobiologist Tarun Dam. The note, as Dam remembers it, said in essence, . . .
From the 2024 Michigan Tech Magazine Mechatronics Program Ranked No. 2 in US The field of mechatronics is driving a technological revolution of the manufacturing industry, reinventing the way products are designed, produced, and delivered with digital technologies, automation, and data analytics. This past June, MTU’s interdisciplinary mechatronics program was ranked No. 2 in the United States . . .
From the 2024 Michigan Tech Magazine The College of Computing and the Institute of Computing and Cybersystems (ICC) collaborated to present Showcase [AI] at Michigan Tech in October. The showcase explored the excitement and controversy surrounding the intuitive automated systems affecting more and more aspects of daily life, including health, communications, and computing.
The Michigan Tech Health Informatics master’s program will host guest speaker Matt Nash, CEO of Kairos Technologies, on Thursday, March 14, 2024, from 10-10:45 am in Rekhi G009 and via Zoom. Nash’s talk is titled, “Artificial Intelligence in the Healthcare and Medical Fields.”
Master’s student Bester Mangisoni (data science), president of the African Students Organization at Michigan Tech, was quoted by the Daily Mining Gazette in a story about African Night, an annual event hosted by the org on March 9, 2024, to share their cultures with the community. This year’s event featured speakers Josh Rushlau and Betty Chavis. Read . . .