Professor Blair Orr was featured on the White House website in a story highlighting Peace Corps volunteers through the years. Orr is director of Tech’s Peace Corps Master’s International programs. He served in the Peace Corps from 1978 to 1981. View the article here.
| The Ecosystem Science Center and the Biotechnology Research Center announce award recipients of the Seventh Annual ESC/BRC Student Research Forum, held March 25.
For the graduate students, two Grand Prize Awards, six Merit Awards and two Honorable Mention Awards were presented. They were selected from among the 42 posters and abstracts submitted by graduate students conducting research related to ecology, the environment and biotechnology at Michigan Tech. New this year was a separate undergraduate research division with 9 submissions. For the undergraduate students, each center awarded a grand prize winner. Posters will continue to be on display in the atrium of the Noblet Building, School of Forest Resources, Michigan Tech Campus through April 8 Graduate Research: $500 Grand Prizes
Biotechnology Research Center:
$100 Merit Awards
Biotechnology Research Center
$50 Honorable Mention Awards: Ecosystem Science Center
Undergraduate Research: $150 Grand Prize Awards
Biotechnology Research Center
Organizers thank participants, the judges and all who helped with another successful ESC/BRC Student Research Forum. |
The Seventh Annual ESC/BRC Student Research Forum will be held this Friday March 25th, 2011 from 3-5pm with awards and pizza following.
Graduate students working in ecosystem science and biotechnology fields will present their research posters in the atrium of the UJ Noblet Forestry Building. New this year is a separate undergraduate division.
Please join us to celebrate the accomplishments of our students. See graduate student and undergraduate student participants. Even numbered posters will present from 3-4 and odd numbered posters will present from 4-5.
Please contact Jill Fisher, Program Manager for the ESC, jhfisher@mtu.edu or Mary Tassava, Program Manager for the BRC, mltassav@mtu.edu, for more information.
Assistant Professor Thomas Pypker, Co-PI Andrew Storer and Co-PI Catherine Tarasoff have received $166,752 from the USDA, Forest Service, Eastern Region, for a one-year project, “Future of Black Ash Wetlands in the Northern Great Lakes Region.”
Assistant Professor Oliver Gailing has received $61,200 from the Pennsylvania State University for the first year of a five-year $215,077 project, “TRPGR: Comparative Genomics of Environmental Stress Responses in North American Hardwoods.”
Assistant Professor John Vucetich and Co-PI Rolf Peterson have received $36,600 from the US Department of Interior, National Park Service, for the first year of a five-year project, “Wolf-Moose Long-Term Monitoring on Isle Royale National Park 2011-2016.”
This summer, the Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) will support 23 students from across the University with funds from the Vice President for Research, the Honors Institute and the Biotechnology Research Center (BRC). The total funding for the program this year is $74,300.
The recipients, their major, membership in the Honors Institute (HI) and advisors from the School of Forest Resources and Environmental Science are:
Alex Mehne (Forestry), Associate Professor Andrew Burton, Performance of Non-local Tree Species Planted in Baraga County, Michigan.
Auriel Van Der Laar (Wildlife Ecology and Management, HI), Assistant Professor Joseph Bump, Developing Morphometrics Models to Predict the Sex of King and Virginia Rails.
Katherine Waring (Civil and Environmental Engineering, HI), Assistant Professor Rodney Chimner , Sleeper Lake Fen Restoration: Modeling Water Flow Patterns and Water Chemistry.