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Great Lakes Research Center Dedication

Published August 9, 2012

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The Great Lakes Research Center dedication ceremony for Michigan Technological University’s newest building was on Thursday, Aug. 2. The speakers were Michigan Tech President Glenn Mroz; Stephen Hicks, chair of the Board of Control; and Guy Meadows, director of Great Lakes initiatives at the GLRC.

The three-story, 50,000-square-foot center has three distinct areas: a boathouse for the University’s three research vessels and environmental monitoring buoy network, a complex of research laboratories, and a public area that includes conference facilities and space for K-12 education.

Videos from the Great Lakes Resarch Center Symposium

New Study Evaluates Ecological, Economic Impacts of Water Use in Great Lakes Region

Published August 2, 2012

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Michigan Technological University and Arizona State University are leading a new, three-year research study to develop a way to track water flows and water use through a watershed.

The Virtual Water Accounting project is led by Michigan Tech with guidance from an advisory board of business leaders, policymakers and watershed advocates. Principal partners include Arizona State University and the Great Lakes Commission. The Great Lakes Protection Fund is funding the study.

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Meet the New Engineering Dean: William M. Worek

Published July 31, 2012

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Michigan Technological University has a new dean of engineering. William M. Worek, professor and former head of the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC), has accepted the post effective July 1. In addition, Worek will serve as the Dave House Professor.

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Kellie Carpenter Rotunno, geological engineering graduate in the News

Published June 25, 2012

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Kellie Carpenter Rotunno, a 1987 geological engineering graduate and director of engineering and construction for the Northeast Ohio Regional Sewer District, was interviewed by the Cleveland Plain Dealer regarding her job, her education, women in engineering and more.

Alumni News: Debbie Huntzinger

Published June 19, 2012

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Debbie Huntzinger is an award-winning researcher who applies carbon cycle lessons to industry as a faculty at Northern Arizona University.

Over the years, Debbie Huntzinger’s academic interests migrated from groundwater to the atmosphere, but a fellowship award that will help fund her research in carbon sequestration is bringing her back to her engineering roots.

Research: Extreme Event Impacts-Ozone and Particulate Matter Air

Published May 30, 2012

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Assistant Professor Shiliang Wu (GMES/EPSSI) and Research Engineer R. Chris Owen (MTRI) have received $374,960 from the US Environmental Protection Agency for a three-year project, “Extreme Event Impacts-Ozone and Particulate Matter Air.”

Alumnus Brings Education to Ugandan Children

Published May 16, 2012

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In 2007, Michigan Tech alumnus Jim Tanis, geological engineering ’56 ’58 and his wife, Jan Tanis, were honeymooning and globetrotting. They went to Kilimanjaro, Tanzania and finally Uganda, where they sought out mountain gorillas. It was in Uganda that a life-changing encounter seemed to seek them out.

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Researchers Attend American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing

Published April 27, 2012

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Professor Ann Maclean (SFRES) attended the Annual Meeting of the American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ASPRS) in Sacramento, Calif. Maclean, along with Professor John Gierke (GMES) and MS student Jill Bruning (GMES), received the third-place John J. Davidson Presidents Award for Practical Papers.
The purpose of the award is to encourage and commend those who publish papers of practical or applied value in Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing, the official journal of ASPRS. Their paper, “An Approach to Lineament Analysis for Groundwater Exploration in Nicaragua,” was published in May, 2011, and detailed research conducted by Bruning while working on her MS.

Reading Magnetic Fingerprints From Deep Time

Published April 22, 2012

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Assistant Professor Aleksey Smirnov (GMES/EPSSI) has received $186,272 from the National Science Foundation for the first two years of a potential five-year project, “CAREER: Reading Magnetic Fingerprints From Deep Time: An Insight into the Geodynamo and Early Earth System Evolution.”

2012 GMES Awards Banquet

Published April 19, 2012

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The Department of Geological & Mining Engineering & Sciences
12th Annual Awards Ceremony was held Thursday, April 11, 2012 at the Ramada Inn Hancock Michigan

Photos can be seen on the Engineering Flickr Collection

Archive of GMES Awards Banquets
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