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Kari L. Brown, a PhD student in ME-EM and a GEM Fellow/King-Chavez-Parks Future Faculty Fellow, is featured in a web-based newsletter called “eGFI” (Engineering, Go For It), a publication of the American Society for Engineering Education.
Excerpt from Michigan Tech News – read the full article online and see a picture of Cameron Hartnell wearing the hood.
In 1932, a distinguished Michigan mining engineer named Scott Turner received an honorary doctorate in engineering from Michigan Technological University, at that time called the Michigan College of Mining and Technology. At Michigan Tech’s midyear Commencement on Dec. 12, 2009—77 years later— one of the first recipients of the University’s PhD in industrial heritage and archeology will wear Turner’s historic academic hood to accept his degree.
Two Tech students are visiting Copenhagen this week during the UN’s international climate change conference. One of them is Adam Airoldi, a graduate student in forest ecology and management. His advisor is Associate Professor Andrew Burton (SFRES). Airoldi is doing research in Norway this semester, collaborating with the Norwegian Institute for Nature Research, on changes in the alpine tree line around a small copper-mining town in central Norway. Airoldi earned his bachelor’s in forestry in 2008. He is in Copenhagen on a graduate travel grant from the Ecosystem Science Center.
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Chee Huei Lee, a physics graduate student, has won awards in two international conferences. Lee was one of the 50 finalists in the Science as Art competition at the fall meeting of the 2009 Materials Research Society . These finalists were chosen from nearly 200 artistic entries. Lee’s entry, titled “Dandelion Parachute Ball in the Nano World,” was artificially composed of multiple scanning electron microscopy (SEM) images of boron nitride nanotubes.
After the on-site voting during the meeting, Lee won a second place in the competition. The MRS meeting was held in Boston from Nov. 29 to Dec. 4, with nearly 6,000 participants. Lee presented two talks in the Symposium K (Nanotubes and Related Nanostructures) of the meeting. Earlier, Lee also won a student travel award in the 1st Nano Today Conference held in Singapore. He is a senior graduate student in Professor Yoke Khin Yap’s research group. He is also a member of Phi Kappa Phi honor society.
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Jacqueline Huntoon, dean of the Graduate School, has been elected to the board of the Council of Graduate Schools, a national professional association of graduate schools. She will serve a three-year term on the 12-member board.
The Graduate School has awarded its Finishing Fellowships for fall 2009.
The following PhD candidates have received a one-time finishing fellowship:
The fellowships are made possible by the Graduate School.
Application procedures for finishing fellowships, photographs of recent recipients, and descriptions for all of the school’s fellowship programs can be found on the Graduate School’s web page.
The Graduate School is accepting nominations for the 2010 DeVlieg Foundation Graduate Fellowships. Applications are due in the Graduate School no later than 4 pm on February 4, 2010.
This year, The DeVlieg Foundation will provide $3,000 for up to four doctoral students and $1,500 for two master’s students in support of research in engineering or a closely related field. Only US citizens are eligible for the fellowships, which may be used to supplement other fellowships or assistantships. Complete details on eligibility and review process can be found on our web page.
Each graduate program may nominate up to two doctoral students and one master’s student.
Nominees should provide the following information:
Students will submit a completed application to their graduate program director.
Each graduate program may set their own internal deadline for review. Each graduate program will review their applicants, and may nominate up to two doctoral students and one master’s student. Graduate programs will deliver completed applications to the Graduate School in either paper or electronic format. If delivered as an electronic document, please e-mail a single PDF file to Debra Charlesworth.
Due to University holidays and staff vacations, the Graduate School will be closed from December 24 – January 3.
The Graduate School will also be closed from 11:30am – 1:30pm on Friday, December 18th.
The Graduate School’s web page can provide assistance for many questions regarding:
Happy holidays and new year!
The Graduate School needs your help in welcoming our new graduate students and helping them successfully begin their career at Michigan Tech. Faculty, staff and student volunteers are needed to facilitate discussion during orientation. This is your opportunity to help enhance graduate education at Michigan Tech.
The training will help graduate students and advisors set expectations for graduate education and introduce students to basic concepts in responsible conduct for research.
Volunteers will help facilitate discussion at a table with six or seven new graduate students. The discussion will center around two vignettes that depict typical graduate student and faculty interactions. Volunteers will participate in one training sessions offered the week of January 4th.
Orientation begins at 9am on Friday, January 8th.
Please register online if you would like to volunteer.
After registering, you will receive a confirmation e-mail with the locations for the training and orientation, along with reminders as we get closer to the event.
Please contact Debra Charlesworth with any questions about orientation.
