Category: Announcements

The University license to Blackboard will expire at the end of this semester, so the Graduate School is switching this week to Canvas (http://mtu.instructure.com) for thesis, dissertation, and report submission.  In support of this transition, the Graduate School will host a seminar on Thursday, March 15th at 2pm (rescheduled due to inclement weather on the original date).  Please register to attend and receive confirmation of the location.

Note that this seminar will only cover the important changes with switching to Canvas. All graduate students will be loaded into Canvas this week.  If you can’t make the seminar, slides will be available online, and a blog tutorial stepping you through the submission process is currently available online.

Additionally, the Degree completion form has been recently updated.  Please discontinue using any old versions you may have previously saved.  The form adds our new programs, and has changed the binding options for theses, dissertations, and reports.

Students who have started submitting documents in Blackboard should continue to do so if they plan to graduate this semester.

Questions?  Please contact Debra Charlesworth.

Nominations for the Gustave O. Arlt Award in the Humanities are due by March 15th to Debra Charlesworth in the Graduate School.  The award recognizes young scholars who have published an outstanding book in their field.  Fields eligible for nomination this year are World Language and Literature, Comparative Literature, or Drama/Theater Arts.

Eligible candidates can be alumni from Michigan Tech, or current faculty.  Michigan Tech may nominate one candidate.

See the CGS website for complete details on eligibility and the nomination process.

This is a reminder that the abstracts for the poster competition are due Friday, Feb 24.

The Ecosystem Science Center, the Biotechnology Research Center and the School of Forest Resources and Environmental Science invite graduate and undergraduate students conducting research related to ecology, the environment or biotechnology to submit titles and abstracts for poster presentations at the 8th Annual ESC/BRC Student Research Forum.

The event will be held on the afternoon of Friday, March 30, in the Atrium of the UJ Noblet Forestry Building.

The forum allows students working in these fields an opportunity to present their research to their peers and faculty. Graduate and undergraduate researchers participate in separate divisions.

The forum provides valuable experience for students preparing for poster sessions at regional or national meetings, as well as gives them recognition for their work. The forum also is a setting for students to showcase new results and see what others are doing.

We invite student participants to present their advanced or preliminary research findings as a research poster. Cash prizes will include one grand prize and up to four merit awards for each center in the graduate student division and one grand prize for each center in the undergraduate student division. Each student may present only one paper but may be included as a coauthor on others.

For more information, see Forum, or contact Jill Fisher, program manager for ESC, at 487-3564 or at jhfisher@mtu.edu or Mary Tassava, program manager for BRC, at 487-2959 or at mltassav@mtu.edu .

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Nominations are now open for the DeVlieg Foundation Fellowships.  There are a number of changes to the competition this year, so please read the announcement carefully.

All graduate programs may nominate one eligible PhD student per program.  There will be two recipients – each will receive a stipend for summer 2012 plus support for one credit of tuition.  Eligible students will meet all of the following criteria:

1. Must be a graduate student in one of the fields supported by the DeVlieg Foundation:
   1. Engineering or a closely related field, OR
   2. Wildlife/biology
2. Must be a US citizen or permanent resident.
3. Must be enrolled in a PhD program.
4. Must be nominated by student’s graduate program.  Each PhD program may nominate one student.

Nominations are due no later than 4pm on February 16, 2012 to the Graduate School. Please address to the attention of Debra Charlesworth.

There will be no applications accepted this year for students at the MS level.

Please see our web page for details on the application procedure and materials needed.  Each program may determine its own internal selection procedure.

Please contact Debra Charlesworth with any questions.