Faculty and graduate students from the Humanities Department are participating in the Digital Media and Learning Competition Project: Connect. They would like to share their project with the larger Michigan Tech community and ask for the public to show support by voting online.
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Michigan Tech has adopted the recommendation that the University provide lactation rooms throughout campus for faculty, students, staff and visitors. This list has been updated to include the Center for Diversity and Inclusion (CDI).
Campus lactation room locations are:
- Administration Building, 1st Floor
- Electrical Energy Resources Center (EERC), 1st Floor
- Great Lakes Research Center (GLRC), 1st Floor
- Lake Shore Center, 3rd Floor
- Citizen’s Bank, Ground Floor near lunch room
- Center for Diversity and Inclusion (CDI), 2nd Floor
At the end of the summer, two additional rooms will be open in the Mechanical Engineering-Engineering Mechanics building (MEEM), 4th Floor and the Student Development Center (SDC), 1st Floor.
Please contact Chris Anderson, 7-2474 or Jim Heikkinen, 7-2305 for questions.
The Graduate School is pleased to announce new theses and dissertations are now available in the J.R. van Pelt and Opie Library from the following programs:
- Applied Cognitive Science and Human Factors
- Biological Sciences
- Chemistry
- Civil Engineering
- Computer Science
- Electrical Engineering
- Environmental Engineering
- Forest Ecology and Management
- Forest Molecular Genetics and Biotechnology
- Geology
- Materials Science and Engineering
- Mechanical Engineering
- Mechanical Engineering-Engineering Mechanics
- Physics
The Graduate School is pleased to announce new dissertations are now available in the J.R. van Pelt and Opie Library from the following programs:
- Chemical Engineering
- Civil Engineering
- Computer Engineering
- Engineering Physics
- Forest Science
- Geological Engineering
- Mathematical Sciences
- Mechanical Engineering-Engineering Mechanics
The Graduate School is pleased to announce new theses are now available in the J.R. van Pelt and Opie Library from the following programs:
- Applied Ecology
- Biological Sciences
- Chemical Engineering
- Chemistry
- Computer Engineering
- Computer Science
- Environmental Engineering
- Forest Ecology and Management
- Forestry
- Geological Engineering
- Geology
- Mechanical Engineering
PhD student Hui Wang (MSE) is the first Michigan Tech student to receive the highly prestigious China National Award for Outstanding Graduate Students Abroad.
The award honors outstanding academic achievement and is extremely competitive. All of China’s graduate students studying abroad can apply, but no more than 500 awards are granted. In 2012, 489 students were recognized.
A total of 149 graduate students in the US received the award, including four from Michigan: Wang, one from Michigan State University and two from University of Michigan.
Wang, who received $6,000, is advised by Yun Hang Hu, the Charles and Caroll McArthur Professor. Her work focuses on the use of graphene to improve the efficiency of photovoltaic cells.
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Although her contributions to the teaching activities of her department are many, she is most known for developing and implementing novel teaching practices for online courses. One course is taken primarily by schoolteachers, and as Dr. Pennington notes in his nomination letter, “The schoolteachers in her online courses say that she does a terrific job, and I believe them; they know what they are talking about, and are not easy to please.” This semester, she is developing an online course with a set of laboratories that can be completed off campus for introductory students in Oceanography.
Dr. Guth earned her PhD in geology in spring 2013, and was advised by Dr. James Wood. Her research has taken her to Kenya for field work, and she has had the opportunity to participate as a teaching assistant with her advisor in a series of field courses for students from Michigan Tech and beyond. Her teaching is truly global.
Nominations are accepted each year for this award. Please consider nominating your outstanding graduate students next year. Full details on the nomination procedure are available online.
The Graduate School is pleased to announce that two students have earned fellowships from The DeVlieg Foundation. The DeVlieg Foundation has generously provided support for graduate students pursuing research in engineering, wildlife, and biology at Michigan Tech.
The recipients this year are:
- Anthony D. Matthys, PhD candidate in Biological Sciences
- Renee C. Oats, PhD candidate in Civil Engineering
Photographs and details of awards and fellowships coordinated by the Graduate School can be found online.
The Graduate School is pleased to announce the recipients of the spring 2013 finishing fellowships. The fellowships were made available by the support of the Graduate School.
The recipients were:
- Xiaochu Ding, PhD candidate in Chemistry
- Jiqing Fan, PhD candidate in Chemical Engineering
- Kevyn J. Juneau, PhD candidate in Forest Science
- Michael T. Kivisalu, PhD candidate in Mechanical Engineering-Engineering Mechanics
- Hui Wang, PhD candidate in Materials Science and Engineering
Finishing fellowship applications for fall 2013 are due no later than 4pm on June 20, 2013. Application procedures and photographs of recent recipients can be found online.
The Van Pelt and Opie Library is pleased to offer a new guide to citation searching, which can be found online. This guide, created specifically for faculty and graduate students at Michigan Tech, contains helpful information for researchers in all academic disciplines.
Save yourself hours of searching time by using the guide to learn how to:
- Determine if and where your publications have been cited
- Discover works related to other authors, articles, or topics
- Assess the relative quality or merit of a publication
If you have a suggestion for a database or other resource that should be added to the guide, please send an e-mail to reflib@mtu.edu or submit your suggestion using the link on the front page of the guide.