On Wednesday, May 11, the Humanities Department’s Dieter Adolphs, Associate Professor of German Language and Literature, was recognized for 30 years’ service at Michigan Tech. The ceremony took place at the Memorial Union Ballroom awards dinner.
The Rozsa Center and Michigan Tech’s Department of Visual And Performing Arts present the final exhibit by sculpture and 3D design students in collaboration with HumanitiesLiterary Survey students. The exhibit, “Extraction,” will feature a public reception from 5 to 6:30 p.m. tomorrow (April 21) in Rosza “gallery b,” the Rozsa’s experimental Project Learning Lab gallery space. The exhibit is free and open to the public.
On display will be “Call and Response,” a collaboration between Sculpture and 3-D design students with Laura Fiss’s (HU) Literary Survey class. Students will also showcase a collection of sculptures, a series of drawings, and four “traditional lathes,” designed and fabricated by students.
Gallery hours are 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. Monday-Friday, noon to 8 p.m. Saturday. The gallery is free and open to the public.
L. Syd M Johnson (HU) was a featured speaker via Skype at a public screening and panel discussion of the film “Concussion”, at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, on April 18. For more information, click here.
by Maria Bergstrom
A summer, online German language course and an interest in study abroad have paved the way for ME student and German minor, Alden Groen, to participate in a unique and prestigious opportunity to study and work abroad in Germany as one of only 75 American students selected for the Congress Bundestag Youth Exchange for Young Professionals. Alden will travel to Germany this coming July for two months of intensive language study, a four-month study abroad experience at a German University, and a five-month internship with a German engineering company.
It all began for Alden when he enrolled in a summer online introductory German language course at Michigan Tech with Professor Karin Schlenker. He was interested in learning a second language and drawn to German because of Germany’s strong reputation in engineering and technology. Alden enjoyed the course so much he followed up with another semester on campus and began looking for an opportunity to study abroad in Germany. With help from International Programs and Services, Alden found a six-week program in Stuttgart for the following summer. As part of the home stay program, Alden lived with a German family in Stuttgart for the full six weeks, which, he says, was one of the highlights of his time there. He was able to experience everyday German family life in the evenings, while during the days he was studying with other students from all over the world. In addition to the U.S., students in the program came from Mexico, Canada, Singapore and other nations. “I learned as much about the world from my fellow students as I did from being in Germany,” Alden says.
Six weeks was not enough time in Germany to satisfy Alden, and he found himself looking for a way to return. After doing a summer-fall engineering co-op at Kohler Company, Alden learned about the Congress Bundestag exchange program. Professor Schlenker, who supported his application, says, “Alden’s previous study abroad experiences really helped make him a good candidate for this program. He was able to show that he is adaptable and ready for the challenges of a cross-cultural experience.”
While engineering majors sometimes think they don’t have time for language study or a study abroad experience, Alden is a strong advocate for both. He found language study to be “a really interesting way to fulfill HASS credits in a connected way. Even with only a couple of classes, you can get some use from the language.” As for study abroad, “Everyone should definitely try to do it. If it’s a money thing, look for scholarships and financial aid. If it’s a time thing, consider a six week program in the summer. You can learn so much in just six weeks.”
Three members of the Humanities Department each presented papers at the Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies Conference in Asheville, North Carolina. Andrew Fiss presented “Studying Objects, Objectifying Students: Natural History at Women’s Colleges in New York State: 1861-1875;” Laura Kasson-Fiss presented “The Unnatural Club in Late-Victorian Light Humor: The Diogenes Club and Beyond;” and Dana VanKooy presented “The Aesthetics of Atlantic History.”
This article originally appeared in Tech Today.
L. Syd M Johnson (HU) has co-authored “The Ethics of Nonhuman Primate Research” with Andrew Fenton (Fresno State) published at Impact Ethics.
L. Syd M Johnson (HU) has published “Inference and Inductive Risk in Disorders of Consciousness” in American Journal of Bioethics Neuroscience volume 7; issue 1.
Click here to read the abstract.
The Enterprise Program at Michigan Technological University has awarded its Carnahan Enterprise Scholarship to STC major Rachel Nankervis.
The scholarship for students pursuing undergraduate degrees in Scientific and Technical Communications (STC) or Business and Economics is funded by Dr. Robert D. Carnahan, class of 1953. Key responsibilities of a scholarship-winning STC major include public relations and reporting for her enterprise team.
Congratulations, Rachel!
The Department of Humanities and the Van Pelt and Opie Library are hosting a cartoon exhibition, Drawing Freely, in the library entrance. The Institut Français and Courrier International present this exhibition on freedom of expression as embodied by fifty press cartoonists from all around the world. Some of the themes treated by the cartoonists are: women’s voices, racism, corruption, dangers online, the new rebels, Charlie Hebdo, etc.
Jordan Dagenais, an STC major, has been selected as the 2016-17 Humanities Department Scholar. He and other departmental scholars will be recognized at the 2016 Student Leadership Awards, to be held on Friday April 15, 2016, from 6:00 – 8:00 PM in the MUB Ballroom.