L. Syd M Johnson (HU) participated in the Animal Research Neuroethics Workshop at the Center for Neuroscience and Society at the University of Pennsylvania.
Nominations are now open for the 2016 Council of Graduate Schools (CGS)/ProQuest Distinguished Dissertation Award.
This year, nominations are being accepted from dissertations in the fields of:
- Mathematics, Physical Sciences and Engineering
- Social Sciences (note: history is classed within humanities and is not a field of competition in 2016)
Michigan Tech may nominate one student in each field. PhD students who have completed all of their degree requirements between July 1, 2014 and June 30, 2016 are eligible. The fields of competition for 2017 will be humanities/fine arts and biological and life sciences.
The deadline to submit nominations is 4 p.m. Monday, June 20 following the online instructions. Nominations must be delivered to Debra Charlesworth in the Graduate School. Emailed nominations to gradschool@mtu.edu are preferred. Contact Debra Charlesworth if you have any questions about the competition.
(This article originally appeared in Tech Today.)
L. Syd M Johnson (HU) was interviewed for an article on brain death at popular web site Big Think. The article is entitled “A Company Is Trying to Resurrect the Brain Dead, a Really Bad Idea.”
L. Syd M Johnson (HU) published “Reversing brain death: An immodest proposal” in Impact Ethics.
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.
Three Humanities faculty members have been awarded Scholarship and Creativity Grants as part of the Research Excellence Fund (REF) Awards.
- Marcelino Viera-Ramos, Humanities
- Abraham Romney, Humanities
- Stefka Hristova, Humanities
Congratulations!
Need a break from studying? Or simply want to take a moment to relax? Then stop by and enjoy an immersive soundscape accompanied by projected visuals. “Aural Canvas Vol.1: Ambient Fields” features eight paintings recontextualized through the use of sound design and music.
Located in Walker 211 (a.k.a the McArdle Dressing Room) and will be open to visitors the following dates and times:
April 22, 25 & 26 // 10 a.m. – 6 p.m.
April 23 & 24 (Saturday and Sunday) // 12 p.m. – 5 p.m.
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.
Denise Sekaquaptewa, professor of psychology, associate chair, and associate director, ADVANCE at the University of Michigan will speak on her experimental research. Dr. Sekaquaptewa’s research program focuses on implicit stereotyping, prejudice, stereotype threat and effects of category salience on test performance and academic motivation. Her current projects include studies of how environmental factors influence women students in math and science and how stereotypes affect interracial communication. After the presentation, we’ll have an open forum discussion on advancing a positive climate at Michigan Tech. Refreshments will be served.
When: Thursday, April 21 in MUB Ballroom B2, 3:30 – 4:30 p.m. For more information visit the site.
RSVP here to let us know you’re coming.
Hosted by Michigan Tech Women in Science and Engineering, and the Pavlis Honors College
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.