Humanities News, Features, and Other Updates

Michigan Tech students Ameya Narkar and Amie Ledgerwood have been awarded grants to benefit Michigan Tech and the local community.

Narkar secured a $5,000 grant from the Office for Young Adult and Campus Ministries of the Episcopal Church for Michigan Tech’s Canterbury House, an organization to support international students and their families.

Ledgerwood won a $5,000 grant from the Michigan Space Grant Consortium to provide funding for local elementary students to study the Keweenaw’s unique geo-heritage.

Both students wrote their grants as part of the fall 2014 grant writing course, HU 4694.

Valorie Troesch, Adjunct Faculty in the Pavlis Honors College and a doctoral candidate in Rhetoric, Theory and Culture (Humanities) has published an article in the June 2015 issue of IEEE Technology and Society Magazine. Her article is entitled, “Teaching Engineering Ethics: A Phenomenological Approach.”

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From Tim Colling PhD., P.E., Director – Center for Technology & Training Michigan Tech University:

Over the past few months Andi Barajas (full time CTT  staff and part time STC student), Cassandra Matchinski and  Stephanie Hubble (both full time STC student and CTT interns) have been working with Shaughn Kern and Carol Reynolds (full time professional technical writers at CTT) to develop logos for the National Local Technical Assistance Program Association (NLTAPA http://www.ltap.org/about/) as part of a national competition.  The NLTAP Association represents the 58 LTAP and TTAP (tribal) centers across the US.  On an annual basis the centers jointly  train over 174,000 people, in  nearly 6,200 training sessions, and circulate more than 795,000 publications according to the NLTAP website.  The LTAP/TTAP program has been in existence since 1982 when it was formed by the US Federal Highway Administration (FHWA).

I’m happy to announce that  Stephanie Hubble’s entry was selected to be the new logo for the national association and will be used on official NLTAPA business systems such as letterhead and the website.  I also understand that two of the Michigan Tech submitted entries for the competition made the top three.  I think competing and winning on a national level is a testament to the skills and creativity that our staff and students have.  The winning logo will be announced/unveiled at the NLTAPA annual conference in Savannah, GA on July 20^th.  Unfortunately Stephanie is overseas this summer and will not be able to attend the conference to receive the award, however a Andi will be at the conference accepting the award for the center.

Congratulations to all of the staff and students that worked on this competition.

The Graduate School has announced the awarding of finishing fellowships to the following outstanding PhD candidates, including the Humanities Department’s own Gary Kaunonen:

Abraham Romney (Humanities) Published “Rhetoric from the Margins: Juan Francisco Manzano’s Autobiografía de un esclavo” in the Journal Rhetoric Society Quarterly.

(This article originally appeared in Tech Today.)