Assistant Professor Pasi Lautala (CEE/MTTI) and Coordinator Joan Shumaker Chadde (CEE/MTTI), “CFIRE University Transportation Center-Tier 1,” University of Wisconsin-Madison, USDOT.
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2013 Green Film Series: Issues and Dialogue
Chasing Ice (76 min.)–7 p.m., Thursday, May 9, last film for spring 2013.
Location: Fisher 135–New Location
Time: 7:00-8:30 p.m.; enjoy coffee, dessert and facilitated discussion
Cost: FREE
Discussion Facilitator: Sarah Green, Chair, Dept. of Chemistry
We’ll host Green Lectures in the Fall and the 2014 Green Film Series will start in January 2014. Send suggestions for future films to Joan Chadde at jchadde@mtu.edu
ENG 5200 June 17-28, 2013
This is a great chance for current or future teachers to experience real-world engineering projects first hand, and then see how to integrate a scaled down version into a class project for students to solve physical science problems.
Learn more at Teacher Professional Development Summer Institutes.
Fall 2012 4.00
Huff, Rachael M JR SPSY
Shull, Catherine E FR SPSY
Veach, Emma G SR SPSY
Fall 2012 3.99-3.50
Bokor, David T SR SPSY
Cherubini-Sutinen, Alysa R JR SPSY
Deane, Katrina E JR SPSY
Dunham, Charles L SR SPSY
Evans, Zachary R FR SPSY
Harter, Kayla R SO SPSY
Lehman, William E JR
Mauer, Tessa K SR SPSY
Nelson, Bradley D SR SPSY
Nigro, Elizabeth A SR SPSY
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Joan Chadde conducted a Transportation Teacher Workshop on ” Traffic Operations and Safety,” for two dozen Detroit Public School Teachers on April 20 in collaboration with Tech CEE graduate Peter Savolainen, associate professor, civil and environmental engineering, at Wayne State University. This is a 3-part workshop series funded by the University of Wisconsin Madison Center for Freight Infrastructure Research and Education.
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Stuck in Chicago? Check out Stuck Huskies on Facebook
Audrey Mayer (SS) has started a new resource for the Tech community called “Stuck Huskies.” It is an open-to-the-public page where people who are on cancelled flights to/from Chicago can post on the wall to find ride shares back up to Houghton (or down to Chicago), buses, etc.
“I decided to establish it after a conversation with Shari Stockero (CLS),” Mayer said, “as we were both taking the bus up from Chicago after our flights were cancelled to Hancock.”
Visit the Facebook open group “Stuck Huskies.”
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Adam Blankenbicker, a Peace Corps Master’s International alumnus in geology, writes a science education blog called SciEd for the Public Library of Science (PLoS) web site.
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View some recent articles from Sci-Ed:
STEM and Liberal Arts: Frienemies of the State
April 1, 2013
Rolling your eyes at climate change education
March 4, 2013
The Metric System, the United States of America, and Scientific Literacy
January 28, 2013
What makes our lake “Superior?” A contest on that theme, along with displays, music, local food tasting, birthday cake and lemonade are all part of the fun planned for the Lake Superior Day celebration at the Great Lakes Research Center from 6 to 8 p.m. Tuesday, April 23.
Sponsored by the Lake Superior Stewardship Initiative in honor of its 5th anniversary, Lake Superior Day will feature two performances by Joe Reilly, an Ann Arbor singer-songwriter who is making a special stop on his Upper Peninsula tour.
Isle Royale National Park, Students for Sustainability and Keweenaw Land Trust’s Hungarian Falls Project will have displays, and tastes of local foods will be provided by Algomah Acres Honey Farm, Wood’n Spoon, Organic Heirloom Plants, G and A Farmers Market & Garden, Hidden Acres Farm, Good Bread, Gierke Blueberry Farm and Cafe Rosetta.
Tours of the GLRC and its aquaponics lab will be offered.
Lake Superior Day is free and open to the campus and community.
From Tech Today.
Tech, local community celebrate Lake Superior
More than 250 students, teachers, parents and community members packed Michigan Technological University’s Great Lakes Research Center Tuesday night for a celebration of Lake Superior.
“We are extremely pleased with the event and the terrific turnout by the community,” said Joan Chadde, education/outreach program coordinator for the Center for Science, Mathematics and Environmental Education.
Read more at the Mining Gazette, by Stephen Anderson.
Brad Baltensperger (chair, CLS) was co-presenter, along with co-authors from Ohio State, Michigan State, James Madison U., and Tulsa U, of, “The Forum BEVI Project Working Group: Findings, Applications, and Recommendations from Five Years of Research and Practice,” at the annual conference of the Forum on Education Abroad, held in Chicago, April 3 to 5.
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