Robert Nemiroff of the Department of Physics presented at the American Astronomical Society meeting this month on gamma ray bursts. The work was on a race between two energetic photons that began more than 7 billion years ago and spanned half the cosmos, ending in a virtual dead heat… [read more]
Valoree Gagnon is Michigan Tech’s nominee for the Midwestern Association of Graduate Schools Distinguished Thesis Award. Gagnon is now a PhD student in environmental and energy policy, her work is funded by a National Science Foundation fellowship, and she was nominated for the thesis award by her advisor, Associate Professor Carol MacLennan, of the Department of Social Sciences… [read more]