Dr. Jason Carter and graduate student Huam Yang of the Department of Kinesiology and Integrative Physiology are researching how our nervous system reflects the state of our bodies health, and how we can improve it with non-pharmaceutical methods… [watch the video]
Lanrong Bi and Nazmiye Yapici are shining new light on the hidden processes within cells. For their groundbreaking research, Bi, an assistant professor of chemistry, and PhD candidate Yapici have received the Bhakta Rath Research Award. Working together, Bi and Yapici have developed fluorescent dyes with powerful new properties… [read more]
Like recent graduates, the class of 2012 comes of age during tough economic times and an uncertain job market. “A lot of diverse, diversity in terms of people coming from all nations from all over the world, but also diversity in terms of opportunities to engage with people from various backgrounds,” reflected Tsitsi Hungwe, a Molecular Biology and Biochemistry major… [read more]
Bruce Seely, dean of the sciences and arts, recently was in Korea and participated in several activities. He was an invited participant in an engineering workshop in Seoul, he delivered a nanotechnology talk at the Korean Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, and he talked about American technological universities at EducationUSA in Seoul… [read more]
Held in two buildings on campus this year, as well as on the Tech Trails, Michigan Tech’s 23rd annual Department of Biological Sciences Bioathlon featured a series of competitions for groups of students as well as workshops for teachers. All schools participated in the events Wednesday and each member of the first-place team received a $200 U.S. savings bond…. [read more]
Industrial archaeology studies the past and seeks to enshrine it as heritage. In that undertaking, archaeologist Tim Scarlett, of the Department of Social Sciences, has his eyes focused far into the future: he wants an ironclad way to preserve artifacts in order “to curate into perpetuity.” Scarlett and chemical engineering professor Gerard Caneba have received $25,000 from the National Park Service to research methods to combat rust, which is iron’s ill fortune… [read more]
Jason Carter, chair of the kinesiology and integrative physiology department, started us out with an overview of research at the SDC. Biology PhD student Huan Yang described her work on sleep deprivation. In Assistant Professor Karen Roemer’s biomechanics lab, biomed PhD student Stephanie Hamilton ran through routines to record movement… [read more]
Humanities faculty members Marilyn Cooper, Wendy Anderson, and Marika Seigel and students John Sherrill and David Clanaugh presented at the Conference on College Composition and Communication. At the Association of Teachers of Technical Writing were graduate student Joanna Schreiber, Professor Bob Johnson, and Assistant Professor Jingfang Ren… [read more]
From leading-edge research to extraordinary showmanship, few scientists have made as big an impact on their field as astrophysicist Robert Nemiroff, the corecipient of the 2012 Research Award. In nominating Nemiroff, physics professor Don Beck and Ravindra Pandey, chair of the physics department, cited his research based on gravitational lensing, noting that his groundbreaking predictions regarding binary stars, quasars and microlensing events have been proved correct…. [read more]
Michigan Tech ranks as the No. 1 Peace Corps Master’s International (PCMI) university nationwide for the seventh consecutive year. There are eight distinct PCMI graduate programs here, and the ones in the College of Sciences and Arts include Applied Science Education,Rhetoric and Technical Communication, and Biological Sciences… [read more]