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Bruce Seely Presents on NSF GRFP

Published October 10, 2012

Noon to 12:50 pm, Thursday, October 18, in the Pat Nelson Graduate Conference Center on the fourth floor of the Administration Building. Dr. Seely’s presentation is entitled “How to Write Exceptional NSF GRFP Letters of Recommendation.” He will discuss tips for writing exceptional letters that result in funding for graduate students.

Jason Carter Appointment at Mayo

Published October 9, 2012

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Jason Carter, chair of Kinesiology and Integrative Physiology and associate dean for the College of Sciences and Arts, has been appointed Adjunct Associate Professor of Physiology at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn. Carter has ongoing research collaborations with Mayo faculty in the field of neural control of circulation in humans.

Technical Communication Scholars to Converge on Tech

Published September 24, 2012

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Michigan Tech is hosting the 40th Annual Meeting of the Council for Programs in Technical and Scientific Communication (CPTSC) Thursday to Saturday, September 27 to 29. It is one of the largest international meetings of its kind, according to Ron Strickland, chair of the humanities department, and it brings many benefits with it.

Strickland said the annual meeting is also a chance to showcase the University’s humanities programs, faculty, and facilities. The humanities department will set up a couple of tables to present their publications and grants, one focusing on technical communication.

Read more at Tech Today, by Dennis Walikainen.

NY Times Article Leads to Scholarly Text

Published September 24, 2012

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Beatrice Smith was intrigued by an article she read in the New York Times: jobs were being outsourced to her native Ghana. Her curiosity led her into a yearlong study resulting in “Reading and Writing in the Global Workplace: Gender, Literacy, and Outsourcing in Ghana,” recently published by Lexington Books.

Smith, an associate professor of literacy studies in Michigan Tech’s humanities department, looked at data-processing work coming from US health care companies, utilities, municipalities and others.

Read more at Tech Today, by Dennis Walikainen.

SURFing at Tech

Published July 2, 2012

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Felicia Nip, a third-year biochemistry and molecular biology major, is one of the 20 recipients to receive a Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) award. Nip has a genetics and toxicology project with mentor Thomas Werner, assistant professor of genetics and developmental biology… [read more]

The Use of Visual Aids in Risk Communication Gets International Attention

Published June 5, 2012

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Assistant Professor of Psychology Edward Cokely and colleagues have published on risk literacy as communicated through the use of graphs and other visual aids. The work has received the attention of several European and American newspapers and websites. One of the publications earned a Best Paper Award by the American Psychological Association… [read more]

Heiden Researching Cancer-Fighting Drug Delivery System

Published June 1, 2012

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A team of Tech researchers, led by chemistry professor Patricia Heiden, is designing new polymers that can target cancer cells and be “tuned” to release specific doses of chemotherapy drugs into tumors while staying under the radar of the immune system… [read more]

Sex: It’s a Good Thing, Evolutionarily Speaking

Published May 29, 2012

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Native North American wildflowers are unusual in that a number of species reproduce asexually, essentially through cloning themselves. That allowed biologist Erika Hersch-Green and her colleagues to compare 16 species that reproduce sexually with an equal number that function asexually… [read more]

BRC Awards Travel Grants

Published May 14, 2012

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The Biotechnology Research Center announces the recipients of its Spring 2012 Travel Grants. Awards went out to graduate students in KIP, Chemistry, and Biology and to postdoc Shilei Zhu in Chemistry. Travel awards are for attending conferences and meetings… [read more]

Regulating Arterial Blood Pressure

Published May 10, 2012

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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]

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