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.
Read more at Tech Today.
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.
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.
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]
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]
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]
