A biologist at Michigan Tech is working on a way to remove lead from soil that is simple, inexpensive, and, quite literally, green. Rupali Datta began her tests with vetiver grass back in 2004, when she was on the faculty of the University of Texas at San Antonio. “The city was removing lead paint in an old neighborhood, but there was still lots of lead in the soil,” she remembers. “The soil was tracked in the house as lead-laced dust…” [read more]
Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowships (SURF) have been awarded to seven students in the College of Sciences and Arts, in biological sciences, exercise science, physics, biochemistry/molecular biology, and computer science programs. SURF at Michigan Tech is funded by the Vice President for Research and the Honors Institute… [read more]
Stacey Frankenstein-Markon is serving in Uganda as part of Michigan Tech’s Peace Corps Master’s International (PCMI) program in applied science education. Brad Baltensperger, chair of the Department of Cognitive and Learning Sciences and program director of the PCMI Applied Science Education Program, and Casey Huckins, an associate professor of biological sciences who heads the University’s new PCMI in biological sciences, spent a week in Uganda to discuss the graduate students’ research… [read more]
Exactly what role the thousands of different small RNAs play has been a puzzle. Now, Guiliang Tang, an associate professor of biological sciences, has developed a way to put a single small RNA out of commission and observe what happens when it can’t do its job… [read more]
Assistant Professor of Psychology Edward Cokely has led an initiative to develop the Berlin Numeracy Test, which began in 2007 at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin, Germany. The study addresses risk literacy–the ability to comprehend and act on information about life’s many risks… [read more]
The GSG held its annual research colloquium on February 2-3, 2012. The 1st place award for a research presentation went to Huan Yang, Department of Kinesiology and Integrative Science. 2nd place went to Valoree Gagnon, Department of Social Sciences… [read more]
Professor of Physics Miguel Levy was recognized for outstanding and fundamental contributions in the areas of magneto-optic and opto-electronic films, and extensions of the theory and applications of magneto-optic photonic crystals. Election to the rank of Fellow is based on outstanding contributions to optics… [read more]
Syd Johnson, assistant professor of philosophy and adjunct professor of kinesiology and integrative physiology, has studied the impact of concussions and is joining those who urge revolutionary changes in hockey and football. Johnson promotes no body checking until elite level programs… [read more]
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]