Category: Research

Peace Corps Volunteer Tackles a Sensitive Women’s Health Problem in Uganda

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]

Social Sciences Graduate Student Will Represent Tech for MAGS Competition

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]