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]
The vice president for research is pleased to announce this year’s recipients of the Research Excellence Fund Awards, which total $515,000. Recipients in the College of Sciences and Arts include Michael Gretz, Charles Kerfoot, Kari Henquinet, Kedmon Hungwe, Ranjana Mehta, Thomas Werner, Qing-Hui Chen, Stefaan De Winter, Amy Marcarelli, Rebecca Schmitz, Xiaoqing Tang, Thomas Werner, Lanrong Bi, Bahne Cornilsen, and Haiying Liu… [read more]
A team of Michigan Technological University scientists has used nanotechnology to keep the chemicals inside the wood where they belong. “It’s a new method that uses nanoparticles to deliver preservatives into the lumber,” said chemistry professor Patricia Heiden. “In our experiments, it reduced the leaching of biocides by 90 percent…” [read more]
The Ecosystem Science Center (ESC) and the Biotechnology Research Center (BRC) announce award recipients of the Seventh Annual ESC/BRC Student Research Forum, held March 25. Awards to graduate students in the College of Sciences and Arts include a $100 Merit Award from ESC to Meagan L. Harless in Biological Sciences and $100 Merit Awards from BRC to Surendar Reddy Dhadi in Biological Sciences and Xiaochu Ding in Chemistry… [read more]