The Kansas City Star quoted Assistant Professor Steven Walton (SocSci) in an article about the Society for Industrial Archeology’s annual meeting in Kansas City and tours of historical industrial sites. The Society for Industrial Archeology is based at Michigan Tech. See the article here.
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A new study focused on solar-hybrid energy systems using cogeneration, photovoltaics and battery technology and its potential impact in the Upper Peninsula was picked up by several media outlets including Solar Thermal Magazine, Phys.org and e! Science News.
The research was conducted by Abhilash Katamneni (CS), Richelle Winkler (SS), Joshua Pearce (ECE/MSE) and Lucia Gauchia (ECE/ME).
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Chelsea Schelly (SS) is co-author of the article “To Frack or Not to Frack: Perceptions of the Risks and Opportunities of High-volume Hydraulic Fracturing in the United States,” published in Energy Research and Social Sciences.
Amanda Kreuze, who completed her MS in Environmental and Energy Policy in 2015 was a co-author.
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Steven Walton (SS) contributed the chapter “Heavy Artillery Transformed” in “Astride Two Worlds: Technology and the American Civil War” (Smithsonian Institution Press, 2016) by Barton C. Hacker (editor). The volume developed from a conference of the same name at the Smithsonian in 2012.
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J. Brad Barnett (PhD Candidate, SS), published a paper, “An evaluation of the UK’s use of SFM standards to procure solid woody biomass for electricity generation using sustainable bioenergy criteria”, in Biofuels, Vol. 7, No. 1, January 2016, pp. 1-11.
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Assistant Professor Don Lafreniere (SS) co-authored a paper, “Racist housing practices as a precursor to uneven neighborhood change in a post-industrial city” in the journal Housing Studies
Abstract:
Racial dynamics and discrimination have been extremely important in influencing decline in the American Rust Belt. The mid-twentieth century departure of white and middle-class populations from cities was precipitated by a breakdown of discriminatory housing practices. This study examines the relationship among housing condition, vacancies, poverty, and demographics in Flint, Michigan, from 1950 to 2010. Historical census data from the National Historical GIS and housing condition data from the City of Flint government are aggregated to neighborhoods defined by economic condition factor (n = 102). Results of rank-difference correlation and geographically weighted regression indicate that, across neighborhoods with the greatest decline in housing condition, the strongest correlate was most often the increase in vacancy rates driven initially by racially motivated suburbanization – suggesting that demographic change alone is not primarily responsible for neighborhood decline. This research is important to understanding the long-term and ongoing consequences of mid-twentieth century racist housing practices, particularly as it relates to the implications of maintaining legacy infrastructure.
Richelle Winkler (SS) coauthored a paper with PhD student Abhilash Kantamneni (CS) , Lucia Gauchia (ECE/ME) and Joshua Pearce (ECE/MSE) titled: Emerging economic viability of grid defection in a northern climate using solar hybrid systems in Energy Policy.
Audrey Mayer co-authored a paper titled “How Landscape Ecology Informs Global Land-Change Science and Policy” in BioScience. Mayer will appear on the podcast BioScience Talks (bioscienceaibs.libsyn.com) on June 8, 2016.
ScienceCodex, a science news website, published an article about Mayer’s BioScience journal article on the need for policymakers to pay attention to landscape ecology to make informed decisions for managing climate change, land use and urbanization.
Read more in a guest blog by Mayer in MTU’s Unscripted: Science and Research.
Adam Wellstead was a co-author in the paper “To Bridge the Divide between Evidence and Policy:Reduce Ambiguity as Much as Uncertainty” in Public Administration Review.
By Allison Mills –Michigan Tech News
March 25, 2016—
A study published this week in Sustainability explores the possibility for the arts to help sustain a shrunken industrial city in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. Community identity is a key part, and anyone who has walked down 5th Street in Calumet knows the weight of history and change. Click here to read the full article.