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.
From Tech Today.
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.
Professor Richelle Winkler along with MTU students and Calumet area community members, Melissa Michaelson, Mayra Sanchez Gonzalez, Heather Simpson, and Lorri Oikarinen, published a paper titled “Boom, Bust and Beyond: Arts and Sustainability in Calumet, Michigan” in the academic journal, Sustainability, on March 21, 2016 about arts-based activities in Calumet, MI. The article is part of a series of articles about sustainability in the context of shrinking cities.
Adam Wellstead (SS) co-authored an article with Bryan Evans (Ryerson University, Toronto) “The Role of Non-government actors: In from the cold?” in Canadian Government Executive. Volume 22, Issue 2, pgs.8-10.
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Kari Henquinet, Chelsea Schelly, and Richelle Winkler are featured in the Research 2016 article titled Interdisciplinary Research 2.0 which highlights their involvement in interdisciplinary research at Michigan Tech. Research is published by University Marketing and Communications and the Vice President for Research Office at Michigan Technological University.