Cool Game Here
David Lankton, son of Professor Emeritus Larry Lankton, is designing a board game called Copper Country, largely inspired by his dad’s work.
Lankton and his co-developers are planning a Kickstarter campaign for May or June.
Steven Walton’s article “Proto-Scientific Revolution or Cookbook Science? Early gunnery manuals in the craft treatise tradition,” has been published in Craft Treatises and Handbooks: The dissemination of technical knowledge in the Middle Ages, ed. by Ricardo Cordoba, De Diversis Artibus 91 (Brepols, 2013), pp. 221-36.
ISBN: 978-2-503-54439-7
Emma Norman (SS) has published “Taking the ‘Frogs Eye View’: How Place Based Learning and Talking Circles Foster Life-Long Learning,” in the American Indian College Fund: Mellon Tribal College Research Journal. 1(1) 162-190.
Portage Library Hosts Environmental Assessment Presentation about Torch Lake
The Portage Lake District Library will host a panel discussion about the “Impacts of Legacy Mining on Torch Lake” on Tuesday, April 22, at 7 p.m.
Michigan Tech faculty members Noel Urban (CEE), Carol MacLennan (SS) and Judith Perlinger (CEE) will give a three-part presentation on Torch Lake and will answer questions from the audience afterwards.
Adam Wellstead (SS) has co-authored “The Distribution of Analytical Techniques in Policy Advisory Systems: Policy Formulation and the Tools of Policy Appraisal,” in Public Policy and Administration. It is available online.
doi: 10.1177/0952076714524810
Carol MacLennan (SS) has published a book titled “Sovereign Sugar: Industry and Environment in Hawai`i,” with the University of Hawai’i Press. The table of contents and an introductory chapter can be found online.
ISBN: 978-0-8248-3949-9
In the News
Carol MacLennan (SS) was interviewed by Chris Vandercook on Hawaii Public Radio about her new book “Sovereign Sugar” on Tuesday, April 1.
Listen to the full 8:00 minute interview at Hawaii Public Radio.
Dean Terry Sharik (SFRES) will present, “The Future of Natural Resource Science at Michigan Tech” at the Social Sciences Colloquia, Friday, April 4, at 4 p.m., AOB 201.
Hugh Gorman, professor of environmental history and policy, won one of two second prizes awarded for GAIA Best Paper Award 2013, “Learning from 100 Years of Ammonia Synthesis. Establishing Human-Defined Limits through Adaptive Systems of Governance.”
GAIA Best Paper Award
One Gold, Two Silver
GAIA’s Editorial Board also agreed on two second prizes. They were awarded to Thomas Jahn, Wissenschaft für eine nachhaltige Entwicklung braucht eine kritische Orientierung and Hugh S. Gorman, Learning from 100 Years of Ammonia Synthesis. Establishing Human-Defined Limits through Adaptive Systems of Governance.
Professor Mary Durfee speaks on Ukraine issue
Mary Durfee, Associate Professor of Government in the Department of Social Sciences, was interviewed by TV6 & FOX UP on Wednesday, March 26, 2014, on the situation in the Ukraine. Dr. Durfee mentions that sending in troops to help protect the border is a real possibility.
Watch the video interview of Mary Durfee with morning anchor Vicky Crystal.
Guest article: Minewater Geothermal on the Keweenaw Peninsula
On December 12, 2013, a group of student researchers from Michigan Technological University presented their report on “Exploring the Social Feasibility of Minewater Geothermal in Calumet.” The students, led by Prof. Richelle Winkler, had spent their Fall semester devising and implementing a study to aid the Calumet community in the process of deciding whether and how we might best use this untapped resource.