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Assistant Professor Louise Dyble Awarded NEH Fellowship

Published April 11, 2013

Assistant Professor of History Louise Dyble (SS), has been awarded a fellowship from the National Endowment of Humanities (NEH). From the NEH website:

“The NEH Summer Stipends program provides awards for individuals to pursue scholarly work in the humanities during the summer. Projects may contribute to scholarly knowledge in a particular discipline or to the general public’s understanding of the humanities, and they may address broad topics or focused research in a single field. Recipients typically produce scholarly articles, books, archeological site reports, translations, editions, or other scholarly tools in either traditional print or electronic formats.”

From Tech Today.

Orthober Among the Thesis Award Nominees

Published April 2, 2013

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The Graduate School is pleased to announce that Evan Anderson is Michigan Tech’s nominee for the Midwestern Association of Graduate Schools Distinguished Thesis Award.

Three other graduate students were also nominated for consideration. Jean DeClerck was nominated by her advisors, Ann Brady and Wendy Anderson (HU) and committee member Victoria Bergvall (HU). Nathan Kelley-Hoskins was nominated by his advisor, Petra Hüntemeyer (Physics). Andrew Orthober was nominated by his advisor, Carol MacLennan (SS). All of the nominations were noteworthy for their scholarship, and the evaluation panel had a difficult task in selecting one nominee to represent Michigan Tech.

Read more at Tech Today, by the Graduate School.

Dining Services 2013 Scholarship for Kimberly Garthe

Published March 22, 2013

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Reinhart Dining Services 2013 Scholarships Announced

Dining Services is pleased to announce that eight $1,000 scholarships have been awarded through its prime vendor partnership with Reinhart Food Services.

The scholarships support undergraduate students who have worked two semesters for Dining Services, are currently working for Dining Services, and have exemplified the values of the University through their employment experience, while maintaining their grade point average.

Among the recipients is Anthropology major Kimberly Garthe, who served at Douglass Houghton Hall.

Griskavich awarded Field Museum Internship

Published March 19, 2013

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Carol Griskavich, graduate student in Industrial Archaeology, has been awarded a 10-week paid internship at the Field Museum in Chicago. She will be starting May 13 and will be assisting in interviews with residents of the south Chicago and northwest Indiana region in the industrial and cultural memory of the region. The research feeds into the Environment, Culture, and Conservation (ECCO) Project and Cultural Heritage areas at the Field Museum and will also become part of her M.S. thesis on industrial heritage tours of the region. Congratulations, Carol!

Audrey Mayer Coordinates SFRES PCMI

Published March 15, 2013

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Forestry Names Peace Corps Master’s International Program Coordinator

Associate Professor Audrey Mayer (SFRES, Soc Sci) has been named coordinator of the School of Forest Resources and Environmental Sciences Peace Corps Master’s International programs. SFRES offers two PCMI master’s degrees, a Master of Science in Forestry and a Master of Science in Forest Ecology and Management.

Read more at Tech Today, by Jenn Donovan.

Winkler on National Steering Committee

Published March 8, 2013

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Richelle Winkler, assistant professor of sociology and demography, has been selected to serve a three-year term on the American Community Survey (ACS) Data Users Group National Steering Committee.

Mayra Sanchez Gonzalez and SFI

Published February 28, 2013

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Cold Treat to (Cool) Tech Education: Mexican Grad Student Finds a New Home

“I went out for an ice cream cone,” Mayra Sanchez Gonzalez says, of a routine journey in her native city of Merida, Mexico, on the Yucatan Peninsula. “I noticed this man asking directions in English, and the store clerk couldn’t help him.”

The man was Richard Donovan, operations manager of Michigan Technological University’s Sustainable Futures Institute (SFI).

Sanchez Gonzalez wound up receiving a very competitive Mexican government scholarship to pursue a PhD in Environmental and Energy Policy at Tech and do research on her native Yucatan. Her work is part of a $5 million National Science Foundation grant with Donovan, Shonnard and others.

Read more at Michigan Tech News, by Dennis Walikainen.

Spoehr Nominated for the Truman Scholarship

Published February 6, 2013

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MaryBeth Spoehr, law and society major, has been nominated by the University for the Truman Scholarship. She is an ROTC cadet and on the women’s varsity soccer team.

The Truman Scholarship has two missions. First, to find and recognize college juniors with exceptional leadership potential who are committed to careers in government, the nonprofit or advocacy sectors, education or elsewhere in the public service; and, second, to provide them with financial support for graduate study, leadership training, and fellowship with other students who are committed to making a difference through public service.

From Tech Today.

Sladek Wins First Prize in National Geographic Contest

Published January 27, 2013

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Lindsey Sladek is a First Prize Winner in National Geographic’s “The Full Story” contest. The photo competition was for amateurs. Sladek’s gallery is entitled “Music.”

Sladek came “home” to Tech to take coursework in the Department of Social Sciences for a social studies secondary education certificate; she got her BS in Anthropology from Grand Valley State University in 2008.

Local photographer places in National Geographic contest

She, along with four individual winners, won a Nikon D600 to shoot the full visual story she had pitched to compete for a shot at the grand prize, a trip to the Galapagos Islands with National Geographic Digital Nomad Andrew Evans. She had from Dec. 17 to Jan. 7 to shoot the story, using only the new D600 camera.

Read more at the Mining Gazette, by Stephen Anderson.

Photo Contest: The Full Story

Last fall these five talented amateur photographers each won a new Nikon D600 with which they shot their own FULL STORY.

Henquinet Promoted to SAA Fellow

Published January 4, 2013

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Dr. Kari Henquinet has been promoted to Fellow status in the Society for Applied Anthropology through unanimous approval by the Society’s Board of Directors. The primary objective of the Society for Applied Anthropology is the scientific investigation of the principles controlling the relations of human beings to one another and the wide application of those principles to practical problems.

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