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Summer School 2013 at Cliff Mine

Published March 5, 2013

Archeology for Everybody: Summer School at the Cliff Mine

During the first summer session, Tech students and those from other colleges and universities, high school students and community seniors are all being invited to apply for the Cliff Mine Project’s fourth field research season.

The field research project runs from May 13 through June 28, led by Associate Professors Timothy Scarlett and Samuel Sweitz (Social Sciences), working closely with project archaeologists Sean Gohman and Lee Presley.

Read more at Tech Today, by Jenn Donovan.

Mayra Sanchez Gonzalez and SFI

Published February 28, 2013

By College of Engineering

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.

Dyble Presents on Calumet River

Published February 26, 2013

By College of Engineering

Louise Nelson Dyble presented a paper on her current research on Chicago’s Calumet River entitled, “Fate of the Calumet: Continuity and Confluence between Economic Policy and the Urban Environment.” The paper was presented as part of the “Conference on Rivers, Cities, Historical Interactions” at the Rachel Carson Center in Munich, Germany, Feb. 21-23.

From Tech Today.

Fort Wilkins Survey Funding for Martin and Gohman

Published February 26, 2013

By College of Engineering

Department Chair Patrick Martin, PI, and PhD Candidate Sean Gohman, Co-PI (SS), have received $19,342 for “A Proposal for Archaeological Survey Services, Phase I Survey of Fort Wilkins State Park: Southern Boundary” from the Michigan Department of Natural Resources.

From Tech Today.

Winkler Speaks on Rural Community Sustainability

Published February 22, 2013

By College of Engineering

Environmental Engineering Graduate Seminar

Assistant Professor Richelle Winkler (SS) will present “Rural Community Sustainability: Research, Applications, and Engagement in Calumet”, Monday, Feb. 25, at 3 p.m. in GLRC 201 and all are welcome to attend.

From Tech Today.

Liu at GRC 2013

Published February 14, 2013

By College of Engineering

Graduate student Fangming Liu in Social Sciences will be giving a poster presentation at the Graduate Research Colloquium 2013. The presentationswill take place on the second day of the colloquium, February 22, 2013, in the MUB Ballrooms A & B. Presenters, abstracts, and schedules are posted on the Graduate Student Government website.

Day 2 Feb 22 Poster Presentations 10am-12pm
Fangming Liu

Louise Nelson Dyble Publishes on the Chicago Skyway

Published February 13, 2013

By College of Engineering

Louise Nelson Dyble, has authored,”The Chicago Skyway in Illinois: Implications of Local Initiative, Decentralized Control, and Independent Financing,” in Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, No. 2297. 2012, pp. 121-127.

From Tech Today.

Proposal in Progress for February 5, 2013

Published February 6, 2013

By College of Engineering

Associate Provost and Dean Jacqueline E. Huntoon (Grad), Assistant Professor Mark Rouleau (SS) and Lecturer Kari Henquinet (SS), “AGEP-BPR: Developing a Model for Successful University/Industry Partnerships for Broadening Participation,” NSF.

From Tech Today.

Richelle Winkler on Lakes and Community

Published February 4, 2013

By College of Engineering

Richelle Winkler (SS) has coauthored “Lakes and community: The importance of natural landscapes in social research,” in Society and Natural Resources, Volume 26, Issue 2, 2013.

From Tech Today.

Winkler Publishes on Lake Living

Published January 30, 2013

By College of Engineering

Richelle Wrinkler, assistant professor of sociology and demography, has recently published an article, “Living on lakes: Segregated communities and social exclusion in a natural amenity destination,” in The Sociological Quarterly.

From Tech Today.

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