The Department of Social Sciences’ Industrial Archaeology Program was recently the topic of two stories featured in the Daily Mining Gazette giving an insight to industrial archaeology. Click on the title to read more:
False move blows up history: Industrial sites often have complicated archaeologies
Industrial Archaeology: Field goes beyond record to find escaped history
Erin Pischke (EEP) received two graduate student awards at the Graduate Research Colloquium Banquet held on February 16, 2017. Pischke won a Graduate Student Government merit award for Exceptional Graduate Student Leader and the Graduate Student Service Award.
Congratulations Erin!
Read more and watch the video at ABC10 UP, by Rick Allen.
Complete list of winners:
The GRC is held each year by the Graduate Student Government at Michigan Tech.
Dan Trepal, IHA PhD student, recently had a post published by the Canadian Historical Geographic Information Systems Partnership titled: Map Your History! Building and Sharing a Historical Spatial Data Infrastructure with the Keweenaw Time Traveler Project. Dan discusses the historical GIS infrastructure underpinning the Keweenaw Time Traveler Project (headed by Co-PIs Dr. Don Lafreniere, Dr. Sarah Scarlett, and IHA PhD candidate John Arnold ) and describes some of the upcoming public outreach activities the KeTT Team has planned for this spring and summer.
Waste Advantage Magazine published an article about the state of recycling in Houghton and Hancock, citing a study by Richelle Winkler’s (SS) class that kicked off a successful curbside recycling campaign.
Adam Wellstead (SS) co-edited “Policy Work in Canada: Professional Practices and Analytical Capacities” in University of Toronto Press. It can be found here.
Chelsea Schelly was quoted in the Sierra Magazine article Think Your Household Is Susatinable? Think Again. Schelly is a co- principal investigator on the project, “Reducing Household Food, Energy and Water Consumption: A Quantitative Analysis of Interventions and Impacts of Conservation.”, that has received a $1,477,068 grant from the National Science Foundation.
Audrey Mayer (SS) authored an article in Science discussing work-life balance as a researcher, professor and single mom. In her words, “I’ve come to appreciate that there is no one schedule that best produces excellent science or demonstrates dedication to its practice.”
Aparajita Banerjee (who recently completed her PhD in Environmental and Energy Policy), Chelsea Schelly (SS) and Kathleen E. Halvorsen (SS/SFRES) recently published the article “Understanding Public Perceptions of Wood-based Electricity Production in Wisconsin, United States: Place-based Dynamics and Social Representations” in the journal Environmental Sociology. It is available via Online First.
The article is based on research conducted with the support of funding from the National Science Foundation’s Partnerships in International Research and Education (PIRE) Program IIA #1243444 and Research Coordination Network (RCN) Program CBET #1140152.
Jonathan Robins (SS) was interviewed by investigative reporter Peter Guest for a story in Raconteur Magazine on the growth of oil palm plantations in Southeast Asia. Robins discusses factors which contributed to the emergence of palm oil as the most important fat in the global food system.
You can read the article on medium.com.
GeoConnexion, a UK based geotechnology magazine, featured an article about the partnership project between MTU Social Scientist’s Don Lafreniere and Sarah Scarlett and the Keweenaw National Historical Park to bring GIS-based career education to local high school students. Read the article.