A Peace Corps information session will be held Thursday, March 20, at 6 p.m., in MUB Alumni Lounge B. Peace Corps Volunteers are making a difference all over the world in the areas of education, health and the environment. Stop by this information session to learn more about the benefits of service and how you can live, work and learn overseas after graduation.
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Graduate Student Government Travel Grant Award Winners for Spring 2014
Travel grants for spring 2014 have been awarded. Among the Presenting Travel Grants ($ 250) recipients are social sciences graduate students Mayra O. Sanchez Gonzalez and Ronesha Strozier.
The full list of graduate recipients can be accessed online.
Travel grants are awards that help subsidize cost of attending and presenting at conferences. These awards are sponsored by the Graduate Student Government (GSG) and the Graduate School. For more information on travel grants, please visit the webpage.
Should you have any questions, contact the GSG treasurer Jennifer Winikus (jawiniku@mtu.edu).
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The Cliff Mine Archeology Project Blog
Site Description—Part 1
What was (and is now) the ‘Function/Use’ of the Cliff?
The Classification of the Cliff Property
Temporal Boundaries
First Things First: Defining Boundaries
What is the National Register of Historic Places?
The blog is back. Happy 2014!
Payments to Upstream Landowners to Protect Water Downstream: How Well is that Working
Two researchers from Michigan Technological University have joined with natural and social scientists from three other universities and the US Forest Service to study the impact of Mexico’s water payment program.
“Our findings will help governments, non-governmental organizations, the World Bank and others who might promote programs like these to design their programs to be as effective as possible,” said Alex Mayer, professor of civil and environmental engineering at Michigan Tech and co-principal investigator (PI) on Tech’s part of the research.
The project is highly interdisciplinary, Mayer added. That’s why his co-PI is Kathleen Halvorsen, a professor of natural resource policy at Michigan Tech.
“We want to know what the landowners and the communities downstream from them know about watersheds and pollution,” Halvorsen explained.
Read more at Michigan Tech News, by Jennifer Donovan.
In March 2009, Michigan Technological University industrial archaeology alumnus Stathi Pappas purchased the Santa Cruz Portland Cement Company No. 2 Engine and began restoring it in his Mineral, Wash.,, shop.
As true living history, he says, they run them like they ran them, break them like they broke them, fix them like they fixed them, and repeat.
“From an anthropological standpoint, we want to understand that subculture and act accordingly,” Pappas says. “It’s a social movement as well as a professional rebuild.”
Read more at Michigan Tech News, by Dennis Walikainen.
4.0 Students
Wolfe-Michaelson Melissa M* SO SANT
3.50-3.99 Students
Atkinson Alexander C JR SANT
Berg Jordan G SR SANT
Kirschner Allyssa A SR SSS
Marcinkowski Brian J SR SSH
Spoehr MaryBeth E SR SSS
Tabor Veronica A SR SSS
Trotter Katherine E JR SANT
Whydell Alexander J FR SSH
Adam Wellstead (SS) has published “Responding to a Forest Catastrophe: The Emergence of New Governance Arrangements in Southern California” in ISRN Economics Volume 2014 (2014), Article ID 982481.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/982481
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Almost a hundred elementary, middle and high school students will compete at the District 1 regional event for Michigan History Day on Saturday, March 1, from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m., at Michigan Tech in the MUB. Finalists in the youth, junior and senior divisions will move on to the state contest on April 26 at Saline Middle School.
Michigan History Day is an educational program of the Historical Society of Michigan and offers a fascinating opportunity to move social science beyond routine learning. Students perform research on an individually chosen topic. They then present their work through the disciplines of writing, art, literature, music, drama and/or visual communications.
“We are expecting a lot of great entries this year,” said Tamara Barnes, Michigan History Day state coordinator. “The students applied this year’s theme—Rights and Responsibilities in History—to create a variety of performances, exhibits, papers, websites and documentaries. We’re excited to see what topics in history come out of this year’s competition.”
Participants from District 1 include students from Houghton-Portage Township Schools, Hancock Public Schools, Lake Linden, Chassell, and Dollar Bay. The public is invited to attend the event. The District 1 competition is sponsored by Michigan Tech.
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Sponsors
The MHD District 1 coordinators, John Robins and Steven Walton, would like to thank the generous sponsorship of the Dept. of Social Sciences (MTU), the University Archives and Historical Collections (MTU), and the Quincy Mine Hoist Association. IN addition, we would like to thank the two dozen volunteers who will be helping judge, staff tables, and make sure the A/V is operating properly.
Dan Schneider will present “A First-Hand and Historical Perspective on the Practice of Letterpress Printing.” on Friday, Feb. 28, at 4 p.m., in AOB 201. Schneider is a master’s student in Social Sciences and the letterpress printer at the Copper Country Community Arts Center in Hancock. He will be talking about letterpress printing as a work process.
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Solar energy for Greek houses
Dr. Chelsea Schelly is launching a new project in the next month that will give college students in the Houghton-Hancock area the opportunity to test out a small solar generator paired up with a large solar panel mounted directly to their house.
As a sociologist, Schelly is studying the way students think about solar energy once they have exposure to this solar technology.
Read more at the Michigan Tech Lode, by Lucas Wilder.
