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!
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.
Emma S. Norman (SS) was invited to present a paper at the Canadian Water Resources Association meeting in Vancouver, British Columbia on her forthcoming book, Water without Borders: Canada, the US and Shared Waters (University of Toronto Press). She also coordinated a panel discussion related to the transboundary water governance, in recognition that 2013 is the UN Year of Water Cooperation.
From Tech Today.
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.
TEDx event comes to Houghton
Dr. Timothy Scarlett is among the speakers for the upcoming TEDx event. He will be speaking on “A Vision for Industrial Heritage Professionals in the 21st Century.”
Read more at the Michigan Tech Lode, by Alex Saari.
TEDx Houghton Theme: Journeys
McArdle Theater
Houghton, MI, 49931
United States
March 23rd, 2013
9:30am-7:00pm
Venue and details at TED.
See the Facebook page Tedxhoughton.
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.
1913 Strike Exhibit in L’Anse
“Tumult and Tragedy: Michigan’s 1913-14 Copper Strike,” a traveling exhibit created by the Michigan Tech Archives, will be on display from March 4 to March 27 at the L’Anse Area School Public Library, located in L’Anse High School. The library will be open Monday-Friday, 7:30 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.
Read more at the Michigan Tech Archives Blog, by Erik Nordberg.
Library Matters: 1913 Strike Exhibit Visits L’Anse
The exhibit explores a turbulent period in Michigan’s historic copper mining district. On July 23, 1913, members of the Western Federation of Miners took to the streets over grievances about pay and working conditions.
Read more at Tech Today.
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.
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.