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Guinness Makes It Official: Biggest Snowball Honor Returns to Michigan Tech
HOUGHTON (WWJ) – In 2006, Michigan Technological University was basking in Guinness glory, having nabbed three wintry world records. But records are made to be broken, and one by one, each toppled in...
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Fall Career Fair Features New Companies and Veteran Recruiters
By Dennis Walikainen HOUGHTON – With 264 companies registered for Michigan Technological University’s Fall Career Fair on Tuesday, Sept. 24, recruiters run the gamut from new to returning to...
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Electrical Engineer Turns Particle Physics into Art
By Kevin Hodur HOUGHTON – Particle accelerators are massive structures, used to find the tiniest details of our universe. Scientists around the world flock to these facilities to try out theories, hunt...
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MTEC SmartZone, MTU Career Services, Employers, Students Connect At Career Fair
HOUGHTON (WWJ) – The MTEC Smart Zone’s satellite office program continues to grow in the Houghton-Hancock area, giving employers top-notch technical talent from Michigan Technological University, and...
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Michigan Tech Students Develop Phone Apps for Citizen Scientists
HOUGHTON (WWJ) – The world is a vast place with a deep history. Scientists try to capture it all, but they cannot identify all the details. That is where you, the citizen, come in. A group of students...
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Stepping Out in Style: Michigan Tech Researchers Developing Artificial Leg...
HOUGHTON (WWJ) – Walking is tricky business, as any toddler knows. And while most artificial feet and limbs do a pretty good job restoring mobility to people who have lost a leg, they have a ways to...
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Awards And Certifications From Oct. 17
Wayne State Alum Wins Dissertation Prize: A 2012 Wayne State University College of Engineering alumnus, Farshid Azadian, was presented with the 2013 Institute for Operations Research and the Management...
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Tech Tour Day Two: A Great Ride
ST. IGNACE (WWJ) – Greetings from this lakeshore town at the north end of the Mackinac Bridge, where I pulled in for the night to write up Friday’s Technology Report before starting my 2013 Fall Tech...
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Tech Tour Day Four: Just Another Incredible Saturday Of MTU Research
HOUGHTON (WWJ) – Most Michigan universities only get one day on the Fall Tech Tour. But I always give Michigan Technological University two. Maybe it’s the fact that it takes 11 hours to get up here,...
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Amping Up Solar in the Snowy North
By Marcia Goodrich HOUGHTON (WWJ) – Solar farms are a no-brainer in warm and sunny places, but what about in northern climes, where snow is measured in feet, and can cover and even shut down the...
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Zombie Apocalypse Set For Friday At Michigan Tech
HOUGHTON (WWJ) – They grace the covers of magazines. They star in a hit television series. And, they are featured in a popular new game on campus. Although from the world of the undead, zombies have...
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Matt’s Favorites: MTU Science Solves A Mystery, Mars Sooner Than You Think,...
So what’s the latest and greatest as we all recover from our Halloween bacchanalia and face All Saints Day and significantly more wintry weather? Bundle up… it’s cold on Mars…. * First of all, here are...
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Matt’s Favorites: LLamasoft Speaks, MTU In Thailand, And Much More
So what’s the latest from the wonderful world of science and technology on this fine Thursday morning, when I hope to see you at Lawrence Tech? Well, here goes… * First of all, here are links to the...
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MTU In Deal With Indian University
HOUGHTON (WWJ) – Mechanical engineering faculty from a private Indian university will soon be pursuing their Ph.D.’s from Michigan Technological University. The new agreement with Vidya Pratishthan,...
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MTU Prof Writes 3D Printing Guide For Scientists On A Budget
By Marcia Goodrich HOUGHTON – Joshua Pearce is not one for understatement. “This is the beginning of a true revolution in the sciences,” says the author of “Open-Source Lab.” For cash-strapped...
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Five UP Tech Companies Band Together For Defense Work
HOUGHTON (WWJ) – A new collaboration of five Upper Peninsula manufacturing technology companies, along with the Houghton tech business accelerator MTEC SmartZone and Michigan Technological University,...
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Michigan Tech Prof Invents Low-Cost 3D Printer That Works With Metal
HOUGHTON (WWJ) – OK, so maybe you aren’t interested in making your own toys, cellphone cases, or glow-in-the-dark Christmas decorations. How about a brake drum? Until now, 3D printing has been a...
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Five Michigan Universities Get NSF Grant To Boost Minority STEM Success
DETROIT (WWJ) – The National Science Foundation has awarded a $1.32 million grant to five Michigan universities for a project that will increase the academic success of underrepresented minority...
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MTU To Add $1M Welcome Center
HOUGHTON (WWJ) – Michigan Technological University will honor alumnus and longtime supporter John Edgar McAllister by building a new Welcome Center named for him to introduce future students and their...
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HR Notices From Dec. 20 – Jan. 5
MTAM Announces 2014 Statewide Advisory Council Chairs: The Mobile Technology Association of Michigan has announced its ‘Mobile in Government’ statewide advisory council, as well as its 2014...
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Michigan Tech Prof Comes Up Empty In Web Search For Time Travelers
HOUGHTON (WWJ) – If time travelers exist, they’re covering their tracks pretty well. At least, that’s the word from a study set up by a professor at Michigan Technological University, searching for...
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Where Do Snowflakes Get Their Start? Michigan Tech Has Some Answers
HOUGHTON (WWJ) – Snow doesn’t come out of nowhere. Scientists know that for those flakes to form, a nucleus — a tiny speck of dust — is needed, to which water molecules attach themselves and then...
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Michigan Tech Student From China Brings Solar Power To His Home Village
HOUGHTON (WWJ) – As New Year’s traditions go, this one stinks. Every Chinese New Year, the people in Zao Yuan, a rural village of about 2,000 people in China’s Shanxi Province, celebrate by watching TV...
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Michigan Tech Mind Trekkers To Show Off At NBA All-Star Game
HOUGHTON (WWJ) – Basketball fans in New Orleans for the 2014 NBA All-Star Game will also have the chance to learn about the science of basketball, thanks to the Michigan Technological University Mind...
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Michigan Tech Prof’s Advance May Lead To Cheaper Peptide Drugs
HOUGHTON (WWJ) – Peptides are an intriguing class of drugs. They are made of amino acids, just as humans are, and because of their intimate relationship with our own biological molecules, they have the...
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Michigan Tech Adds Honors College
HOUGHTON (WWJ) – Michigan Technological University’s Board of Control approved establishment of the Pavlis Honors College at its regular meeting Friday. It is the first named college at Michigan Tech....
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Michigan Tech Advance In Tissue Scaffolds Could Lead To Stem Cell Treatments
HOUGHTON (WWJ) – Our cells don’t live in a vacuum. They are surrounded by a complex, nurturing matrix that is essential for many biological functions, including growth and healing. In all multicellular...
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Michigan Tech Prof Says You Can Save Big With Milk Jug Recycling For 3D Printing
HOUGHTON (WWJ) – What do you do with old plastic milk jugs? Sure, you can recycle them conventionally in a municipal collection program. But now, a professor at Michigan Technological University says...
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Michigan Tech Prof’s Plants, Bacteria May Give UP’s Gay Stamp Sands New Life
HOUGHTON (WWJ) – The tiny town of Gay on northern Michigan’s Keweenaw Peninsula is famous for more than its eponymous Gay Bar. A short distance away on the shore of Lake Superior is the Gay Stamp Sands...
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Kettering Wins SAE Clean Snowmobile Challenge At Michigan Tech
HOUGHTON (WWJ) – After two years as runner up, Kettering University has taken the gold in the internal combustion division of the 2014 SAE Clean Snowmobile Challenge. The competition was held over the...
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Michigan Tech Research May Lead To Hardier Rice To Feed New Billions
HOUGHTON (WWJ) – As the Earth’s human population marches toward 9 billion, the need for hardy new varieties of grain crops has never been greater. It won’t be enough to yield record harvests under...
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What’s Going On Under the Ice? A Cabled Observatory Gives Michigan Tech...
HOUGHTON (WWJ) – Guy Meadows loves winter. It gives the director of Michigan Technological University’s Great Lakes Research Center in the cold, snowy Upper Peninsula a chance to do something few...
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Michigan Tech Prof Gets Grant For New Prosthetic Ankle, Foot
HOUGHTON (WWJ) – Mo Rastgaar, an assistant professor at Michigan technological University, has received a National Science Foundation grant of nearly $500,000 to make his new artificial limb design a...
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Researchers: Rubberized Asphalt May Be Key To Solving Michigan’s Road Woes
HOUGHTON, Mich. (WWJ/AP) - Could scrap rubber hold the answers needed to fix Michigan’s crumbling roads? Michigan Technological University researchers are helping study whether building roads using...
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Police Arrest Suspect Accused Of Threatening African-American Students At...
HOUGHTON (WWJ) – Police say the person accused of making threats against African-American students at Michigan Technological University has been taken into custody. Police say the suspect was...
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Charge Dismissed Against Michigan Tech Student Who Threatened...
HOUGHTON, Mich. (WWJ/AP) – A charge of disturbing the peace against a Michigan Technological University student who authorities say threatened blacks on social media has been dismissed. The misdemeanor...
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Michigan Tech Cancels Regional Ski Event Due To Lack Of Snow
HOUGHTON, Mich. (AP) – A continued lack of snow in Michigan’s typically snowy Upper Peninsula has forced the rare cancellation of more ski races. Michigan Technological University announced it...
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Murder Conviction Affirmed In Iranian Student’s Death
HOUGHTON, Mich. (WWJ/AP) – The Michigan appeals court has affirmed the murder conviction of a man who killed his newlywed wife from Iran before she started graduate school at Michigan Technological...
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Ex-Michigan Tech Student Accused Of Threatening Black Classmates Sues School
HOUGHTON, Mich. (WWJ/AP) – A former Michigan Technological University student who was accused last year of threatening on social media to shoot black students is suing the school. Matthew Schultz was a...
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Michigan Tech President Mroz To Step Down Next Year
HOUGHTON, Mich. (AP) – Michigan Technological University President Glenn D. Mroz has announced his intention to step down from that position and return to the faculty. Michigan Technological University...
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