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1. Tech Wins Annual Blood Drive Competition |
By Steve R. Miner, outreach coordinator, Counseling Services
Michigan Tech outdrew NMU, 136 to 126 pints, to win the annual Blood Drive Competition held Jan. 24. Tech has claimed the plaque seven of eight years that the friendly contest has collected blood for the UP Regional Blood Center. During that time, Tech has collected 1,049 pints of blood for 10 regional hospitals. Thanks to all students, faculty, staff and community members who supported our winning effort.
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2. Copper Country Humane Society Can Drive Saturday |
Submitted by Teresa Woods, lecturer, School of Business and Economics
Spring cleaning? Donate your empty cans and bottles to a good cause! The Copper Country Humane Society is holding a can and bottle drive across from the Aftermath Cafe in Fisher Hall on Saturday, March 3, from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Any empty with a Michigan 10 cent deposit will be accepted. |
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3. NPC Badge Day March 5 |
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In honor of the National Panhellenic Conference Badge Day, the Panhellenic Council of Michigan Tech would like to invite to all undergraduate and alumni fraternity and sorority members to participate in Michigan Tech's Fraternity and Sorority Badge Day on Monday, March 5. Show support for your fraternity or sorority and the Greek community by proudly wearing your respective badge or pin. If you have questions, contact the Office of Student Activities, 487-1963. |
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4. Flags Lowered Feb. 28, March 1 |
Flags throughout the state will be lowered Feb. 28 to March 1 in honor of Michigan servicemen who lost their lives while on active duty in Iraq.
Flags will be lowered today, Wednesday, Feb. 28, to honor Marine Private First Class Brett A. Witteveen of Shelby. Private Witteveen, 20, died Feb. 19 while conducting combat operations in Al Anbar province. He was assigned to the Marine Force Reserve's 1st Battalion, 24th Marine Regiment, 4th Marine Division, Grand Rapids.
Flags will be lowered Thursday, March 1, to honor Army Private First Class Justin T. Paton of Alanson. Private Paton, 24, died Feb. 17 when his unit came in contact with enemy forces using small arms fire in Taramia. He was assigned to the 2nd Battalion, 8th Cavalry Regiment, 1st Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division, Fort Hood, Texas. |
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5. Michigan Tech Fund Merit Award Nominees Sought |
If you know an outstanding senior student at Michigan Tech, consider nominating them for a Michigan Tech Fund Merit Award.
The awards are presented annually to a senior man and woman who have demonstrated extraordinary leadership and service to the university. Recipients are given a personal memento and a cash award. Nominees must be full-time seniors in good standing with a minimum GPA of 2.5 and graduate in May or December of 2007. President Glenn Mroz will present the awards on Thursday, May 3.
The 2007 Merit Award Nomination form can be found at http://www.mtf.mtu.edu/merit_nomination_07.php .
Nomination forms are also available at the J. R. Van Pelt Library circulation desk, the Campus Bookstore, Meese Center and the Wadsworth Hall office of the coordinator for residential operations. If you have any questions, contact Lisa Saatio, major donor stewardship and special events coordinator, Office of Development, at 487-3629 or lmsaatio@mtu.edu . |
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6. 2007 Summer Undergraduate Research Fellows Named |
Every year the vice president for research sponsors an internal competition for Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowships (SURF). The fellowship provides up to $2,800 to support the recipient’s research work with a faculty mentor. The 2007 competition closed at the end of January. Fifty undergraduates applied, and the university was able to fund 23 proposals.
This year’s recipients are as follows:
* Lindsay Barlow (Biomedical Engineering), "The Effects of Hibernation on Porosity in Black Bear (Ursus Americanus) Femurs,” with Associate Professor Seth Donahue
* Ben Coupland (Physics), "Exploration of Carbon Nitride," with Associate Professor Yoke Khin Yap
* Jennifer Diaz Tavarez (MEEM), "Product and Process Platform Development," with Associate Professor John Gershenson
* Zachary Edel (MEEM), "Study of the Growth of a Single Vapor Bubble Inside a Microchannel," with Assistant Professor Abhijit Mukherjee
* Chad Fortin (SFRES), "Measuring Arthropod Densities," with Associate Professor David Flaspohler
* Garrett Gibbons, (Chemistry), "Silver Catalyzed Enyne Cycloisomerization," with Assistant Professor Shiyue Fang
* Sara Gibbs (Biomedical Engineering), "Angiopoietin-2 Promotes Capillary Stabilization," Assistant Professor Jeremy Goldman
* Anthony Hegg (Physics), "Experimental Study of Dipicolinic Acid Using NQR Techniques," Professor Bryan Suits
* Elsa Jensen (SFRES), "Ecohydrological Conditions of a Bete Grise Coastal Dune and Swale Wetland," with Visiting Assistant Professor Rodney Chimner
* Jeffrey Katalenich (MEEM), "Analysis of the Use of Magnetic Torque in the 3-Axis Stabilization of a Nanosatellite in Low-Earth Orbit," with Associate Professor L. Brad King
* Kari Klaboe (CEE), "Ultra High Performance Concrete Setting Times and Conditions," with Associate Professor Theresa Ahlborn
* Rebecca Klank (Biomedical Engineering), "Testing the Effects of Adding PEG to Agarose and Methylcellulose Hydrogel Blends," with Assistant Professor Ryan Gilbert
* Stuart Kramer (SFRES), "Social Effects of Lignocellose Biofuel Production in the Upper Midwest," with Associate Professor Kathleen Halvorsen
* Andrew McInnes (Social Science), "The Aguirre Sugar Mill Historic Research Project,"with Assistant Professor Sam Sweitz
* Sarah Molitoris (SFRES), "Understory Plant Diversity in Relation to Legacy Trees in Aspen Forests,” with Assistant Professor Christopher Webster
* Alexander Nelson (Computer Science), "Media Influences on Scientific Literature," with Associate Professor Victoria Bergvall
* Wen Ni Ng, (Biomedical Engineering), "Wireless Biosensor for Wound Healing Monitoring," with Assistant Professor Keat Ghee Ong
* Andrew Spaeth (Chemistry), "Novel Synthetic Approach to Bi-Zwitterionic Phosphoniumboranes in Organic Hydrogen Activation," with Assistant Professor Eugenijus Urnezius
* Sarah Stream (Exercise Science), "Effects of Sleep on Autonomic Activity During Simulated Microgravity," with Department Chair Jason Carter
* Tara Swanson (MEEM), "Recovery of Meniscal Tissue Following a Period of Disuse," with Associate Professor Tammy Haut Donahue
* Wei Tang (Chemistry), "Mono-Acetylation of Symmetric Diamines," with Assistant Professor Shiyue Fang
* Sherri Wiseman (Biomedical Engineering), "Rapid Gelling Polyethylene Glycol Hydrogel System," with Assistant Professor Ryan Gilbert
* Alexandra Zevalkink (MSE), "Development of a Low Temperature, Thin Film Solid Oxide Fuel Cell," with Associate Professor Peter Moran |
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7. ECE Seminar Thursday |
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Ani Nahapetian, from University of California-Los Angeles, will give a seminar, "Lightweight Heterogeneous and Reconfigurable Embedded Systems for Medical Applications," on Thursday, March 1, at 3:30 p.m. in Dow 641. |
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8. MSE Seminar Friday |
Janelle M. Leger, an NSF Discovery Corps postdoctoral fellow from the University of Washington's Department of Chemistry, will give a seminar, "Optoelectronic Devices Based on a Semiconducting Polymer Homojunction," on Friday, March 2, at 3 p.m., M&M U113.
For more information or an abstract, contact Margaret Rothenberger, mproth@mtu.edu . |
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9. Interdisciplinary Seminar Friday |
Daniel Cziczo, from the Institute for Atmospheric and Climate Science, Zurich, Switzerland, will give an interdisciplinary seminar, "Aerosols, Clouds and Climate," on Friday, March 2, at 3 p.m. in Chem Sci 101.
For more information or an abstract, contact Kelly McLean, kelly@mtu.edu . |
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10. Grain Processing Seminar Friday |
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Alex Katz, from the University of California-Berkeley, will give a chemical engineering seminar, "Understanding Chemical Reactivity on Solids Using Hybrid Organic-Inorganic Active Sites: Inner and Outer Sphere Approaches," on Friday, March 2, at 10 a.m., in Memorial Union Alumni Lounge A. |
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11. On the Road |
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Physics PhD student Yanjie Wei, from the Computational Nano- and Biophysics Group, presented a poster, "Sidechain and Backbone Ordering in Homopolymers," at the Quantitative Computational Biophysics '07 workshop, held Feb. 18-21 at Florida State University, Tallahassee. |
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12. Memorial Union Menus Feb. 28-March 2 |
Wednesday, Feb. 28
The Grill--Breakfast, Breakfast Pizza $2.75; Lunch, Hot Wing Basket $4.95 (includes hot wings, small fries and coleslaw); Hot Wings only $2.99
Home Style Entrees--Joloff Chicken and Rice $3.95; Full Meal $5.95; Spinach and Chickpea Pancakes $3.95; Yam Fritters $1.50; Marrakesh Vegetable Curry $1.50
The Wok About International Display Cooking--all entrees $4.25; Stir Fried Gnocchi with Broccoli and Mushrooms, Chicken Caesar Salad
Soup by the Cup--$2.50; African Pumpkin
Mubsterz Pizza--Han and Pineapple Pizza by the slice $2.69
Peppers & Pickles Deli--Try one of our low carb friendly wrap sandwiches, $3.85 at the Deli
Thursday, March 1
The Grill--Breakfast, One, Two, Three, Breakfast Special $3.25 (1 pancake, 2 eggs, 3 sausage or bacon and coffee); Lunch, Onion Crisps $1.75
Home Style Entrees--Chicken Cordon Bleu $3.95; Full Meal $5.95; Parsley Buttered New Potatoes $1.50; Cauliflower Polonaise $1.50
The Wok About International Display Cooking--all entrees $4.25; Sesame Beef Stir Fry, Chicken Caesar Salad
Soup by the Cup--$2.50; Winter Vegetable Curry
Mubsterz Pizza--Taco Pizza by the slice $2.69
Peppers & Pickles Deli--Make any sandwich a value meal and get a 20-ounce fountain soda, chips or a jumbo cookie for just $1.95
Friday, March 2
The Grill--Breakfast, Richard's Polynesian Pancakes $1.95; Han and Turkey Sour Dough Grillers $3.25 (make it a value meal for just $1.95 more and get a small fry and a 20-ounce fountain soda)
Home Style Entrees--Fried Halibut $3.95; Full Meal $5.95 (full meal includes entrees and two sides); Scalloped Gaufrette Potatoes $1.50; Chef's Vegetable of the day $1.50
The Wok About International Display Cooking--all entrees $4.25; Kung Pao Chicken, Chicken Caesar Salad
Soup by the Cup--$2.50; New England Clam Chowder
Mubsterz Pizza--Cheese Burger Pizza by the slice $2.69
Peppers & Pickles Deli--Try this week's featured sandwich, California Chicken Salad Sandwiches $3.19 |
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