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1. Huskies Ranked No. 24 by D2Football.com |
by Wes Frahm, director of athletic communications and marketing
Michigan Tech is ranked No. 24 in this week's D2Football.com poll, which was released today. The ranking is the Huskies' first since early last season, when they were ranked No. 25 by D2Football.com.
Tech is 2-0 overall in 2008 with wins over Winona State and Hillsdale—teams that combined for a 18-5 record a year ago. The Huskies defeated Winona, 26-21, on Aug. 30 before edging Hillsdale, 39-36, on Saturday, Sept. 6.
Michigan Tech will host Ashland on Saturday, Sept. 13, at 1 p.m. The Eagles were nationally ranked in each of the first two polls before losing their first two contests by a combined eight points. |
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2. Retirement Ice Cream Social Friday for Doyle |
submitted by Student Development
Join the Student Development staff at an ice cream social to celebrate (or mourn) the retirement of Dawn Doyle on Friday, Sept. 19, 1-4 p.m. in the Begg Conference Room of the Peter J. Grant Hockey Educational Center.
Dawn has worked at Michigan Tech since Aug. 22, 1983. Please stop by to wish her well in her retirement.
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3. Physics Lecture Series to Be Held Sept. 15-19 |
Professor Samuel B. Trickey, University of Florida, will present a physics lecture series, "Survey of Density Functional Theory and Applications (Modeling of Properties of Materials)," Sept. 15-19, in Fisher 222, 9-10 a.m. and noon-1 p.m.
Trickey will briefly review the main density functional approaches and connect and contrast them with quantum chemistry practice. Topics include basics of time-independent DFT, Kohn Sham implementation of DFT, problems and insights, applications and time-dependent DFT.
For more information, contact Ravi Pandey, physics department chair, at pandey@mtu.edu . |
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4. Job Posting |
Staff job descriptions are available in the Human Resources Office or at http://www.admin.mtu.edu/hro/postings . For more information regarding staff positions, call 487-2280 or email jobs@mtu.edu .
Faculty job descriptions can be found at www.admin.mtu.edu/hro/facpers/facvac.htm . For more information regarding faculty positions, contact the academic department in which the position is posted.
Staff Job Posting
9/10/08-9/16/08
Library Assistant 5
J. Robert Van Pelt/Opie Library
UAW internal and external posting
Michigan Technological University is an equal opportunity educational institution/equal opportunity employer. |
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5. On the Road |
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Professor Barry Solomon (Social Sciences) presented an invited seminar, "High-Level Radioactive Waste Management in the United States," at the Center for Public Sector Research of the University of Gothenburg, in Sweden, on Sept. 4. Solomon is on sabbatical leave at the University of Gothenburg and will remain there through Dec. 1. |
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