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1. Black History Month Activities This Week: "African Crops and Slave Cuisine" and Films |
As part of Black History Month, there are two events scheduled this week.
Today, Monday, Feb. 2, at noon in Memorial Union Alumni Lounge A and B, there is a one-hour presentation titled "African Crops and Slave Cuisine." You can learn about crops brought from Africa to North America during the slave trade and how they were used. You'll be able to sample some items.
On Friday, Feb. 6, at 7 p.m. in M & M U115, there will be a showing of two short films: "Hidden Heroes: African-American Women in WWII" and "From the Top of the Key," a chronicle of a mother trying to get her son into college. Enjoy pizza and pop.
Meanwhile, throughout February, at the Carnegie Museum, there will be an exhibit of pictures and bios of African-Americans who live and work in the community. Hours are noon to 7 p.m. on Tuesdays; noon to 5 p.m. on Thursdays; and noon to 4 p.m. on Saturdays.
Reminders of Black History Month activities will be posted weekly. |
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2. Recipients of Spring 2009 Finishing Fellowships Announced |
The Graduate School has announced the recipients of the Finishing Fellowships for spring 2009.
The following PhD students will receive one-time finishing fellowships:
* Ganesh Kumar Arumugam (Chemistry)
* Moe (Robert) Folk (Humanities)
* Stacie Holmes (SFRES)
* Kateryna Lapina (CEE)
* Jialiang Li (ECE)
* Jason Makela (ME-EM)
* Jason Moscatello (Physics)
* Puspamitra Panigrahi (Physics)
* Soumyashree Sreehari (Chemistry)
* Cynthia Weber (Humanities)
The fellowships are made possible by the Graduate School and the
generous support of the following Michigan Tech endowments:
* Century II Endowed Fellowship
* Class of '44 Endowed Fellowship
* Charles L. Lawton Endowed Fellowship
* Neil V. Hakala Endowed Fellowship
More information about the fellowships and recipients can be found at www.gradschool.mtu.edu/financial/ff.html .
If you have any questions, contact Debra Charlesworth at ddc@mtu.edu . |
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3. New Funding |
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S. K. Kawatra (Chemical Engineering) has received $99,994 from NSF for "SGER: Environmentally Benign Iron Manufacture with Renewable Reductants." |
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4. Proposals in Progress |
Brad King and Carrie Niemela (MEEM), "FRC Translation Experiments for Space Propulsion," US DOD, Air Force Research Laboratory
Ravindra Pandey (Physics), "Chemical Reactivity Studies of Boron Clusters, Sheets and Nanotubes," NSF
Aleksey Smirnov and Jimmy Diehl (GMES), "Is An Asymmetrical Reversal Recorded Within Individual Mafic Dikes of Baraga County, Michigan? A Paleomagnetic, Paleointensity and Geochronological Investigation," NSF
Haiying Liu and Pushpalatha Murthy (Chemistry/BRC), "New Kind of Fluorescent Conjugated Polymers for Sensitive Detection of Cells, Bacteria and Viruses," NSF
Simon A. Carn (GMES/RSI), "An Epidemiological Analysis of Global Volcanic Degassing," NSF
Lanrong Bi (Chemistry/BRC) and Ravi Pandey (Physics), "Slowing DNA Transportation in Nanopore Using Molecular 'Brake,'" NSF; Lanrong Bi and Sarah A. Green (Chemistry), "Molecular Motors and Brakes Work Together to Decipher DNA Sequence," NSF
Nancy Auer and J. Marty Holtgren (Biological Sciences), "Collaborative Fishery Management Opportunities Between Tribal and State Agencies," Great Lakes Fishery Trust
Brandon D. Pereles and Keat Ghee Ong (Biomedical Engineering), "Real Time, In-Vivo Mapping of Tibiofemoral Contact Pressures in Knee Arthroplasty Implants," NSF
Gopal Jayaraman (MEEM) and Paul Nelson (SBE), "Integrated Safety Hipseat for Two-Wheel Vehicles," NCIIA
Robert Shuchman (MTRI), "Alaskan Commodity Revenues Visualizing and Estimating Tool," University of Alaska-Fairbanks
Robert Pastel (Computer Science), Jindong Tan (ECE) and Christopher Brill (Cognitive and Learning Sciences), "HCC: Small: Human-Robot Interaction Design and Evaluation of Robot Teams," NSF
Jacqueline Huntoon (Graduate School), "Collaborations for Building Michigan Geology Talent," Eastern Michigan University
Lynn R. Mazzoleni (Chemistry/RSI), "Isotopic Tracer for Climate-Relevant Secondary Organic Aerosol Components: Analysis by Advanced Mass Spectrometry," Los Alamos National Lab, Laboratory Directed Research and Development
William I. Rose, John S. Gierke, Alex S. Mayer, Essa L. Gross (GMES/RSI) and Paul J. White (Social Sciences/RSI), "TRACK 1: Enhancing Participation of Hispanic American Students in Geological Hazard Studies in Pacific Latin America," NSF Opportunities for Enhancing Diversity in Geosciences
Fernando Ponta (MEEM/APSRC), "Adaptive Vorticity-Velocity Algorithms for Fluid-Structure Interaction Analysis," NSF
Wenjun Ying (Mathematical Sciences), "Adaptive Kernel-Free Boundary Integral Method for Elliptic PDEs," NSF, Computational Mathematics
John W. Sutherland (MEEM/SFI) and David R. Shonnard (Chemistry/SFI), "Integrating Sustainable Engineering Concepts across the Curriculum at Multiple Educational Institutions," Kettering University
Urlich H. E. Hansmann (Physics), "From Computational Biophysics to Systems Biology," DOE
Zhijun Zhao (ECE), "CIF: Small: Near-Optimal Low-Complexity Detection for Two-Dimensional Information Transmission," NSF
Zhenlin Wang and Steven Carr (Computer Science), "SHF: Small: Ensuring Performance Isolation and Performance Efficiency in a Virtualized System," NSF
Eugene Levin (School of Technology) and J. Christopher Brill (Cognitive and Learning Sciences), "HCC: Small: Multidisciplinary Research: Cognitive Geospatial Information System," NSF, IIS
Bo Chen (MEEM/ECE), "RI: Small: Collaborative Research: Adaptive Task Level Control of Multi-Robot Systems," NSF
Jindong Tan (ECE/CISSIC), "RI: Small: Compressive Mobile Sensing with Robotic Sensor Networks," NSF
Chunxiao (Tricia) Chigan and Zhi (Gerry) Tian (ECE/CISSIC), "TC: Small: Security Provisioning for Cognitive Radio Network Systems," NSF
Shiyan Hu (ECE/CISSIC), Wenjun Ying and Le Zhang (Mathematical Sciences), "SHF: Small: High Performance Design and Simulation Techniques for Digital Microfluidic Biochips," NSF
Shiyan Hu, Ashok Goel (ECE/CISSIC) and Wenjun Ying (Mathematical Sciences), "SHF: Small: Innovative Design, Modeling and Simulation Techniques for Nanotube Interconnect and Copper Interconnect Co-Design," NSF
Robert Shuchman (MTRI), "Michigan International Speedway Phase 1 Project," Center for Automotive Research (CAR)
Gordon Parker (MEEM/MuSTI), "Development of a Ship-Launched Aerial Delivery System," Craft Engineering; and "Crane Pendulation Control System Specification Development," BMT Designers & Planners
Barbara K. Lograsso (School of Technology), "Methodology for 3D Characterization of Fracture Surfaces for Enhanced Matching," Ames Laboratory
Jim Baker and Dave Reed (VPR Office), "Creating a Culture of Idea Generation for Commercialization: A Collaboration among Higher Educational Institutions, Innovators and the Regional Public Sector," Calvin College
David Watkins, Kurt Paterson (CEE) and Donna Michalek (MEEM), "Enhancing Performance and Social Acceptability of the Ventilated Improved Pit Toilet," US EPA National Center for Environmental Research
Dave Reed and Jim Baker (VPR Office), "Development and Advancement of Collaborative Rural Innovations Hubs," NSF
Roger Turpening, Alex Mayer and Wayne Pennington (GMES/MTCWS), "Optimizing a Framework for Non-Invasive Data Acquisition through Modeling for CO2 Geological Sequestration in Saline Aquifers," Colorado State University |
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