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1. United Way Extends Thanks |
Karin Van Dyke '78, president of the Copper Country United Way, thanks the University community for its support of the annual fundraising campaign.
Tech employees donated more than $36,400 to the campaign that ended on Feb. 28. Overall, $141,000 was raised to support 15 local agencies.
"Many people in our community will be helped by your tremendous caring and generosity," Van Dyke said of Tech's contribution. "Thank you very much for your support."
Michigan Tech is routinely the biggest collective supporter of United Way.
Nancy Seely coordinated the Tech effort. |
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2. Women's Week Features "Managing Menopause" Today |
The Women's Week event for today, Thursday, March 26, is a presentation by Geri Merkey, community health RN at Portage Health, "Is It Hot in Here or Is It Just Me? Managing Your Menopause For A Happy, Healthy Second Half Of Life!" The talk will be held at noon in the Red Metal Room of the Memorial Union.
Topics include recognizing the signs of menopause, understanding its implications and managing risk.
Merkey has practiced as a registered nurse for more than 26 years, specializing in maternal/child health. She takes special interest in health and wellness education throughout the lifespan, and she promotes lifestyle modification as a way to prevent disease and improve quality of life.
Merkey was a student at Michigan Tech in the scientific and technical communication program in the 1970s. She graduated from Parkland College, in Illinois, with her nursing degree. She is married to Phillip Merkey, director of computational science and engineering at Tech. |
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3. Tech Investment Team Competes in Annual Competition for Ninth Year |
submitted by the School of Business and Economics
Sixteen students in the School of Business and Economics are competing in the Ninth Annual Redefining Investment Strategy Education (RISE) Forum, being held March 25-28 in Dayton, Ohio.
The students are members of the School's Applied Portfolio Management Program (APMP). Associate Professor Dean Johnson teaches the yearlong course, in which a select group of students manages a $1-million pool of funds provided by private donors.
Student teams from 267 colleges and universities were judged on the earnings from their investments at the annual competition, which is held at the University of Dayton and attracts entrants from more than 50 countries.
The SBE students are competing in the value category again this year. Last year's team set a forum record with their win, which was the third for Tech in eight years, and attracted the attention of the national morning news TV program "Squawk Box."
This year's APMP team members are
* Ryan Angelow
* Grant Dossetto
* Joseph Dowdle
* Kelly Gerzetich
* Malcolm Gwilliam
* Anthony Hellenbrand
* Min Cheol Kim
* Laurilee Kroll
* Jeremy Kunde
* Tyler Kunde
* Katherine Leitheiser
* Zachary Martin
* Kayla McCormick
* Donald Murray
* Jacob Stevens
* Eric Tangko |
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4. New Library Exhibit Opens Friday: "Fifty Years Ago Today" |
submitted by the Van Pelt Library
The J. R. Van Pelt and Opie Library is opening a new photography exhibit on Friday, March 27, featuring 1950s photographs from the collections of the Michigan Tech Archives and Copper Country Historical Collections. The exhibit, located near the library's main entrance on the first floor, is free and open to the public.
Everyone has their own sense of what life was like in the 1950s--the early years of rock and roll, cars with big fins and scenes from "American Graffiti." But what about life here in the Copper Country? What images help to define what things were like here "Fifty Years Ago Today?"
One place with some answers is the collection of photographic images from the Daily Mining Gazette, preserved in the Michigan Tech Archives. Comprising several thousand images from 1953 to 1978, the Daily Mining Gazette collection documents a myriad of topics, events, people and places in our own backyard--including many images from the 1950s.
Although already half a century ago, many of the images recall a time not too distant--the construction of the Isle Royale passenger ferry, Ranger III, designation of a road near Redridge as "the covered drive," or a local homemade "ridge runner" snowmobile. Other images, however, seem to be further back in history--the regular arrivals of the passenger ship SS South American, overnight sleeper cars on the Copper Country Limited train or horse riders taking a stroll down Quincy Street in Hancock. Other images, such as a girl with a hula hoop or local restaurant owner Andy McCormick in his working clothes, simply capture the spirit of a different time.
The images are also available through the Keweenaw Digital Archives at http://digarch.lib.mtu.edu/ . There are more than 300 images from the Daily Mining Gazette collection online--and 6,000 additional images from our other collections. The digital archives allows visitors to search for keywords, add comments about images, create a personal online album and purchase prints and digital scans.
This exhibit is made possible with support from the Friends of the Van Pelt Library. |
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5. Forestry Symposium Friday: "Natural Resources in Urban Areas" |
The Xi Sigma Pi forestry honors fraternity will host a symposium, "Natural Resources in Urban Areas," Friday, March 27, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. in U. J. Noblet G002. All are welcome to attend.
The lineup follows:
9 a.m., Interim Department Chair Patrick Martin (Social Sciences), "The West Point Foundry: Archaeology and Natural Resources in the Hudson Valley"
10 a.m., Senior Research Engineer Chris Wojick (CEE), "Is This Building Sustainable?"
11 a.m., Cinzia Fissore '07, postdoctoral associate from the University of Minnesota, "How Human Activities Affect Macroelement Fluxes at the Household Level--An Example from the Twin Cities Metropolitan Area"
Noon, lunch break
2 p.m., Professor Marty Jurgensen (SFRES), "Fire and the Urban Forest"
3 p.m., Associate Professor Audrey Mayer (Social Sciences), "Achieving Sustainable Urban Watersheds through Incentive-Based Stormwater Mitigation" |
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6. Reminder: Dale Carneigie Course Starts Monday at ATDC |
A six-session Dale Carnegie immersion course will begin Monday, March 30, at the Advanced Technology Development Complex.
The first three people to RSVP can attend the first session with no obligation to continue with the program. In this session, participants will set breakthrough goals, write a vision and improve their ability to remember names.
The sessions are held Mondays from 8 a.m. to noon. The course teaches participants how to strengthen interpersonal relations, manage stress and handle fast-changing workplace conditions.
For more information, contact Jon Walrath at 281-1841 or jon.walrath@dalecarnegie.com or visit www.sewis.dalecarnegie.com . |
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7. On the Road |
Assistant Professor Yolanda Muņoz Maldonado (Mathematical Sciences) gave a talk at the Eastern North American Region Conference of the International Biometrics Society held last week in San Antonio, "A Counterintuitive Results when Calculating Sample Size in ANOVA."
Professor David Orozco (SBE) led a workshop on intellectual property through licenses, patents, trademarks and copyrights for entrepreneurs in Houghton on Tuesday, March 24. The event was sponsored by the SmartZone and was part of the FastTrac TechVenture Program, a high-tech entrepreneurship educational program administered by the Kauffman Foundation. |
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8. Job Posting |
Staff job descriptions are available in Human Resources 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 Posting
Custodian
Housing Facilities
AFSCME internal posting only, 03/26/09-04/01/09
Regular, full-time position; first shift
Michigan Technological University is an equal opportunity educational institution/equal opportunity employer. |
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9. New Staff |
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David H. Sartin has joined Athletics as football assistant offensive line coach. Sartin comes to Michigan Tech from Grand Valley State University, where he served as offensive graduate assistant, working with the offensive line. He was a member of the 2006 GVSU national championship football team. He was also part of the Mount Union College football team, which won two national championships. Sartin has a bachelor's degree from Mount Union College, located in Alliance, Ohio, and lives in Houghton. |
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