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1. Department of Public Safety Adds Police Services to Its Name |
Michigan Tech's Department of Public Safety is now the Department of Public Safety and Police Services (DPSPS). The name change reflects the true scope of the services that the department provides, explained Dan Bennett, DPSPS director.
"We are a full-service police department that also offers a variety of public safety services," Bennett said. "We do more than security. We're law enforcement officers."
DPSPS services include parking, bike registration, weapons registration and storage, and "safe-walk," an escort service for students. The DPSPS also has trained emergency 911 dispatchers on duty 24 hours a day and serves as the central switchboard for the University. |
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2. Sponsored Programs to Host Training for New Form |
Sponsored Programs will hold two training sessions on the new transmittal form, which is used to secure outside funding for a project, being unveiled later this week.
Training will be held from noon to 1 p.m. on Thursday, Aug. 27, in Memorial Union Ballroom A2 and noon to 1 p.m. on Wednesday, Sept. 9, in Memorial Union Ballrooms B2 and B3.
Dessert and beverages will be provided; please bring your own lunch.
Register at www.admin.mtu.edu/research/vpr/registration/ .
If you have any questions, contact Kristin Beck at kgbeck@mtu.edu or 487-2226. |
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3. Free Jazz Concert at Lunchtime Friday |
Music is on the lunch menu on Friday, Aug. 21, when the acoustic jazz duo "Wind Shift" performs at the first in a series of free outdoor events on the dock outside the Portage Lake District Library in downtown Houghton. Mike Irish, associate professor of visual and performing arts at Michigan Tech, will play acoustic and electric guitar, with Scott Veenstra on bass.
From noon to 1 p.m., Irish and Veenstra will play a variety of jazz and pop standards, ranging from Miles Davis to Stevie Wonder, Duke Ellington to Sting and Charlie Parker to Prince.
The lunchtime concert is free and open to all. For more information, call the library at 482-4570 or visit www.pldl.org . |
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4. Welcome New Faculty |
President Glenn and Gail Mroz will host a reception for new faculty on Thursday, August 20, from 4 to 6 p.m., on the third floor of the Van Pelt and Opie Library.
All faculty and their spouses or guests are invited to welcome the new faculty.
This is part of the New Faculty Orientation program. |
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5. In the News |
The Chicago Tribune ran an Associated Press story about Michigan Tech's new research and educational partnership with the Army Corps of Engineers, quoting Robert Shuchman, co-director of the Michigan Tech Research Institute in Ann Arbor: click here.
Michigan Tech was mentioned in Crain's Detroit Business as one of three Michigan universities receiving federal stimulus funds to develop a new hybrid engineering curriculum. |
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