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1. Reminder: Call for 2010 Rath Award Nominations |
The Vice President for Research is accepting nominations for the Bhakta Rath Research Award, which was made possible by an endowment from Bhakta B. Rath and his wife, Sushama Rath. The award offers an opportunity to promote and reward excellence in scientific and engineering research in the field of physical and natural sciences and engineering. View Tech's research website for complete submission guidelines. Nominations will be accepted until 4 p.m., Friday, April 30.
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2. Reminder: Judges Still Needed for Undergraduate Expo |
If you are interested in seeing the innovative projects that students from across campus have worked on this year, consider being a judge at the upcoming Undergraduate Expo on Thursday, April 15, in the Memorial Union Building.
Students from Enterprise, Senior Design and Undergraduate Research will display their work and will be available to discuss their projects. The Expo, a showcase of education in action through discovery-based learning, teamwork, research and design, provides a platform for hundreds of students to share the fruits of their labors with the University and local community.
We are in need of 10-12 more judges. Judging takes about one and a half hours and can be done during either the morning (9 a.m. to noon) or afternoon (noon to 3 p.m.) sessions.
For more information or to sign up, contact Mary Raber at mraber@mtu.edu , or go
online at http://www.expo.mtu.edu/ . |
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3. Michigan Tech Bands to Perform Saturday |
submitted by Visual and Performing Arts
Energy will flow in the Rozsa Center this Saturday night when Michigan Tech's Superior Winds and Campus Concert Band join forces for their spring concert, with Nick Enz conducting. The show begins at 7:30 p.m.
Tech student musicians, at the peak of their skills, will play a variety of fanfares, hymn tunes, marches, dances, symphonic excerpts and even a Bach prelude and fugue. From Berlioz's "March to the Scaffold" and "Symphonie Fantastique" to an arrangement of "Amazing Grace" and Henry Fillmore's "The Circus Bee," the concert celebrates the sounds and rhythms of woodwinds, brass and percussion, as well as the musicality of Michigan Tech's students.
Tickets are $10 for the general public, $5 for students and free for Michigan Tech students. Tickets are available at the Rozsa Box Office at 487-3200 or online at www.tickets.mtu.edu . |
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4. Biology Seminar on Metal Exposure and Male Infertility |
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As part of the Biology Seminar Series, Julie Wirth, assistant professor in the Departments of Epidemiology and Obstetrics and Gynecology at Michigan State University, will present on "The effects of low environmentally relevant metal exposure on measures of male infertility" from 2 to 3 p.m., Friday, April 9, in Chem Sci 101. |
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5. Archives Speaker Series Focuses on the First Professional Architect in the UP |
Steven Brisson, chief curator for Mackinac State Historic Parks, will give a public talk at 7 p.m., April 14, in Chem Sci 102. His topic is D. Frederick Charlton, the first professional architect to reside permanently in the Upper Peninsula.
Charlton landed important public and private commissions, including the buildings for four state institutions. His office designed structures in a variety of popular styles of the last phase of Victorian architecture. These included Romanesque, Queen Anne, Colonial Revival and Classical Revival. Three of Charlton's most important works are the Marquette County Courthouse, the John M. Longyear House in Marquette (moved and rebuilt in Brookline, Massachusetts), and the Upper Peninsula State Hospital for the Insane at Newberry. Over four-hundred buildings are credited to him.
Brisson's talk is sponsored by the Michigan Tech Archives and the Friends of the Van Pelt Library. Since 1998, the Michigan Tech Archives Travel Grant has helped scholars advance their research by supporting travel to the manuscript collections at the Archives. The program is intended to encourage research using the Archives' lesser known collections or promote new methodological approaches to well-known collections. From a competitive field of applicants, the grant committee selected four scholars this year whose research typifies the spirit of the grant program. They join the ranks of 22 past recipients in this most recent round of awards.
For information about the presentation, or about the Michigan Tech Archives and its collections, call 487-2505 or email copper@mtu.edu , or visit http://www.lib.mtu.edu/mtuarchives/ . |
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6. SFHI Candidate Seminar on Converting Biomass into Biofuels |
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Wen Zhou from the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Institute of Bioinformatics, University of Georgia, will present, "Understanding and Improving Biological Conversion of Biomass into Biofuels," at 10 a.m., Friday, April 9, in Rekhi G06. |
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