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1. Housing Information Available in the Benefits Office |
Benefits has a housing binder available for members of the Michigan Tech community who have property to sell or rent. Refer incoming faculty or staff looking to buy or rent property to the office at 487-2517 or Nancy Bykkonen at nabykkon@mtu.edu .
Properties in this binder are not appropriate for student housing. |
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2. Affirmative Programs Moves |
Affirmative Programs has moved from the second floor to the third floor of the Administration Building, room 308.
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3. Reminder: Personal Day Use |
Benefits would like to remind employees that personal days must be used no later than September 4 for professionals and non-represented staff and no later than October 2 for AFSCME employees.
If personal days remain unused by this time, they will not be carried over. A personal day for the 2010-2011 year will be added effective September 5, and October 3, respectively. The personal leave balance can be viewed through Employee Self Service at www.banweb.mtu.edu .
For questions, contact Benefits at 487-2517, Payroll at 487-2130 or email Renee at rlhiller@mtu.edu . |
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4. On the Road |
Professor Sonia Goltz (School of Business and Economics) presented "Chicken Soup for Organizational Behavior," June 17 and 18 at the Organizational Behavior Teaching Conference in Albuquerque, N.M. Goltz and Lecturer Teresa Woods (SBE) also presented "Organizational Behavior and Human Resources Teaching Moments from the Apprentice."
Director Pasi Lautala of the Rail Transportation Program and Professor Bill Sproule (CEE) participated in the Railroad Engineering Education Symposium (REES) in Kansas City, Mo., June 14-16. REES is a collaborative effort by the rail industry and academia to introduce university faculty to the basics of rail transportation and railroad engineering. Twenty-five professors from the US and Canada participated in this year's event. Both Sproule and Lautala were members of the Academic Faculty Advisory Committee for the event. Lautala also participated in the academic round table discussions and presented a module in the Railway Alignment Design and Geometry. Sproule presented a module in Transit, Commuter and Intercity Passenger Rail Transportation.
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5. Proposals in Progress |
David Shonnard (Chemical Engineering/SFI), "NSF Engineering Research Center for Sustainable Forest-Based Biofuels Transportation Systems--Woods-to-Wheels," NSF
Paul Sanders (EMSE/IMP), "High Strength Chill Cast 7075," GS Engineering, American Foundry Society
Ching-An Peng (Chemical Engineering), "Nano-contrast Agent for Multi-imaging Modalities and Hyperthermia," and "Polymeric Nanocarriers for HSV-TK/GCV Suicide Gene Therapy of Breast Cancer," and "Antitumor Activity of Cytosine Deaminase/5-Fluorocytosin and SN-38," DOD/Army/CDMRP
Paul Doskey (ECE/ESC), Thomas Pypker (SFRES/ESC), "Development of a Relaxed Eddy Accumulation Method for Measuring Atmosphere-Surface Exchange of the Stable Isotopes of Methane and Carbon Dioxide," DOE
Alex Mayer (GMES/MTCWS), "Analysis of Hydrogeochemistry of Upland-Peatland Watersheds Using Isotopic Tracers," Forest Service, Northern Research Station
Simon Carn (GMES/EPSSI), "Continuation of Long-Term Sulfur Dioxide EDR with the NPP Ozone Mapping and Profiler Suite Nadir Mapper," UMBC, NASA
Yongmei Jin (MSE/IEM), "Magnetic Field-Induced Reversible Phase Transformations in Ferromagnetic Shape Memory Alloys: Modeling of Microstructure, Properties and Applications," Texas A&M /Texas Engineering Experiments Station/Army Research Office
Brian Thelen (MTRI), "Knowledge Enhanced Comprehensive Measurement," General Dynamics-AIS/DARPA
Christopher Cischke (ECE/IGLE), Richard Berkey (IIS/IGLE), "Indoor Navigation System for Dementia Patients," National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance
Yue Yi (CEE/SFI), "Quantifying the Effects of Mainshock-aftershock Sequences on Building Vulnerability Models: Collaborative Research Between Michigan Tech, University of Alabama and USGS," USGS
Nikola Subotic (MTRI), "SAR Waveforms for Target Directed Coherent Change Detection and Adaptive RFI Mitigation," National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency
Elena Semouchkina (ECE/CISSIC), George Semouchkina (ECE/CISSIC), Joseph Burns (MTRI/CISSIC), "Remote Detection of Metamaterial Structures using RADAR Backscatter," DoD/National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency
Joseph Bump (SFRES/ESC), "Offshore Bat Activity Over Lake Michigan Wind Resource Areas," Michigan DNR
Samantha Wojda (ME-EM), Seth Donahue (BME), "The Effects of Hibernation on Bat Metabolism in the Yellow-bellied Marmots," NSF
Keat Ghee Ong (BME), Michael Neuman (BME), Robert Warrington (IIS), Richard Berkey (IIS), "Industrial/Clinical Integrated Team-Based Senior Design Program," NIH
Qing-Hui Chen (SESC), "Neural Mechanisms of Sympathetic Activation by High Salt Intake," American Heart Association
Oliver Gailing (SFRES/ESC), Andrew Storer (SFRES/ESC), "Emerald Ash Borer (EAB)—Resistant Ash Trees and Gene Conservation—Application of Molecular Marker Techniques," USDA Forest Service
Patricia Heiden (Chemistry/BRC), Ashutosh Tiwari (Chemistry/BRC), Martin Thompson (SCH/BRC), Jin Chen (Chemistry/BRC), "Novel Nanoparticle Conjugates," CDMRP/Breast Cancer/Concept Award
Ching-Kuang Shene (CS), Melissa Keranen (MS), Jean Mayo (CS), "The Design of Course Materials and Visualization System for Modern Cryptography," NSF
Abdul Nasser Alaraje (SOT), Aleksandr Sergeyev (SOT), "Power Engineering Technology: Bridging the Gap between Academia and Industry," NSF
Jean Mayo (CS), Steven Carr (CS), "Exploring Access Control," NSF
Xinli Wang (SOT), Jean Mayo (CS), Guy Hembroff (SOT), "Learning Innovation by Doing and Observing: Laboratory Experiments for Undergraduate Education of Practical Information Security," NSF
Hairong Wei (SFRES/ESC), Andrew Storer (SFRES/ESC), Victor Busov (SFRES/ESC), Oliver Gailing (SFRES/ESC), "Development of Molecular Markers for Detection of Emerald Ash Borer in Ash Trees and Identification of Genetic Resistance Mechanisms against Emerald Ash Borer (EAB)," USDA Forest Service
Andrew Storer (SFRES/ESC), "Tolerance and Long Term Survival of Ash Trees in the Presence of Emerald Ash Borer," USDA Forest Service
Nancy French (MTRI), "Spatially-explicit Modeling of Black Carbon Sources and Sinks in Terrestrial Ecosystems," Cornell University/NASA
Aleksandr Sergeyev (SOT), Abdul Nasser Alaraje (SOT), "Promoting Robotics Automation: Curriculum and State-of-the-Art Robotics Laboratory Development," NSF
Alex Kotinski (Physics/RSI), "Laboratory Studies of the Interaction between Areosol/Cloud-droplets/Ice/Thermodynamics and its Modeling Implications," UMBC/DOE
Gretchen Hein (Engineering Fundamentals), Amber Kemppainen (Engineering Fundamentals), Norma Veurink (Engineering Fundamentals), Susan Amato-Henderson (CLS), "Learning Through Integrated Engineering Connections (LINC)," NSF
Charles Van Karsen (ME-EM), Jeffery Allen (ME-EM), Jason Blough, (ME-EM), Michele Miller (ME-EM), Sheryl Sorby (ME-EM), "Curriculum Change Through a Focus on the NAE Grand Challenges," NSF
Gerard Caneba (ChE/CEBFM), "Sustainability Emulsion-Based Polymer Experiences," NSF-TUES Program
Bruce Mork (ECE/PERC), Jeffery Burl (ECE/PERC), "Advances in Transformer Protection Sensitivity and Security in the Context of Internal Faults, Inrush, and Black Start," Bonneville Power Administration/DOE
Rudy Luck (Chemistry), Paul Charlesworth (Chemistry), Shiyue Fang (Chemistry), Ashutosh Tiwari (Chemistry), Sarah Green (Chemistry), "Transforming Undergraduate Chemistry at Michigan Technological University," NSF
James Baker (TED/IGLE), Mary Raber (IIS/IGLE), Valorie Troesch (IIS/IGLE), "Innovation Enterprise--Discovery-based Learning to Enable New Economy Entrepreneurs and Innovators," NSF
Mary Raber (IIS/IGLE), Sheryl Sorby (ME-EM/IGLE), Susan Amato-Henderson (CLS/IGLE), Valorie Troesch (IIS/IGLE), "Assessing the Impact of Participation in Michigan Technological University's Enterprise Program on Post-Graduation Career Success," NSF
Chandrashekhar Joshi (SFRES), "Development of High Cellulose Energy Poplar for Biofuel Production," Dr. Ramesh Nair/NSF-SBIR Phase I
Joe Burns (MTRI), "Neonatal Cerebral Function and Neonate Biophysical Monitoring," University of Michigan/NIH
Paul Doskey (CEE/EPSSI), "Measurements of Semivolatile Secondary Organic Aerosol Precursors and Oxidation Products," DOE
Ossama Abdelkhalik (ME-EM), Robert Pastel (CS), "InSPIRE: An Innovative Approach for Crowd Sourcing Spacecraft Formation Flying Control Algorithms," DARPA
Nancy French (MTRI), Brian Thelen (MTRI), Laura Bourgeau-Chavez (MTRI), Guy Serbin (MTRI), "Improving Remote Sensing-based Assessment of Conservation Farming: Practices Using Multi-sensor Remote Sensing and Nanoparametric Estimation Methods," NASA |
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