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DOW CORNING BOARD CHAIRMAN TO ADDRESS MICHIGAN TECH GRADUATES

Gary Anderson, the chairman and chief executive officer of Dow Corning Corporation, will be the featured speaker at Michigan Tech's Spring Commencement on Saturday, May 10.

A total of nearly 800 graduates will be honored at the ceremony. The University will award 708 bachelor of science, 14 bachelor of arts and 23 associate of applied science degrees. In addition, 15 PhD and 37 master of science degrees will be presented.

Also during the ceremony, Anderson will receive an honorary Doctor of Engineering degree in recognition of his accomplishments and service to the University. Anderson graduated from Michigan Tech in 1967 with a BS in Chemical Engineering. He also studied at Central Michigan University, where he earned a master's degree in business administration.

Except for a one-year appointment at the US Department of Commerce in the mid-1980s, Anderson has worked for Dow Corning for his entire career. After a wide range of assignments in manufacturing, process engineering and financial management, he became president of the company in 1994, chief executive officer in 1999 and chairman of the board in 2001.

His involvement with Michigan Tech is extensive. He has been a member of the Board of Trustees of the Michigan Tech Fund since 1991 and recently served as president. He was the vice chair for the University's Leaders for Innovation capital campaign, which raised over $140 million, and was instrumental in securing funding for the Dow Environmental Sciences and Engineering Building.

Anderson served on President Curt Tompkins' National Advisory Board, is a member of the Chemical Engineering Academy and belongs to MTU's 1885 Society. He was awarded the Board of Control Silver Medal in 1993 and the Outstanding Service Award in 2000.

In addition, Anderson has been active in both professional and community service. He is a member of the Conference Board, the World Business Council for Sustainable Development, the American Chemistry Council and the director of the Chemical Industry Institute of Toxicology. He also serves on the board of directors of the Chemical Bank Midland Area and as chairman of the board of trustees of the Midland Community Center.

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SENATE APPROVES NO-CONFIDENCE REFERENDUM

The University Senate voted April 23 to put a no-confidence referendum on President Curt Tompkins before its constituency.

Some senators argued for a no-confidence vote on the Board of Control as well, but the matter never came to a vote. Both matters were presented by the Senate Executive Committee and were not on the agenda.

Senator Larry Davis (SBE), reporting on a meeting that included members of the Board of Control, said that those Board members attending were in favor of a reorganization, though he himself feels it is a "futile exercise."

"They don't want us doing business the way we have for years," Davis said

Senator Bruce Pletka (MSE) said all members of the Board are from industry, and that to use a business model was an "injustice to higher education." He said the Board had not met with faculty, and that more engagement was needed. A no-confidence referendum would "slap them in the face," he said.

Senate President Bob Keen noted that Board Member Kathryn Clark served on the University of Michigan faculty and that Board Member Ruth Reck, who directs a lab at the University of California at Davis, is officially on the faculty.

A number of senators said that the senate should educate the Board rather than promote a no-confidence referendum.

Senator Cindy Selfe (Humanities) read a list of grievances she said came from faculty from three departments charging the administration with providing "a lack of fiscal leadership." The state's budget crisis precipitated MTU's current problems, she said, but a "lack of sound fiscal practices" over the last five or 10 years is the underlying cause; "more-prudent" leadership might have avoided the latest difficulties.

She said the University doesn't have "a good team" to keep it on track, that Tompkins hasn't taken the advice of the Senate Finance Committee and that there was "no case" for reorganization.

Everybody knows that cuts are needed, but they don't like the administration's proposed cuts, Selfe said. They would "displace middle managers that make this place run effectively," she said, and charged that "there was no opportunity for input" on the plan.

She added that she didn't want to see cuts of faculty or staff, saying that would hurt students.

Senator Dickie Selfe (Humanities) said most of his colleagues were in favor of a vote of no confidence and wanted more dialog with the Board of Control.

Senator Erik Nordberg (Library) questioned whether a no-confidence vote would result in any change if the Board of Control supports the administration. He said the Budget Advisory Group has pushed for more fiscal openness and suggested developing a list of expectations instead.

Senator Larry Sutter (Technology) said a no-confidence vote would open up discussion with the Board of Control.

"I don't know what function a vote of no confidence in the Board of Control would have," Senate Secretary Craig Waddell said. Boards are appointed by the governor and are not answerable to their universities.

Pletka said he didn't know what effect a vote of no confidence on Tompkins would have, but "we're mad as hell, and we want to get people's attention."

Senator Don Beck (Physics) said the senate should meet with the Board six times before major decisions are made, and that the senate should be in session for the summer.

"Personally, it grieves me to have to meet a timetable set like that," Cindy Selfe said. People use their summers to write grants and do research, Dickie Selfe said.

"We need to consider the timing on this," Senator David Hand (Civil and Environmental Engineering) said. "The president has been working really hard in Lansing to head off things that would really cut our funding."

"How good has the president been in Lansing?" Senator Jacek Borysow (Physics) said.

On a motion by Cindy Selfe, the senate voted 22-12 to hold a no-confidence referendum on Tompkins and to attach a copy of the minutes of the April 23 senate meeting debate.

"You've outlined charges against the president, but you haven't given the president an opportunity to defend himself in any way," Provost Kent Wray said. He suggested that Tompkins be invited to the senate's next meeting, on April 30, and that the senate would also attach the minutes of that meeting to the referendum ballots. The senate agreed.

In other business, the senate passed proposals on teaching effectiveness, transfer credit evaluation, and a proposed BS in Software Engineering. For more information, see http://www.sas.it.mtu.edu/usenate/propose/2002-03.html

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PROFESSORS DIEHL NAMED DISTINGUISHED ALUMNI AT WESTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY

Professors Jimmy and Suzanne Diehl (GMES) have been named Western Washington University's 2003 Distinguished Alumni.

The Diehls met at WWU while pursuing master's degrees in geology and graduated in 1972. Jimmy Diehl received his bachelor's degree from WWU in 1968.

The couple has shared a single faculty position in geology and geophysics at Michigan Tech for nearly 25 years, where they established a PhD-level research program in paleomagnetism and applied rock magnetism.

Both have received numerous National Science Foundation grants for research, and Jimmy Diehl received the Distinguished Teaching Award at MTU in 1995. He also served as associate editor for the Journal of Geophysical Research from 1994 to 1997.

Suzanne Diehl was associate dean at the College of Engineering from 1994 to 1997 and helped organize the Presidential Commission for Women on campus in 1992. She has also been secretary of the Geomagnetism and Paleomagnetism sections of the American Geophysical Union, an organization of 40,000 earth scientists, and has recently been named director for faculty success and diversity for the College of Engineering.

The couple is actively involved in community service and several children's programs.

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TECH TEAMS FIRST, SECOND IN ENVIRONMENTAL DESIGN COMPETITION

Student teams from Michigan Tech took a first place and a second place at the 13th annual Environmental Design Contest at New Mexico State University. The competition attracted 400 students and 66 teams from around the world.

Tech students took first place in the task titled "water recovery from the operation of brick kilns in the desert southwest." Tech placed second in the task titled "arsenic treatment for small water delivery and domestic water systems."

The competition was sponsored by WERC, a consortium of universities and federal laboratories in New Mexico. It presents students with 10 tasks to develop design solutions for real-world problems.

All teams prepared four different presentations--written, oral, bench-scale models and posters--as part of their tasks.

Ten students participated with the Michigan Tech team and worked on three tasks. Their advisors were Jim Mihelcic, Kurt Paterson (Civil and Environmental Engineering) and John Sandell (School of Technology).

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UNDERGRAD EXPO AT TECH THURSDAY

The 2003 Undergraduate Expo, "Creating the Future: Exploration and Entrepreneurship @ Michigan Tech," will be held Thursday, April 24, in the lobby of the Rozsa Center.

From 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., students from throughout the University will

be showcasing their research achievements. Among those presenting will be undergraduates in MTU's senior design and Enterprise programs.

A panel of faculty members and corporate representatives will critique the projects in three categories: abstracts, posters and presentations. Student participants from all engineering and science disciplines will compete for a wide range of cash prizes.

"The Expo serves as a means of showcasing not only the hard work of many of Michigan Tech's talented students, but also the quality of education that is afforded to Michigan Tech students because of the generous donations made by industry sponsors," organizers said.

The Expo is sponsored by the College of Engineering and Educational Opportunity. For more information, contact Mary Raber at 487-2005 or mraber@mtu.edu or Jean Thompson at 487-2920 or jethomps@mtu.edu.

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FINAL TWO VICE PROVOST AND DEAN OF STUDENT AFFAIRS CANDIDATES TO VISIT CAMPUS

The final two candidates for the position of vice provost and dean of student affairs, Les Cook and Felicia Lee, will visit the Michigan Tech campus this week and early next week for interviews.

In addition to various meetings listed in the itineraries, a presentation and open forum is scheduled for each candidate in Dow 641--

Les Cook on Thursday, April 24, 5:15-6:15, and Felicia Lee on Monday, April 28, 5:15-6:15

The candidates' vitae, bios and itineraries are posted on the University website at http://www.mtu.edu/mtuonly/temp/deanofstudents/

Everyone is invited to attend and help choose our next vice provost and dean of student affairs.

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MICHIGAN TECH STUDENTS TO BE HONORED AT HAANA BANQUET

The third annual HAANA banquet honoring Hispanic, African American and Native American graduates of Michigan Tech will be held Friday, April 25, at 6 p.m. in the Memorial Union Ballroom. Provost Kent Wray will present the HAANA awards.

Keynote speaker Carlos F. Alonzo, a Michigan Tech alumnus (Class of '98), will address the graduates. After earning bachelor's and master's degrees in materials science and engineering, he joined the Eastman Kodak Company. Alonzo has been involved in the successful development of precision glass molding, a process that has resulted in a pending patent.

He is the chairman of the Rochester chapter of ASM International, a technical society of materials engineers.

HAANA will also be hosting the presentation of the Percy Julian Award. The award recognizes an undergraduate who has demonstrated leadership in the promotion of social equality and racial, ethnic and cultural understanding. The award commemorates the innovative research chemist Percy L. Julian (1899-1975), who engaged in various civil rights activities during his lifetime.

Outreach and Multiethnic Programs, a division of Educational Opportunity; and the Office of Student Affairs are sponsoring the HAANA banquet, supported by a generous contribution from the Dow Chemical Company Foundation.

The public is welcome to attend. Tickets are $16 per person. For more information, call 487-2920.

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TECH FUND NAMES MERIT AWARD WINNERS

Michigan Tech seniors Tonya M. Brabec, of Prescott, Wis., and Matthew J. Dura, of Holly, are the 2003 Michigan Tech Fund Merit Award recipients.

Merit Awards recognize superior leadership, achievement and service to the University.

Brabec, graduating in May with a BS in Biomedical Engineering, was nominated by Professor David Nelson. "Tonya epitomizes the well-rounded student," he said. "She is truly a scholar-athlete who has a strong work ethic and a profound social conscience."

Brabec has a 3.55 grade point average and is the student coach and manager of MTU's women's varsity basketball team, as well as the 2002 MTU Team Spirit Award recipient. She is a research assistant in her department's exercise physiology lab and secretary of the Varsity Club.

Brabec also has volunteered as a coach for the Little Huskies basketball program, as a story reader in local elementary schools , for the Copper Country Humane Society and as a Sunday School teacher.

Dura graduates in May with a 3.95 GPA and a BS in Civil Engineering. He is co-captain and chair of Michigan Tech's Concrete Canoe Team, which won the American Society of Civil Engineers regional championship in April. He has co-chaired the Winter Carnival Statues Committee as a member of Blue Key National Honor Fraternity and serves as an after-school teacher in Lake Linden and Ironwood for the Western U.P. Center for Science, Math and Environmental Education. Dura has also worked with local students in the FIRST Lego Competition.

In addition, he chops wood for Little Brothers Friends of the Elderly and is on the board of trustees of Grace United Methodist Church, in Houghton.

Brabec and Dura each received a framed and engraved 11-by-14-inch photo of the campus and $250.

Five Merit Award Nominees of Distinction will each receive $100 and a certificate. They are David T. Beaudette, majoring in business administration, of Lake Linden; Melissa A. Benson, biomedical engineering, of DeWitt; Subodh Loknath, computer science, of Karnataka, India; Jason M. Markesino, mechanical engineering, of Waterford; and Sara E. Schooley, environmental engineering, of Hoffman Estates, Ill.

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TEACHING AT TECH: TIME FOR A NEW PARADIGM? (Part Three)

by William Kennedy, Director

Center for Teaching, Learning and Faculty Development

John Tagg argues in his new volume, "The Learning Paradigm College," that colleges need to rethink their entire approach to undergraduate education if they are to successfully engage a growing number of contemporary students and fulfill their fundamental educational missions.* Tagg cites three decades of studies that demonstrate that teacher-centered instructional methods are failing to engage a larger and larger percentage of our students. He calls for a rethinking of the entire undergraduate enterprise, rebuilding it on principles arising from research on human learning.

 Learning, according to scholar of higher education John Biggs, is "a way of interacting with the world. As we learn, our conceptions of phenomena change, and we see the world differently. The acquisition of information in itself does not bring about such a change, but the way we structure that information and think with it does. Thus, education is about conceptual change, not just the acquisition of information."*

Biologically, we know that learning actually changes a brain in ways that other activities do not. In animal studies, researchers conclude that "learning imposes new patterns of organization on the brain, and this phenomenon has been confirmed by electrophysiological recordings of the activity of nerve cells."*

Learning is related to memory. Researchers have long sought to explain the obvious variations in memory that we commonly experience. Why do we remember some things and forget others? Some contemporary researchers suggest that memories are initially stored episodically and only later transferred to semantic memory systems. Episodic memories are retrieved by attempting to replay an entire experience including its associated context. Semantic memories, on the other hand, are distilled and stripped of contextual information and are stored like entries in a thesaurus where they can be reliably retrieved.

When a teacher tries to help a student with a math problem, for example, she unconsciously and effortlessly draws upon a vast reservoir of semantic memories to select the proper method to solve the problem. Students, on the other hand, retrieve similar information by having to replay the entire learning experience episodically; experience fraught with detail and contextual noise. This view of the role of memory in learning might help to explain why students seem to forget so much information from one term to the next. It may be that the information retained for the test, but lost between terms, was yet to be translated from episodic to semantic memory.

Scholar Paul Ramsden argues that how students learn something largely determines what they will ultimately retain and be able to use. Swedish researchers Marton and Saljo contend that students who learn through rote, sequential recall retain information only superficially and temporarily. Students who actually engage and process the incoming information, genuinely looking for patterns or levels of meaning and relating the new ideas with presently held conceptions, retain and can use that information in a deeper, more long lasting way.

The pedagogical implications of these ideas are clear. Creating learning environments that make students active agents in classroom learning rather than passive recipients increases the odds for genuine intellectual engagement for many of our students. Intellectual engagement enables deeper learning. Deeper learning and active learning techniques encourage the transfer of newly acquired information from episodic to semantic memory. Semantic memory enables problem solving, retention and further inquiry in other domains.

Whitehead observed in 1929, "In my own work at universities, I have been struck by the paralysis of thought induced in pupils by the aimless accumulation of precise knowledge, inert and unutilized. The details of knowledge which are important will be picked up ad hoc in each avocation of life, but the habit of the active utilization of well-understood principles is the final possession of wisdom."†

* Anker Publishing, Bolton, MA, 2003

† The Aims of Education and Other Essays.  The Free Press, New York, NY.

HISTORIAN TO SPEAK ON FOUNDING FATHER OF CONSERVATION

Theodore Roosevelt is credited as the first U.S. president to raise America's consciousness of its environmental heritage. His friend and partner was Gifford Pinchot, the father of modern forestry and the first chief of the U.S. Forest Service.

Historian Char Miller will give a talk on this original conservationist, "Gifford Pinchot and the Making of Modern Environmentalism," Thursday, April 24, at 7 p.m. in Room G002 of Hesterberg Hall, at Michigan Tech's School of Forest Resources and Environmental Science.

Miller's latest book, "Gifford Pinchot and the Making of Modern Environmentalism," is a look at Pinchot's role in bringing forestry to America and his leadership in the turn-of-the-century conservation movement.

The chair of the History Department of Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas, Miller is the author of "The Greatest Good, 100 Years of Forestry in America" and editor of "Fluid Arguments: Five Centuries of Western Water Conflict" and "On the Border, An Environmental History of San Antonio."

His talk is free and open to the public. A book signing will follow his presentation.

Miller's visit is sponsored by the School of Forest Resources and Environmental Science.

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MICHIGAN TECH PRESENTS UNIQUE ORCHESTRA AND THEATER PRODUCTION

submitted by Fine Arts

Michigan Tech's University Theatre and the Keweenaw Symphony Orchestra join forces this week to present a unique play for actors and orchestra, "Every Good Boy Deserves Favor," written by playwright Tom Stoppard with music by André Previn. Christopher Plummer, assistant professor of theater, makes his MTU debut as stage director for the combined theater/KSO production. Long-time KSO music director Jeffrey Bell-Hanson, now a faculty member at Pacific Lutheran University, returns as conductor for the two performances, at 8 p.m. on Saturday, April 26, and 3 p.m. on Sunday, April 27.

 "We're excited about giving everyone the chance to see this wonderful play by Stoppard and Previn, which is rarely staged because it requires a full symphony orchestra," Plummer said. Stoppard, best known for the Oscar-winning movie "Shakespeare in Love," is the author of more than a dozen hit plays including "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead" and "Travesties." Previn is the long-time conductor of the London Symphony and award-winning composer of both popular and classical music.

Working together in London in the mid-1970s, Previn and Stoppard decided to create a play in which the orchestra would have a leading role, not in accompanying singers but in the action of the play itself. The result: A play in Stoppard's provocative, sharp-witted style about dissent in a highly structured society, set in a state-controlled mental hospital in the Soviet Union. (The title comes from the words young musicians use in memorizing the lines of the treble staff, E-G-B-D-F.) Previn's score and the orchestra are integrated into the action of the play in surprising ways.

The play explores the ways dissenting voices are stifled or controlled, using as a starting point the experiences of political prisoners and other inmates in a Soviet institution. While the setting in the Soviet Union may distance the action from a modern American audience, the play invites the audience to reflect on conformity and dissent more broadly, as they're experienced in a society that values freedom as well as stability and order.

The orchestra--a group of individuals in "dialog" with one another in a tightly controlled setting--also provides a model of power and control. Bell-Hanson notes that the orchestra is a nearly ideal model of the kind of human cooperation that makes communities work. Yet cooperation can easily yield to coercion and conformity. "Without enough freedom for the individuals in the orchestra to make their own unique contributions to the fabric of the symphony, the resulting music is not worth the effort it takes to produce it," he observes.

"E-G-B-D-F" premiered in London in 1977, directed by Trevor Nunn, featuring the London Symphony and actors Sir Ian McKellan, John Wood and Patrick Stewart. The most recent production was the Philadelphia Orchestra's one-week production, in November 2002.

The Michigan Tech cast for "E-G-B-D-F" includes six actors, undergraduates Josh Hamilton, Laura Loo and Adam Sommerfield, plus graduate student Pasi Lautala and community members John Manno and Gordon Mars, all veterans of numerous past productions. Students and faculty trained in the fine arts department's technical theater classes designed and built the set, lights, sound system and costumes for the play. Thirty-three students fill key roles on the production staff and crew, including assistant director Lori Caelwaerts, lighting designer Michael Goddard, sound designer Toni Locatelli, stage manager Brian Berman and members of this year's advanced scene design class, taught by assistant professor Mary Carol Friedrich. Friedrich also designed costumes for the play.

In his second year on the Michigan Tech faculty, director Plummer earned an MFA in theater, specializing in sound design, at the University of Illinois Champaign-Urbana, receiving the prestigious national Sound Achievement Award from the U.S. Institute for Theatre Technology in 2001. His many credits include work with the Hangar Theatre and Cornell University in Ithaca, N.Y., as well as the University of Illinois. Conductor Bell-Hanson is in his first season as associate professor of music at Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma, Wash. Before moving to Washington, he spent 14 years as director of bands and orchestra at Michigan Tech.

Tickets for "Every Good Boy Deserves Favor" are available from Rozsa Center Ticketing Services, 487-3200, http://www.tickets.mtu.edu, and at the door, for $15 general, $6 students. More information is available from the Department of Fine Arts, 487-2067.

MEEM GRADUATE SEMINAR THURSDAY

Alec Gallimore, director of the Michigan Space Grant Consortium at the University of Michigan, will present a seminar, "Applying What We Have Learned from Studying the P5 Hall Thruster," on Thursday, April 24, 3-4 p.m. in MEEM 112.

FACULTY AND STAFF RECEIVE FUNDING

Professor Bryan Suits (Physics) has received $62,875 from the U.S. Department of Defense, Office of Naval Research for his project "Instrumentation for Magnetic Resonance Explosive Detection."

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MTU NOTABLES

Associate Professor Chelley Vician (SBE) and 12 students attended the Eighth Annual National Collegiate Conference for AITP (Association of Information Technology Professionals). The National competition was held March 26-30, at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Ind.

Members attended various seminars and also competed in several events. They finished second in a field of 57 teams in Network Design, taking home a trophy and prize money. In an effort to give back to the school and AITP the team donated a percentage of the prize money to the organization. The winning team members were David Beaudette, Paul Beilke and Josh Pawlak.

Other team members attending the conference were  Jacob Manchester, Josh Rheault, Adam Mitteer, Paul Beeman, Tom Jurewicz, Mark Johnson, Bronson Kendzierski, Wendy Storck and Dan Weir.

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IN PRINT

Professor Vladimir D. Tonchev (Mathematical Sciences) published a paper "Self-Orthogonal Codes from Symmetric Designs with Fixed-Point-Free Automorphisms," in Vol. 264 (2003) of Discrete Mathematics, jointly with Masaaki Harada from Yamagata University, Japan.

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PROPOSALS IN PROGRESS

Researchers, their proposals and their potential sponsors are

*John W. Sutherland (MEEM), Patrick Joyce (SBE), "Model-Based Analysis of the Impact of Future Vehicle/Industry Changes on Automotive Material Life-Cycles," NSF

*John W. Sutherland, Kenneth L. Gunter (MEEM), "Inventory and Value Management in Demanufacturing Facilities," NSF

*John Gershenson (MEEM), "Product Modularity--The Link Between Product Architecture and Product Life-Cycle," NSF

*John Gershenson (MEEM), "The Construction of a Structured Toolset for Lean Engineering Design," NSF

*Paul L. Bergstrom (Electrical and Computer Engineering), "GOALI: Integrating Low Temperature MEMS with High Density CMOS," NSF

*Sarah A. Green (Chemistry), "Identification of Short-Lived Radicals in Tobacco Smoke," NIH

*Leonard J. Bohmann (Electrical and Computer Engineering), Hugh S. Gorman, Kathleen E. Halvorsen, Barry D. Solomon (Social Sciences), Mark C. Roberts (SBE), "Removing the Barriers to Large Scale-Wind Energy," NSF

*Chunxiao Chigan (Electrical and Computer Engineering), "Design of Multilayer Security Framework for Mobile/Wireless Ad Hoc Networks," NSF

*William J. Endres (MEEM), "Model-Based Tooling Selection for Optimally Robust Dynamic Performance in Machining," NSF

*Linda M. Nagel (SFRES), "Integrated Field Practicum for Foresters and Ecologists," USDA-CSREES

*Paul L. Bergstrom (Electrical and Computer Engineering), "MLSC: Biosensor Array for Detection of Blood Pressure Regulating Hormones," Michigan State University (MLSC)

*Judith Perlinger (Civil and Environmental Engineering), "Multicapillary Collection Device (MCCD) for Speciated Analyses of Organic Aerosols," University of Chicago

*Ghatu Subhash, Xin-Lin Gao (MEEM), "GOALI: Ultra-Fine Grain and Nanostructured Ceramics: Influence of Processing Grain Size and Strain Rate on Fracture," NSF

*Ibrahim Miskioglu, Burhanettin S. Altan (MEEM), "Gradient Theories and Nano-Indentation Applied to Interphase Characterization," NSF

*John W. van de Lindt (Civil and Environmental Engineering), "LRFD Load Calibration for State of Michigan Trunkline Bridges," MDOT

*Igor Kliakhandler (Mathematical Sciences), " Rayleigh-Taylor Instability, Non-Newtonian Rheology, and Chain of Bubbles in Polymer Solutions," NSF

*James M. Schmierer Jr., Scott D. Noble, Michael D. Hyslop (SFRES), "Geospatial Data Acquisition and Dissemination System (GDADS)," Laird Norton Endowment Foundation

*Bruce Mork (Electrical and Computer Engineering), "Development of Collaborative Research: Advanced Computer Simulation Methods for Improvement of Power System Security," Fulbright

*Noel R. Urban, Martin T. Auer (Civil and Environmental Engineering), Nancy A. Auer (Biological Sciences), "Collaborative Research: Interactions of C and P Cycling with Food Web Structure Across Multiple Gradients," NSF

*Adrian Sandu (Computer Science), "CMG Collaborative Research: Computational Tools for Analyzing Reactive Atmospheric Pollutants Under Uncertainty in Strength and Location of Emission," NSF

*James R. Wood (GMES), "In-Place Gas Resource Assessment of Cretaceous Shales, Eastern N. Dakota," U.S. Department of Energy

*David R Shonnard (Chemical Engineering), Barry Solomon (Social Sciences), "Collaborative Research: Developing Design Guidance for Environmentally Conscious Chemical Processes," NSF

*Tammy Haut Donahue (MEEM), "Finite Element Analysis of Small Blood Pumps," Penn State

*Walter W. Milligan (Materials Science and Engineering), "Constitutive Modeling for Propulsion Systems Prognostics," Pratt and Whitney (DARPA)

*J. Y. Hwang (GMES), Zhiyong Xu, Robert C. Greenlund (IMP), "Controlling Mercury Emissions with Spent Catalytic Converter Cores," US DOE

*Xiaodi Huang (IMP), Richard Gertsch (GMES), "Nanometer Diamond Composites and Coatings," DOE

*John Gershenson, John Sutherland (MEEM), John Crittenden (Civil and Environmental Engineering), "Product Modularity--The Link Between Product Architecture and Product Life-Cycle," NSF

*Zhi Tian (Electrical Engineering), "Ultra Wideband Tactical Communications," University of Minnesota

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CALENDAR: APRIL

24--Thursday

8:30 a.m.-5 p.m.--Department of Mechanical Engineering-Engineering  Mechanics Senior Design Day--MEEM

10 a.m.-4 p.m.--2003 Undergraduate Expo, "Creating the Future: Exploration and Entrepreneurship @ Michigan Tech"-Lobby, Rozsa Center

Noon-1 p.m.--Weight Watchers meeting--Admin 226

3-4 p.m.--Seminar, "Applying What We Have Learned from Studying the P5 Hall Thruster"--MEEM 112

7 p.m.--"Preserving Time and Place: Building a Time Capsule"-- Calumet Public/School Library

7 p.m.--Historian Char Miller, "Gifford Pinchot and the Making of Modern Environmentalism"--Hesterberg Hall G002

25--Friday

6/7:15 p.m.--Club Indigo, Dinner/Movie, "Charade"--Calumet Theatre

26-- Saturday

8 p.m.--"Every Good Boy Deserves Favor"--Rozsa Center

27--Sunday

3 p.m.--"Every Good Boy Deserves Favor"--Rozsa Center

28--Monday

4 p.m.--Seminar, "Transport Mechanisms Controlling North American Trace Gas Import and Export,"--Dow 642

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MICHIGAN TECH POSITION AVAILABLE

Job descriptions will be available at 1 p.m. on Friday, or by e-mail at <JOBS@MTU.EDU>.

The following positions will be posted Friday, April 25, 2003, at 1 p.m. through noon, Friday, May 2, 2003, in the Human Resources Office or at http://www.admin.mtu.edu/hro/postings/

Assistant Professor--School of Technology (Regular, full-time, nine-month position)

University employees are reminded to apply in writing prior to noon, Friday, May 2, 2003, to be considered as internal candidates for bargaining unit positions only. Applicants from the recall pool will be given first consideration for non-bargaining-unit positions only. Vacancy announcements are normally posted every Friday at 1 p.m. in the Human Resources Office. Complete job descriptions are available in the Human Resources Office or by calling 487-2280. More information regarding employment opportunities is available by calling the Job Line at 487-2895. Michigan Technological University is an equal opportunity educational institution/equal opportunity employer.

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