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Gary Krasicky
'77Gary Krasicky graduated from Michigan Tech with high honors, earning a BS in Chemistry in 1977. That same day, he was commissioned as an Air Force second lieutenant and then attended the University of Michigan Medical School on a Health Professions Scholarship. He later took specialty training in Diagnostic Radiology and Nuclear Medicine at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit, where he was recognized for his teaching and research . . .
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Greg Besse
'83From "Besse Foundation Scholarship Endows Access to Michigan Tech for Bay College Transfer Students," Michigan Tech Alumni and Friends Stories, September 2025 A recent gift from the John and Melissa Besse Foundation has established a new scholarship at Michigan Technological University. The John and Melissa Besse Foundation Endowed Scholarship will provide financial awards to transfer students from Bay College beginning . . .
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Melissa Parks
'83Melissa received her bachelor’s degree in Metallurgical amp; Materials Engineering in 1983. She received her master’s in Materials Science amp; Engineering from the University of Cincinnati in 1992. Melissa began her career in Jackson, Mississippi, with Sperry Vicker AMD as a Plant Metallurgical Engineer. In 1984 she joined GE’s Aircraft Engines Division as a Materials Applications Engineer. She . . .
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Boost the New Graduate Emergency Fund
Our industrious Graduate Student Government has seeded the newly created Graduate Student Emergency Fund with donations raised from a laser tag event. Please help them build this fund to give meaningful help to a graduate student who finds themselves in sudden need of help.