Biological Sciences Alumni

Nancy graduated from Michigan Tech in 1979 with dual bachelor’s degrees in Business Administration and Biological Sciences. She then accepted a position with General Motors Corporation as an Industrial Engineer, Truck & Coach Division in Pontiac, MI. In 1981, she went to work at GM’s Assembly Plant in Van Nuys, CA in the same capacity. She left General Motors in 1982 and moved to the San Francisco . . .

Gary Fahnenstiel was born in Saginaw, Michigan and has lived in the state his entire life. Gary earned his BS in Biology and Chemistry at Eastern Michigan University in 1978, but his vocation started at Michigan Technological University, where he had the chance to engage in research on Lake Superior as a MS student in Biological Sciences (’80). He pursued a doctorate at the University of Michigan (’86) . . .

Jim Brodeur, a retired physician and long-time financial supporter of Michigan Tech, figures he got twenty-seven good reasons to help the institution. That's the number of people in his family who have attended Tech over five generations, beginning with one of his grandfathers in 1897. Tech has been an important part of our lives, and we want to stay connected and help out, he says. He was active as a student and has . . .