Cyndi Perkins

Contact

cmperkin@mtu.edu
906-487-3181
Administration Building G03

Associate Director of Communications, University Marketing and Communications

Biography

An award-winning editor, journalist, and columnist, Cyndi generates and manages key communications projects that tell the story of Michigan Tech on digital and print platforms. A story shepherd who thrives on collaboration, her superpowers include content strategy and editorial management. She finds work-life balance in the garden, on her yoga mat, and anywhere near the water.

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About Cyndi

The former Daily Mining Gazette journalist and editor hails from Houghton and has written for a variety of international, national and regional publications.
Specializing in compelling storytelling and cohesive on-brand messaging, the Michigan Tech alumna manages, writes, and edits content across university platforms, from webpages to MTU News.
A novelist active in the Upper Peninsula Authors and Publishers Association, the Authors Guild member looks forward to writing more books—and to camping trips in her RV with husband Scott and Goldendoodle Max.

Recent Stories

Students curling at the Calumet Drillhouse.

Huskies Curl Takes Silver in National Collegiate Competition

Huskies Curl at Michigan Tech took second place in the 2025 USA College Curling Championship, held March 6-9 in Midland, Michigan. The national competition included 16 teams who qualified for the event. Hailing from across the country — from Arizona State University to the United States Naval Academy — all of the competitors were undergraduate or graduate students expected to maintain academic excellence as well as prowess on the curling sheet. Read More

Student in the background at a desk turned around and looking at the yellow and black robot dog.

Meet Balto, Michigan Tech’s Robo Doggo

Balto, named for the legendary husky and lead sled dog who ran the last leg of a more than 500-mile dog sled relay to deliver diphtheria antitoxin to Nome, Alaska, in 1925, will be the greeter in Michigan Tech's new robotics lab, coming to Rekhi Hall.
About the ResearcherAs plans for the facility come together, Balto has been paying visits to students around campus. Michael Walker, assistant professor of computer science, leads the demonstrations. Read More

Two students working on adding details to a snow statue during all-nighter.

It’s Joust About Time for Michigan Tech Winter Carnival

Campus and community will gather Feb. 5-8 for Michigan Tech's annual Winter Carnival, now in its second century. In addition to the event's renowned snow statues and other traditional events, a laser show befitting this year's medieval theme is among the spectacles to look forward to.
The laser show will be projected onto the exterior of the Walker Arts and Humanities Center, located near the Michigan Tech broomball rinks. It will take place directly after the Alumni All Stars Broomball Game on Wednesday, Feb. 5., with a tentative 11:15 p.m. start time. Read More

A white-crowned manakin—black bird with large red eye and white crest on its head.

‘Pristine’ is Not Protection: 27-year Study Links Hotter, Drier Conditions to Decline in Rainforest Bird Populations

The results of the team's 27-year study, "Climate change aggravates bird mortality in pristine tropical forests," were recently published in Science Advances. They reveal that rising temperatures and decreasing rainfall have played a key role in drastically reduced survival rates in dozens of bird species — in some individual species by as much as 50%. Read More

From study abroad to helping save a life, Skyler Spitzley’s time at Tech has been full of firsts. With MTU Winter Carnival just around the corner, she’s excited to carry out her next big endeavor at the helm of the iconic regional event.

There’s No Business Like Snow Business: Meet the Student Leader Managing Winter Carnival

In 2022, Spitzley worked on St. Albert the Great University Parish's winning All-Nighter entry for the snow statue competition. "I stayed up the whole night. I was so proud of myself and I remember being so proud that we erected a statue as large as it was in 15 hours! I still have the Instagram reel of it," she said. Read More

Ruby Walker standing outside the Academic Office Building.

From Leading Scholar to Campus Leader: Ruby Walker Shares Her Michigan Tech Success Story

Walker won the award in 2023. A second-year marketing major in Tech's College of Business, she continues to make her mark at the University — and share gratitude for the full-ride four-year scholarship that brought her here.
About the AwardEach year, more than 1,400 students apply to the Leading Scholar program, which recognizes incoming first-year Huskies who best exemplify leadership traits and scholarly achievement in and outside the classroom. Approximately 850 finalists are invited to Michigan Tech to attend the on-campus portion of the competition in Houghton. Read More

Six people clad in rain gear stand in front of the Isle Royale National Park, an international biosphere reserve sign.

Call of the Isle: Husky Grows Into Leadership Role in Wolf-Moose Research

Schafer, who majors in ecology and evolutionary biology, plans to spend seven weeks on Isle Royale as a member of the 2025 winter study team. He feels both fortunate and eager to be part of the expedition. "I'm getting a lot of island time — island time that not a lot of other people get to do. It's a whole other aspect of the research," he said. Read More