May 31, 2024

The route of the 2024 Parade of Nations has been announced! This year's parade will be held Sept. 21 with the theme "Holidays Around the World."

The day of the parade, participating walkers will gather at the Rozsa Center to get their national flags, representing countries from around the world. Parade floats will stage in Parking Lot 1 by the Administration Building, accessible by Cliff Drive.

The parade will begin at 11 a.m. The parade walkers will begin the official parade through the Michigan Tech campus. Parade floats will line up at the stop sign at the Cliff Drive and College Avenue intersection while the walkers approach. As the parade walkers pass through the new Alumni Gateway Arch onto College Avenue, parade guides will direct floats to join, alternating walkers and floats.

The route will take the full mixed parade all along College Avenue through downtown Houghton, dazzling crowds. Then, the parade will turn right onto Quincy Street, and then make another right onto Lakeshore Drive.

The parade will end at Dee Stadium for food and entertainment.

A map of the route can be seen in a Michigan Tech Parade of Nations Facebook post.

Michigan Tech's Public Safety and Police Services and local emergency responders will conduct a mock disaster training at the SDC and Gates Tennis Center on Tuesday (June 4). As a result, both the SDC and Gates Tennis Center will be closed to the public as actors participate in the full-scale simulation of emergency disaster scenarios.

We appreciate your patience and understanding as we support our local emergency responders' training for potential public health emergencies.

Hello, sunshine! The A. E. Seaman Mineral Museum will be open on Sundays for the summer beginning Sunday (June 2) and throughout August 2024.

Our summer hours are Sunday through Saturday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Admission to the museum for Michigan Tech students, staff and faculty is waived with your Tech ID.

Laura Kasson Fiss (PHC) has won the inaugural 2023 First Book Prize from the Victorian Popular Fiction Association for "The Idler's Club: Humour and Mass Readership from Jerome K. Jerome to P. G. Wodehouse" (Edinburgh UP, 2023).

Fiss will receive a £200 cash prize and be honored at the Annual General Meeting of the upcoming VPFA Annual Conference, being held at Canterbury Christ Church University on July 15-17.

The judging panel, Professors Anne-Marie Beller, Kate Newey and Jennifer Phegley, wrote in their decision:

"[Fiss’] exploration of this particular cohort of writers as a literal and metaphorical ‘club’ makes an original contribution to the study of these famous but largely neglected figures who have had a lasting impact on contemporary popular cultural forms. … A consideration of the popular lies at the heart of the study [and] Fiss brings fresh and interesting new ideas to the table. … [Fiss] moves smoothly and cogently between textual analysis, literary critical analysis, and a materialist historical framing of the texts. This is not presented as just context, but is a fundamental understanding of the ways in which this kind of periodical writing participates in a material and industrial landscape of literary production. … The book is a good read, and takes on its subject matter with appropriate humour as well as authority."

The publication of "The Idler's Club" was highlighted in January 2023 on the Humanities News, Features, and Other Updates blog.

Job Posting for Friday, May 31, 2024

Staff and faculty job descriptions are available on the Human Resources website. For more information regarding staff positions, call 906-487-2280 or email humanresources@mtu.edu. For more information regarding faculty positions, contact the academic department in which the position is posted.

Senior Administrative Aide (12 months/ 40 hours/ first shift) #24155, Registrar's Office (UAW posting dates May 31 to June 6, 2024 — external applicants are encouraged to apply; however, internal UAW applicants are given first consideration if they apply during the internal UAW posting dates). Apply online.
Contact: Chad Arney

Michigan Technological University is an Equal Opportunity Educational Institution/Equal Opportunity Employer that provides equal opportunity for all, including protected veterans and individuals with disabilities.

Accommodations are available. If you require any auxiliary aids, services, or other accommodations to apply for employment, or for an interview, at Michigan Technological University, please notify the Human Resources office at 906-487-2280 or humanresources@mtu.edu.

Michigan Tech alumni Chathura de Alwis ’22 (Ph.D. Chemistry) and Kayleigh Wahr ’22 (B.S. Chemistry) and Associate Professor Kathryn A. Perrine (Chem) are the authors of an article published in the Journal of Physical Chemistry A of the American Chemical Society on May 8.

The article is titled "Influence of Cations on Direct CO2 Capture and Mineral Film Formation: The Role of KCl and MgCl2 at the Air/Electrolyte/Iron Interface."

The study finds that Mg2+ and K+ influence atmospheric CO2 adsorption to form cation-specific carbonate films through iron surface oxidation and corrosion at the air/solution/iron interface. These findings are relevant for uncovering mechanisms of CO2 capture as well as planetary and environmental processes.

Their work was featured on the supplementary cover of the May 23 issue.

This project was supported by NASA under award number NNX15AJ20H through the Michigan Space Grant Consortium and by the National Science Foundation MRI CHE 1725818.

Andrew Storer (AA) was quoted by PR Newswire in a news release from PebblePad about the educational software’s incorporation into Michigan Tech’s new Essential Education program. The story was picked up by over 120 media outlets nationwide.

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All Together, the official blog of the Society of Women Engineers, mentioned the SWE section at Michigan Tech in a story about the Spring Forward Professional Development Event hosted April 14-15 by SWE Wisconsin. MTU’s section demonstrated their Arduino outreach project, ““Ignite Your Curiosity with SWE Outreach,” at the event.

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The Keweenaw Report picked up Michigan Tech’s announcement of the Center for Artificial Intelligence. The Center for AI was announced May 23 in Tech Today.

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WLUC TV6 mentioned Michigan Tech in a story about a senior prom held at Calumet’s Gardenview retirement home on May 29. The prom was part of an events campaign for residents that also includes MTU sporting events.

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The Gladwin County Record and Beaverton Clarion mentioned Michigan Tech in a story about the inclusion of Dr. Heidi Monaghan ’04 (B.S. Biology) in the Beaverton Schools Distinguished Alumni Class of 2024. Monaghan is a physician at Foot & Ankle Specialists of Mid-Michigan in Midland.

Get Your Students Career Ready!

Navigating the world of career readiness can be daunting for both students and instructors, but you don’t have to navigate it alone! Career Services can help by talking to your students on a variety of career-related topics including resumes, networking, goal setting, professionalism or any other tailored topic. Presentations fit within class times, so it is easy to include us in your syllabus. If you know you will be traveling, schedule us to speak to your class instead!

We are now planning for fall and would love to work with you. Please use our Career Services Presentation Request Form to request a presentation today!

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Cliff Drive Closed Tomorrow

Cliff Drive will be closed to all traffic from Parking Lot 1 eastward tomorrow (June 1). A new sanitary sewer line for the East Hall project is being installed across Cliff Drive near the entrance of Parking Lot 10, and this will cut off the exit access at the east end of Cliff Drive.

Access around the closure through the construction site will be available for emergency use only.

If you have any questions, please contact facilities@mtu.edu.

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Banner Production System Maintenance on Sunday

A production system maintenance window is scheduled for Sunday (June 2) from 7 a.m. to 1 p.m. The following production services will be unavailable during that time:

• apps.mtu.edu
• Banner
• Banweb
• MyMichiganTech
• ASPIRE
• Course Tools
• OAP Rental System
• Oracle Reports
• UC4/Appworx
• Virtual Cashiering
• WebFocus

If you have any questions or concerns, we can help. Contact us at it-help@mtu.edu or call 906-487-1111.

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Campus Store, University Images Closed for Inventory

The Campus Store and University Images remain closed for inventory today (May 31). Both stores will resume normal summer hours Monday (June 3).

We will be open online at bookstore.mtu.edu while our stores are closed. We'll process orders as soon as we reopen!

If you're interested in hearing more about our sales, promotions and special events, send an email to campusstore@mtu.edu and request to join HuskyDeals.

To have your event automatically appear, please submit them to the University Events Calendar.

No events are scheduled for today. Visit the University Events Calendar.