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The Michigan Tech track and field teams, along with student-athletes Landon Cosby and Sam Lange, have been awarded USTFCCCA All-Academic honors.
In order to qualify for team honors, the cumulative GPA of all student-athletes on indoor and outdoor teams must average above a 3.0. The women's team earned recognition with an overall GPA of 3.54 while the men of Michigan Tech finished the 2023-24 year with a 3.51 GPA.
Read more at Michigan Tech Athletics.
Season tickets for Michigan Tech hockey, football, basketball and volleyball are on sale at the Student Development Complex (SDC) Central Ticket Office or online at BuyHuskiesTickets.com.
Pricing for 2024-25 season tickets is available at Michigan Tech Athletics. The Early Bird deadline for all sports is Aug. 5.
Job Postings for Tuesday, July 16, 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) #24179, Merchandising Operations (UAW posting dates July 16 to July 22, 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.
Senior Administrative Aide (12 months/ 40 hours/ first shift) #24186, Merchandising Operations (UAW posting dates July 16 to July 22, 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.
Food Service Helper (nine months/ 40 hours/ first shift) #24207, Dining Services (AFSCME posting dates July 16 to July 22, 2024 — external applicants are encouraged to apply; however, internal AFSCME applicants are given first consideration if they apply during the internal AFSCME posting dates). Apply online.
Custodian (nine months/ 40 hours/ first shift) #24206, Facilities Management (AFSCME posting dates July 16 to July 22, 2024 — external applicants are encouraged to apply; however, internal AFSCME applicants are given first consideration if they apply during the internal AFSCME posting dates). Apply online.
Merchandising Coordinator, Merchandising Operations. Apply online.
Custodian (12 months/ 40 hours/ first shift) #24204, 24205, Facilities Management (AFSCME posting dates July 16 to July 22, 2024 — external applicants are encouraged to apply; however, internal AFSCME applicants are given first consideration if they apply during the internal AFSCME posting dates). Apply online.
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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.
Xiang Li, who will join the Department of Geological and Mining Engineering and Sciences (GMES) as an assistant professor of geological engineering in August, is the lead author of a paper published in the prestigious journal Geophysical Research Letters.
The paper, titled “Exploring the Behaviors of Initiated Progressive Failure and Slow-Moving Landslides in Los Angeles Using Satellite InSAR and Pixel Offset Tracking,” finds that the Rolling Hills Estates landslide, which destroyed 12 homes in California on July 8, 2023, could have been predicted within a three-day time lag using Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR) observation data. Their findings provide strong evidence that satellite remote sensing data can contribute to landslide early warning systems and can also be used to better understand the impacts of climate change on landslide hazards.
The publication was featured in The LA Times and Phys.org.
Trans World Radio mentioned Michigan Tech in a story featuring engineering intern Emma, a rising senior in mechanical engineering at MTU in 2024-25, who is currently working in Guam as a summer intern.
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The Michigan Department of Natural Resources mentioned Michigan Tech in a press release announcing that Michigan’s forest products added $26.5 billion to Michigan’s economy in 2022. MTU was named as a partner of the DNR in the promotion of mass timber construction, which uses engineered wood panels and beams instead of steel and concrete. The press release was picked up by WZMQ 19 News and Morning Ag Clips.
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MLive mentioned Michigan Tech in a story about new rules announced by the National Park Service for Isle Royale National Park to reduce the island’s wolves’ access to human food and garbage. The story mentioned MTU’s annual Isle Royale Winter Study — the longest-running predator-prey study in the world. The 65th annual report, announced by Michigan Tech News in April, estimated that 30 wolves were living on Isle Royale in January.
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Western Pennsylvania’s TribLIVE interviewed Michigan Tech hockey defenseman Chase Pietila and former Husky forward Logan Pietila in a story discussing Chase’s development as a defenseman and selection by the Pittsburgh Penguins in the 2024 NHL Draft, as well as what comes next for the brothers.
PhD Defense: Samantha Quade, HU
Please join the Department of Humanities (HU) for Ph.D. student Samantha Quade’s doctoral defense, held virtually via Zoom at 8 a.m. today, July 16.
The title of Quade’s dissertation is “Recognition, Subject Formation, and Agency: Understanding the Effect of Marginalization and Agency on Subjectivity, as seen through Feminist Dystopian Narratives.”
From the abstract:
Though more frequently discussed in regard to freedom and intersubjectivity, subject formation and recognition have significant potential in helping us understand the structures of power, domination, and resistance in our lived experiences. Through the portrayal of recognition within literature - particularly within feminist dystopian literature - we can see significant examples of not only recognition experiences between characters, but also the acknowledgement of or resistance against said structures of power through recognition. To explore this concept, I begin by assessing the experience of empathy – or moral imagination, according to Martha Nussbaum – in reading and in writing, along with the argument surrounding the responsibility of readers and authors. I then draw attention to the presence of moral imagination within feminist dystopia, due to the genre’s inherent magnification of social issues. Following discussions of moral imagination and responsibility, the primary chapters address three varying forms that recognition takes within feminist dystopian literature: individual, institutional, and self recognition. Though each form expands from the same platform of recognition – from philosophers such as Hegel, Sartre, Butler, Foucault, and others – they not only manifest slightly differently as characters are portrayed as experiencing recognition, but the portrayals also have varying implications in what the characters – and readers – can take away from the portrayals, as well. Specifically, the implications center primarily around the more in-depth understanding of marginalization, oppression, and power that can be gained from experiencing both corrupted and uncorrupted recognition. The implications of understanding and engaging agency through recognition experiences can be seen through feminist dystopian characters engaging and utilizing their agency in a variety of ways to address, challenge, and/or dismantle the oppressive structures around them. Using Nussbaum’s moral imagination, these implications can lead readers to empathize with these characters and gain similar recognitive and agential experiences in their own lives as well.
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RSVP Open Enrollment
The Retirement Supplemental Voluntary Program (RSVP) is a voluntary retirement program offered to eligible Michigan Tech employees. The enrollment period during which an employee may sign their RSVP election began Monday, July 1, and ends Oct. 31.
Employees electing the monetary retirement option must retire on or before June 30, 2025. The monetary retirement option provides a benefit equal to 15% of the eligible employee’s annual salary (nine-month salary for faculty), up to the cap amount of $45,000 at the time of their actual retirement date. For further clarification, please see the RSVP policy.
Prior to electing RSVP, employees should contact Benefits Services to verify their eligibility.
RSVP questions should be directed to Benefits Services at hr-help@mtu.edu or by phone at 906-487-2517.
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Let's Talk Science: Bioinformatics with Connor Brown
Join Connor Brown for a campus presentation titled "Sensitively untangling microbial ecology and evolution in complex microbiomes through microdiversity-aware bioinformatics."
The presentation will take place in GLRC 202 tomorrow, July 17, from 3-4 p.m.
In 2022, Brown was honored with Virginia Tech's Outstanding Doctoral Student in Interdisciplinary Programs award. He completed his Ph.D. in December 2023 and is currently a postdoctoral researcher at Virginia Tech.
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