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Ray Smith Searches for Mines in His Golden Years
Former Michigan Tech President Ray Smith is featured in a story in Arizona’s Green Valley News and Sun. The story chronicles how Smith and three other men locate old hazardous mining sites in 10,000...
View ArticleAlex Guth to Appear on the National Geographic Channel
Alex Guth to appear on the National Geographic Channel prime US slot on Sunday 25th July (9.00pm ET), under the new title ‘Clash of the Continents’.
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Alumni Jim Wark Awarded Aerial Photographer of the Year 2012
Jim Wark has been honored for the third time by Aerial Photographers Association. He is a Michigan Tech Geological and Mining Engineering and Sciences graduate with a BS in both geological engineering...
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2012 GMES Awards Banquet
The Department of Geological & Mining Engineering & Sciences 12th Annual Awards Ceremony was held Thursday, April 11, 2012 at the Ramada Inn Hancock Michigan Photos can be seen on the...
View ArticleAlumnus Brings Education to Ugandan Children
In 2007, Michigan Tech alumnus Jim Tanis, geological engineering ’56 ’58 and his wife, Jan Tanis, were honeymooning and globetrotting. They went to Kilimanjaro, Tanzania and finally Uganda, where they...
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Alumni News: Debbie Huntzinger
Debbie Huntzinger is an award-winning researcher who applies carbon cycle lessons to industry as a faculty at Northern Arizona University. Over the years, Debbie Huntzinger’s academic interests...
View ArticleKellie Carpenter Rotunno, geological engineering graduate in the News
Kellie Carpenter Rotunno, a 1987 geological engineering graduate and director of engineering and construction for the Northeast Ohio Regional Sewer District, was interviewed by the Cleveland Plain...
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2013 Field Trip: Eastern Isle Royale: Large Lava Flows
Geological Field Trip – Eastern Isle Royale, Michigan: Large Lava Flows Join a field trip to Isle Royale National Park, May 25-31, 2013; Middle Proterozoic Continental Theoleiitic Flood Basalts of the...
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Institute on Lake Superior Geology
The 59th Annual Meeting of the Institute on Lake Superior Geology will be hosted by the Seaman Mineral Museum at Michigan Tech May 8 to May 11, 2013; Technical Sessions will be at the Franklin Square...
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Blankenbicker writes a science education blog called SciEd
Adam Blankenbicker, a Peace Corps Master’s International alumnus in geology, writes a science education blog called SciEd for the Public Library of Science (PLoS) web site. See SciEd Blog. Adam is an...
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Midwest to The Mideast: Nathan Sankary’s Blog
Nathan Sankary, who graduated in geology from Michigan Tech earlier this year, is doing Master’s degree work in Israel this year at the Israel Institute of Technology studying Environmental...
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Michigan Tech Students Win First Place in National Mining Competition
The National Mining Competition announced the three winners from the 2013 event. First place Michigan Tech, second place University of British Columbia, and third place Edwards School of Business. The...
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Landslide monitoring, social research protect San Vicente in El Salvador
Soil around San Vicente volcano in El Salvador has always been rich, leading farmers to plant coffee, beans and sugar cane on its slopes. In times of heavy rain, the loose soil and volcanic rock on the...
View ArticlePeace Corps Master’s Student Tackles Water, Waste, Volcanoes, Earthquakes in...
To the people of Peña Blanca, Panama, Chet Hopp must seem like a godsend. He’s helping them get cleaner water, improve sanitation and understand their local volcanic hazards. “I’m an environmental...
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Former Peace Corps Volunteer and Geoscientist Welcomed as New Geoscience...
Alexandria, VA – The American Geosciences Institute (AGI) and Schlumberger welcome former Peace Corps volunteer and geoscientist, Stephanie Tubman as the AGI/Schlumberger Geoscience Communication...
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Keweenaw Geoheritage–Tours by Water and Land
Michigan’s Keweenaw Peninsula is known as a place of natural beauty with a fascinating mining history. Join local expert Bill Rose to learn how to read this landscape and how it came to be the way it...
View ArticleMichigan Tech Alumnus Tackles Graduate School in Israel
Many Michigan Technological University students at this moment are trying to decide what to do after graduation, and a common question is: graduate school or a job? But, Nathan Sankary, who graduated...
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Bornhorst Teaches Last Field Course
Dr. Ted Bornhorst has taught Summer Field Geology at Michigan Tech for 31 years. This will be his last year and so we provide a photo gallery of the last field geology exam which was followed by a nice...
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Michigan Tech leads groups on geoheritage tour along the Keweenaw Fault
Michigan Tech research professor Bill Rose is leading the group and said without the Keweenaw Fault, we wouldn’t have so many waterfalls, rock formations, or the once-booming copper mining industry....
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Summer 2014 GSG Softball Champions
Congratulations to the geo/mining department’s softball team! They took home the traveling trophy by defeating the forestry department in the graduate student government’s (GSG) summer 2014 softball...
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