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Michigan Tech Wins Great Lakes Invitational

Michigan Tech goalie Phoenix Copley notched his second straight shutout as Michigan Tech beat Western Michigan 4-0 Sunday in the championship game of the Great Lakes Invitational.

97.1 The Ticket–2012/12/31

A view of Houghton, including the Michigan Technological University campus, from Hancock. Matt Roush photo.

Michigan Tech Adding Supply Chain Degree

Michigan Technological University will add a new bachelor of science in management degree with a concentration in supply chain and operations management.

WWJ Newsradio 950–2012/12/16

Michigan Tech Air Force Cadet Jacob LaSarge, center, accepts the 2012 Cadet Research Award from Assistant Secretary of the Air Force David Walker. (credit: mtu.edu)

Michigan Tech Student Wins Air Force Cadet Award

A student at Michigan Technological University in Houghton has received the U.S. Air Force Cadet Research Award, given annually to one cadet in the nation.

WWJ Newsradio 950–2012/10/31

Michigan Tech's Blizzard T. Husky welcomes students to Tech's Houghton campus, Michigan Tech photo.

MTU Enrollment Features More Women Engineers

HOUGHTON — Michigan Technological University Thursday reported that the total number of students on campus this fall is 6,945, including 1,410 new undergraduates, both first-year and transfer students. That’s down from 7,031 a year ago. […]

WWJ Newsradio 950–2012/09/17

Hot Rods, Cool Technology: Michigan Tech and the Green Racing Initiative

When you think of environmentally friendly sports, auto racing probably doesn’t spring immediately to mind. But the Green Racing Initiative aims to change that.

WWJ Newsradio 950–2012/07/11

Michigan Tech Sets 3.9 Percent Tuition Hike

At a special meeting Thursday, Michigan Technological University’s Board of Control approved a general fund budget of $165.5 million for fiscal year 2013, which starts this July 1. Included was a 3.9 percent tuition increase for Michigan resident undergraduates, less than the state’s 4 percent cap.

WWJ Newsradio 950–2012/06/21

Michigan Tech Solves Mystery Of Missing Isle Royale Wolves

During their 2012 Winter Study, Michigan Technological University population biologist John Vucetich and wildlife ecologist Rolf Peterson started wondering where the wolves of Isle Royale National Park had gone. Now they know — for at least three of them.

WWJ Newsradio 950–2012/06/18

Michigan Tech's 2012 steel bridge competition team. Photo: Michigan Tech

Two Firsts, Fourth Overall For Michigan Tech Steel Bridge Team

Michigan Technological University’s Steel Bridge team brought home two first places and placed fourth overall in the National Student Steel Bridge Competition competition at Clemson University May 25-26.

WWJ Newsradio 950–2012/06/12

An aerial view of the Michigan Technological University campus in Houghton. (Michigan Tech photo.)

Wineman Technology Donation to Michigan Tech Furthers Hybrid Vehicle Development

Wineman Technology, an automotive design and test system integrator, announced an $80,000 software donation to the hybrid electric vehicle engineering program at Michigan Technological University, a public research university in Houghton.

WWJ Newsradio 950–2012/06/07

Members of the foot team, left to right, are Stephanie Bass, Victoria Demers, Marcel Kerkove, Allison Lebovsky, Paul Sturmer and Robert Strobe (Photo: Michigan Tech)

Michigan Tech Students Take Prosthetic Designs To India

Two teams of undergraduate engineering students at Michigan Technological University have developed two low-cost, workable prostheses — one a knee, one a foot — and brought them to India, the first step in an effort to make them available to that nation’s many poor.

WWJ Newsradio 950–2012/05/01

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