Michigan Technological University

Michigan Tech Studies Wolf-Dog Encounters In Bear Hunting

Bear hunters will tell you that a good way to attract a bear is to put out bait. And in 10 states, including Michigan and Wisconsin, that’s perfectly legal. Hunting dogs are another useful technique in the bear-hunter’s toolkit, and 17 states say that’s just fine.

WWJ Newsradio 950–2013/04/18

Biomass-burning cookstoves cause poor air quality, health hazards in many countries around the world. Michigan Tech photo.

Two Michigan Tech Teams Take Sustainable Designs to Washington, DC

Two interdisciplinary teams from Michigan Technological University are competing in the EPA’s annual Sustainable Design Expo — one to improve the world’s air by improving biomass cookstoves, the other to improve treatment of potentially deadly aluminum processing waste.

WWJ Newsradio 950–2013/04/16

Residents of the International Space Station had a unique perspective when a Russian Soyuz rocket carrying three new space station crewmembers blasted off within eye shot of the orbiting outpost as it started its journey to the station. / CANADIAN SPACE AGENCY/CHRIS HADFIELD

Matt’s Favorites: Michigan Connection To Lake Erie Study, Rocket Launch From Space, Summer iPhone, And Much More

What else is new, exciting, fun, troubling and a bunch of other adjectives in the wonderful world of high tech? Here’s the latest fun…

WWJ Newsradio 950–2013/04/02

An open-source 3D printer printing an optical component, specifically, a filter bracket. Michigan Technological University photo.

MTU Prof’s 3D Printing Designs Slash Optics Lab Costs

Just as open-source design has driven down the cost of software to the point that it is accessible to anyone with an Internet connection, open-source designs and 3D printing are driving down the cost of making scientific equipment.

WWJ Newsradio 950–2013/04/01

Isle Royale Wolf Population At Risk: Michigan Tech Study

No pups were apparently born to the wolf population on Isle Royale National Park in Lake Superior in 2012, according to researchers at Michigan Technological University, which has been studying the interaction between the island park’s wolves and moose for 55 years. Since wolves live only about five years in the wild, that means the island’s wolf population may soon be gone.

WWJ Newsradio 950–2013/03/26

a) shadow behind metal cylinder under plane wave illumination; b) front reconstruction after passing cylinder cloaked by thin multilayer dielectric; c) total scattering cross width for cloaked & bare cylinders. (b) & (c) demonstrate the cloaking effect. Michigan Tech photo.

Invisibility Cloak Research Moves Forward at Michigan Tech

Michigan Technological University’s invisibility cloak researchers have done it again. They’ve moved the bar on one of the holy grails of physics: making objects invisible.

WWJ Newsradio 950–2013/03/26

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

Researchers Invited To Learn Essentials of Entrepreneurship

In an effort to help researchers fast-track their technologies to the marketplace, Michigan is launching a new entrepreneurial training program called Michigan I-Corps. Applications for the program, administered by the University of Michigan, opened last week. Michigan I-Corps is modeled after the National Science Foundation’s I-Corps (Innovation Corps) program. Two teams from Michigan Technological University have participated in the national I-Corps.

WWJ Newsradio 950–2013/03/21