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HOUGHTON — Richard J. Koubek will lead the University as its 10th president, the Michigan Technological University Board of Trustees announced. Koubek, currently executive vice president and provost of Louisiana …
HOUGHTON — Two and a half billion. That’s approximately the number of times the human heart beats in 70 years. And sometimes during the course of its unrelenting contractions and …
HOUGHTON — Although tobacco use is the leading cause of avoidable death globally, farming tobacco continues to provide the primary source of income to many farmers. But two Michigan Technological …
HOUGHTON — Near-infrared cyanine dyes are go-to tools for studying the inner workings of cells and investigating the biochemistry of disease, including cancer. But even though they have low toxicity …
HOUGHTON — Mercury is a widespread pollutant that travels up the food chain onto people’s dinner plates. Although a global issue, mercury regulations vary worldwide. Depending on where one lives …
LANSING — Michigan Technological University’s Guy Meadows provided details on the progress of a proposal for an independent risk analysis of oil pipelines at the bottom of the Straits of …
HOUGHTON — Researchers at Michigan Technological University and two other institutions are using tiny zircons — a mineral sometimes used as a gemstone — buried in Antarctic rocks to trace …
HOUGHTON — Metamaterials offer the very real possibility that our most far-fetched fancies could one day become real as rocks. From invisibility cloaks and perfect lenses to immensely powerful batteries, …
HOUGHTON — Michigan Technological University’s Board of Trustees Friday approved a five-year state capital outlay plan and capital project request that includes a new engineering and health technologies building and …
HOUGHTON — Albert Einstein proposed his general theory of relativity in 1916, predicting the existence of gravitational waves, which are often called “ripples” in the space-time continuum. Gravitational waves are …