Michigan Tech is an R1 research institution! 🎉🔬 The Carnegie Classification places Tech among the nation’s top research universities—one of just 187 R1 institutions in 2025. This milestone reflects the innovation of our students, faculty and staff. mtu.news/zESA50UYWIG

Happy #NationalEngineersWeek! This week, more than ever, we are celebrating our Husky engineers. From our first-year students to our expert faculty and alumni, Michigan Tech engineers create a sustainable and prosperous world! Tell us what you love about being an engineer!

Explore the latest engineering solutions to reduce antibiotic resistance in #TheBridge. Ishi Keenum, Michigan Tech, highlights key challenges in waste management systems and the crucial role of #engineering in combating this global issue. Read here: ow.ly/PzRB50V5GCW

📱 #TechThursday : The future of farming is blooming at Michigan Tech! Our Governing Member's researchers are developing an AI-powered robotic fleet to revolutionize lavender harvesting in Michigan. Read more here: mtu.edu/mechanical-aer… #AgTech #Robotics #Innovation

“My Fulbright experience at Michigan Tech helped me craft a new vision that will direct the rest of my days!” - Bester Mangisoni, Senior Software Developer at MRA. Applications for the Fulbright Foreign Student Program are still open! To apply, visit mw.usembassy.gov/education/fulb…

With multiple robotics courses now being offered and a new robotics lab slated to open this year, Michigan Technological University's College of Computing is introducing Balto the robot dog to the campus community. Michigan Tech #robotics

Michigan's URC is expanding to include Michigan Technological University, our state’s newest R1 designated university! Michigan Tech joins MSU, University of Michigan & Wayne State University, marking the first addition to the URC since its formation. Learn more at bit.ly/4iodSj5.

Michigan Tech is now part of the University Research Corridor! 🚀 We’re joining MSU, U-M and Wayne State as the first new URC member since 2006, strengthening Michigan’s position as a leader in research, innovation and economic growth. mtu.news/1WKU50VafCg

Time is not the driving influence of forest carbon storage, according to a new study based at the University of Michigan Biological Station. The research led by Michigan Tech's Luke Nave involved more than 100 scientists over many decades & leverages historic UM Biological Station data. myumi.ch/VVP63

Music connects us across time and place—but where it’s performed can be just as powerful. MTU associate professor Joel Neves honored his Hawaiian ancestors by conducting his tone poem Kalaupapa with the University of Hawaiʻi Symphony Orchestra. mtu.news/b1fw50VpIKT

Hayden Henderson, Senior Research Engineer here at the GLRC, gave an interview to Great Lakes Now about the importance of mapping lakebeds and the cutting-edge technologies used on this project! Watch here: loom.ly/cyq0aOA#GreatL… #MichiganTech #lakebedmapping

📢 Publication Alert! 🎉 Ph.D. student Oluwatosin Ayo & Dr. Jae Sung Kim analyze lava flow paths in Ethiopia’s Afar region using remote sensing & geomorphology! 🌋🛰️ 🔗 Read more: doi.org/10.1117/1.JRS.… #MichiganTech #CEGE #RemoteSensing #Volcanology #Research

How can melting snow affect global climate regulation? Visit a local snow field site with assistant professor Alden Adolph and her team of undergraduate student researchers in Michigan Tech’s latest Unscripted Research Blog: mtu.news/UrPQ50VtvkK

TIME's new cover: The dire wolf is back after over 10,000 years. Here's what that means for other extinct species ti.me/4jlJB54

Kristin Brzeski, MTU researcher and assistant professor, is featured in the latest TIME cover story for her role in finding red wolf “ghost alleles”—a breakthrough that helped create the world’s first Ghost Wolf and could save a species on the brink. 🗞️: mtu.news/jeBq50VwJ5w

Think this is a starfish? Look again—it’s a snowflake captured with a scanning electron microscope in Tech’s Applied Chemical and Morphological Analysis Laboratory (ACMAL). ❄️ Learn more about the ACMAL's equipment used to capture this image. 👇mtu.news/OTvM50VuLvm

Michigan Tech researchers are revolutionizing energy-efficient transportation by combining real-world testing and digital simulations of connected and autonomous vehicles at the American Center for Mobility. Michigan Tech automationalley.com/articles/pavin…

Approximately 320 miles north of the Arctic Circle Michigan Tech researchers were collecting cold-loving bacteria that has potential to help control ice melt in the future. 🧊 Read more about the DARPA ICE Project in the latest Unscripted Research Blog: mtu.news/nMaK50VGwlL

The University Research Corridor has rebranded as Research Universities for Michigan (RU4M) — a move that reflects our evolving mission, growing impact across the state, and the addition of our newest member: Michigan Tech. Read more: bit.ly/45qhzSc

Congratulations to the 2025 Bhakta Rath Research Award recipients, Miraj B. Kayastha and his faculty advisor, Pengfei Xue! Kayastha and Xue discuss their advanced regional Earth system models with MTU News: mtu.news/yR6x50Wg3p6