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Michigan Tech’s annual Graduate Student Research Colloquium sponsored by the Graduate Student Government will take place Wednesday and Thursday, February 15-16 in the Memorial Union Ballroom. Forty-nine graduate students will give oral and poster presentations about their research. Thirty faculty members and postdoctoral fellows have volunteered to serve as judges. …

The buildings that make up Calumet’s historic downtown district are magnificent, but no one argues that it will take a monumental effort to restore some of the more dilapidated ones to any useful purpose. A grant from the Michigan State Housing Development Authority could be the start of that effort. …

Graduate students from Michigan Tech will be presenting the fruit of their labor at the Graduate Research Colloquium. Co-organizer Tyler Capek says it’s the biggest event of the year, put on by the Graduate Student Government. Research topics range from treatments for the Zika virus to improving wind turbines. The …

For the 12th year, Finlandia University will once again be sending a group of students and faculty to Tanzania. Director of Servant Leadership René Johnson says the trip is mainly about establishing relationships. First year Finlandia student Zuleiki Whyte is looking forward to going on the trip. To help raise …

It’s time to start thinking ahead to Pastyfest. A planning meeting for Pastyfest 2017 will be held Monday, February 13th at 6pm at the Miners and Merchants Building Conference Room in Calumet. Organizers say the plan is to hold the event on 5th Street again this year but hope to make …

A downstate man is dead after a snowmobile accident in Houghton County. The sheriff’s office responded to the accident shortly after 3:30am Friday on Trail #3, north of Trail #121 in Adams Township. A snowmobile driven by a 57-year-old Rochester Hills, MI man was traveling southbound on Trail #3 when …

One of the biggest draws to Michigan Tech’s Winter Carnival are the snow statues. This year’s theme is “Snow Cascades Across The Decades”, with statues featuring snapshots of life at different points of history. The judges selected the top three in each division in the month-long statue contest—Men, Women and …

Calumet, MICH. – Calumet will take a big step forward in its neighborhood conservation and renewal strategy using a $33,000 housing development fund grant from the Michigan State Housing Development Authority. “This money will be used to stabilize a significant building in Calumet’s national historic landmark district,” said Brain Mills, …

Another arrest has been made in connection to a drug bust in Houghton County. Earlier this week, 24-year old Charles Lester Knuckles was arrested at a residence in South Range after UPSET Detectives executed a search warrant which led to the seizure of prescription pills, suspected heroin and crystal meth. …

Judging was held this morning for the Michigan Tech Winter Carnival Statue Competition. This year, there were three division for the Month-Long Statues — Men, Women and Co-Ed. The top three were selected in each division while the top three scores among all divisions were placed into the “Overall Month-Long” …