MTU Research

From our trading room to the New York Stock Exchange, Elijah Joseph is stacking the research skills he needs for career success: mtu.edu/stories/2025/1…

Advanced genomic sequencing capabilities for the Keweenaw & beyond are right here at #MichiganTech. Visit our lab via Michigan Tech Unscripted: mtu.news/gWWJ50X8uyb

Michigan Tech is proud to announce we've been endorsed by the Advanced Robotics for Manufacturing (ARM) Institute, a leading collaborative in robotics and workforce innovation aiming to strengthen the U.S. industrial base. Learn more: mtu.news/A2zF50WY9Zl @ARM_Robotics

#MichiganTech geneticist Kristin Brzeski and Princeton evolutionary biologist Bridgett vonHoldt are working with the Karankawa people, International Wolf Center and others to improve resilience of American red wolves near the Gulf Coast. 📸:Tristan Spinski mtu.news/ONlW50WXbzB

As Michigan’s only R1 institution in a remote setting, Michigan Tech offers a unique student perspective. With over $100 million in research investments in the last two years, students are tackling challenges in national defense, human health and more: mtu.news/ewAh50WT8oK

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

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: @michigantech. Read more: bit.ly/45qhzSc

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

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. @michigantech automationalley.com/articles/pavin…

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

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

@MarineScholars @michigantech Way to go, William!

This #NationalRoboticsWeek, we're spotlighting #MarineScholar William, a robotics engineering major at @MichiganTech! As Mechanical lead of the Open Source Hardware Enterprise Program, he helped develop the Recyclebot, which turns used plastic into materials used for 3D printing!

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

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: #GreatLakesResearch" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">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

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

Michigan's URC is expanding to include Michigan Technological University, our state’s newest R1 designated university! @michigantech joins @michiganstateu, @UMich & @waynestate, 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