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2009

Spotlight: Donieka Walker
Michigan Tech, November 19, 2009

Family Outdoor Adventures Weekend (Chadde)
Tech Today, November 12, 2009

Joan Chadde and Lloyd Wescoat of the Center for Science and Environmental Outreach attended the annual conference of the Michigan Alliance for Environmental and Outdoor Education Oct. 8-10 at the University of Michigan-Dearborn. Chadde contributed two presentations and one teacher workshop. Chadde also attended the Midwest Environmental Education Conference, hosted by the Environmental Education Association of Illinois at the University of Illinois Champaign-Urbana, Oct. 15-17. Chadde contributed one presentation.
Tech Today, October 28, 2009

Global Watershed GK12 Fellowships: Diving Deep into Water Topics with Middle School Teachers, Students (Baltensperger, Oppliger)
Tech Today, October 12, 2009

Alex Mayer (GMES), Linda Nagel (Forestry), Nancy Auer (Biological Sciences), Bradley Baltensperger (Cognitive and Learning Sciences) have received $2,499,351 from the National Science Foundation for a three-year project, "New GK12 GlobalWatershed: Integrating Rural and Global Perspectives with Research and Technological Advances."
Tech Today, September 28, 2009

William Kennedy, director of the Center for Teaching, Learning, and Faculty Development, presented a session, "Encouraging Engagement Through Planned Dialogue," Thursday, Sept. 24, at the Lilly North Conference on College and University Teaching in Traverse City.
Tech Today, September 25, 2009

Family Adventure Day to offer hikes in nature sanctuaries Sept. 26 (Chadde)
Keweenaw Now, September 23, 2009

MTU awarded nearly $4.2 million (GK12 GlobalWatershed Baltensperger)
Mining Gazette, September 19, 2009

Women’s tennis team shake-up (Psychology major Nathalia Rondelli)
Michigan Tech Lode, September 17, 2009

Proposal in Progress (Baltensperger)
Tech Today, August 27, 2009

Native Plant Society to hold botanical visit to Keweenaw Shore Nature Sanctuary Aug. 22 (Chadde)
Keweenaw Now, August 19, 2009

Lake Superior 101 (Chadde)
Mining Gazette, August 13, 2009

Joan Chadde, coordinator of K-12 education programs for the Center for Science and Environmental Outreach at Michigan Tech, compiled the guidebook "Walking Paths and Protected Areas of the Keweenaw," published by the Michigan Nature Association.
Tech Today, August 7, 2009

Teachers Teach Teachers
Tech Today, July 21, 2009

Family Engineering Night Set (Chadde)
Tech Today, July 20, 2009

Board Gives Final Approval
The Board of Control granted final approval to a new PhD degree program in Applied Cognitive Science and Human Factors.
Tech Today, July 17, 2009

Board of Control approves degrees
Mining Gazette, July 17, 2009

Free Scientific Excursion Aboard the Agassiz at Strawberry Festival Saturday (Chadde)
Tech Today, July 10, 2009

Agassiz research vessel to offer free scientific excursions during Strawberry Fest July 11 (Chadde)
Keweenaw Now, July 9, 2009

CCISD teaches service (Amato-Henderson)
Mining Gazette, June 16, 2009

Proposals in Progress (Helton, Baltensperger, Brill)
Tech Today, June 22, 2009

Teaching the Teachers: Grand Rapids Science Teachers Converge on Tech (MiTEP)
Tech Today, June 18, 2009

How Are We Doing? Assessing Gen Ed Ten Years After
Tech Today, June 16, 2009

Michigan Tech Receives Stimulus Money for Teacher Education Program (Baltensperger, Stockero)
Tech Today, June 5, 2009

Proposals in Progress (Brill)
Tech Today, June 2, 2009

Tech realigns programs, support services
Mining Gazette, May 30, 2009

Michigan Tech Realigns Student Affairs to Support Diversity Initiatives
Tech Today, May 29, 2009

Proposals in Progress (Baltensperger, Stockero, Amato-Henderson, Helton, Hungwe)
Tech Today, May 19, 2009

Proposals in Progress (Baltensperger)
Tech Today, May 6, 2009

Board of Control Approves New Degrees
One of the seven new degree program proposals approved to advance to the State Academic Affairs Office is a Master of Science and PhD in Applied Cognitive Science and Human Factors.
Tech Today, May 4, 2009

New majors approved at Tech
Mining Gazette, May 2, 2009

The Vice President for Research has announced this year's recipients of the Research Excellence Fund Awards, which total $407,872 among 22 people. Shari Stockero (Cognitive and Learning Sciences and Mathematical Sciences), received a Research Seed Award for "Pivotal Moments in Beginning Mathematics Teachers' Practice," $12,674.
Tech Today, May 1, 2009

"Where Do the Children Play?" Documentary Screening Cosponsored by Michigan Tech (Chadde)
Tech Today, April 29, 2009

"Where Do the Children Play?" film, discussion to be at Portage Library May 4 (Chadde)
Keweenaw Now, April 28, 2009

William S. "Deak" Helton, associate professor of cognitive and learning sciences, is publishing a book called "Canine Ergonomics: The Science of Working Dogs," which addresses working dogs from a scientific perspective, drawing together related research from different fields into an interdisciplinary resource of science-based information. It can be ordered from Amazon.com.
Tech Today, April 28, 2009

NSF Awards $4 Million to Michigan Tech to Build Earth Science Teaching Model in Grand Rapids (Baltensperger, Hungwe)
Tech Today, April 24, 2009

2009 Summer Undergraduate Research Fellow
James Pouliot (Cognitive and Learning Sciences), "Altruism and Materialism as Predictors of Educational Options in the Engineering Major," with Associate Professor Susan Amato-Henderson
Tech Today, April 8, 2009

Fun with science (Chadde)
Mining Gazette, April 6, 2009

Fuel from the forest (Chadde)
Mining Gazette, March 28, 2009

Tech Exposes High School Students to Future Fuels (Chadde)
Tech Today, March 18, 2009

Young Scientists to Showcase Work at Science Fair (Oppliger, Chadde)
Tech Today, March 17, 2009

Kids turn green with energy (Chadde)
Mining Gazette, March 17, 2009

Learn about Renewable Green Energy (Chadde)
Tech Today, March 11, 2009

Michigan Tech Remains the Top Peace Corps School
Tech Today, March 6, 2009

Joan Chadde, education program coordinator for the Center for Science and Environmental Outreach and education program coordinator for the Western Upper Peninsula Center for Science, Mathematics and Environmental Education, received $10,000 in the Public Outreach category from the Michigan Space Grant Consortium.
Tech Today, March 6, 2009

Reception at Carnegie Museum (Hungwe)
Michigan Tech Lode, February 17, 2009

Proposals in Progress (Baltensperger, Chadde)
Tech Today, February 9, 2009

NSF Ethics Education in Science and Engineering Grant (Amato-Henderson)
Tech Today, February 9, 2009

Rehki classrooms make tech advancements (Kennedy, Amato-Henderson)
Michigan Tech Lode, February 5, 2009

Learn How to Go Green at Home and Elsewhere: Presentation Wednesday (Chadde)
Tech Today, February 3, 2009

Proposals in Progress (Brill)
Tech Today, February 2, 2009

H-PT schools not privatizing bus services (Baltensperger)
Mining Gazette, January 20, 2009

Faculty Scholarship Grants Awarded (Amato-Henderson)
Tech Today, January 19, 2009

Chadde Named President of MAEOE
Tech Today, January 6, 2009

2008

MITEP: Bringing Knowledge to Middle Schools in Michigan (Baltensperger, Hungwe)
Tech Today, December 17, 2008

Assistant Professor Jason Carter (ESHPE), graduate student John Durocher (Biological Sciences) and Associate Professor Rosalie Kern (Cognitive and Learning Sciences) published a paper, "Neural and Cardiovascular Responses to Emotional Stress in Humans," in the American Journal of Physiology: Regulatory, Integrative and Comparative Physiology, volume 295, issue 6, 2008.
Tech Today, December 11, 2008

Proposals in Progress (Helton, Brill)
Tech Today, December 4, 2008

Students and Panelists Focus on More-Usable Everything (Jenna Dahlstrom)
Tech Today, November 17, 2008

CLS Hosting Educators Cafe at YES! Expo
Tech Today, November 3, 2008

Assistant Professor Chris Brill presented a paper, "Effects of Secondary Loading Task Modality on Attentional Reserve Capacity," on Sept. 24 at the annual meeting of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, held in New York.
Tech Today, October 22, 2008

"Clearly Marked" Today in McArdle Theatre
Tech Today, October 16, 2008

Associate Professor William "Deak" Helton (Cognitive and Learning Sciences) presented three papers at the annual meeting of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, held Sept. 23, 24 and 25 in New York, "Human Judgments of Stress State in Performance Settings," "Performance on a Sustained Attention to Response Task" and "Relationships between Caffeine Consumption, Cognitive Slips-Failures, Daily Stress and Sleep," and he also chaired the session "Individual Differences in Performance Under Stress."
Tech Today, October 1, 2008

State Authorizes $25 Million for Great Lakes Research Lab at Michigan Tech (Chadde)
Tech Today, September 8, 2008

Presentation Oct. 8 on Global Perspectives Service-Learning Program (Baltensperger)
Tech Today, September 29, 2008

State Recognizes Teacher Education Program
Tech Today, September 25, 2008

William Rose (GMES), Bradley Baltensperger (CLS), Jacqueline Huntoon (Graduate School), Chris Anderson (Office for Institutional Diversity), Kedmon Hungwe (CLS) and Christopher Wojick (CEE), "Michigan Teacher Excellence Program (MITEP): A Model for Improving Earth Science Education Nationwide," NSF was awarded $1,337,520.00. The project begins January 1, 2009.
September 19, 2008

Proposals in Progress (Baltensperger, Hungwe)
Tech Today, August 25, 2008

Proposals in Progress (Baltensperger)
Tech Today, August 22, 2008

Houghton-PT hires new teachers (Baltensperger)
Daily Mining Gazette, August 19, 2008

William Kennedy (Center for Teaching, Learning, and Faculty Development) presented a paper on Aug. 10 at the MERLOT 2008 Conference (Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching) entitled "The Constructive Alignment of Educational Technology and Cognitive Neuroscience."
Tech Today, August 12, 2008

Isle Royale National Park Wolf-Moose Research Celebration
Nearly 100 teachers from Michigan, Wisconsin, Illinois, Minnesota and New York have participated in summer workshops on Isle Royale, sponsored by the Isle Royale Institute at Michigan Tech.
Tech Today, July 24, 2008

H-PT board reorganizes (Baltensperger)
Daily Mining Gazette, July 22, 2008

Proposals in Progress (Amato-Henderson, Hungwe)
Tech Today, July 21, 2008

Proposals in Progress (Amato-Henderson, Baltensperger, Helton)
Tech Today, July 17, 2008

Yu Cai (School of Technology) has received $144,554 from the National Science Foundation for a two-year project, "CPATH CDP: Integrating Sustainability into Undergraduate Computing Education."
Tech Today, July 14, 2008

In its June 26 issue, Geospatial Solutions, a publication for emerging intelligence about GIS and related spatial technologies, featured a paper authored by Assistant Professor Eugene Levin, Assistant Professor Robert Liimakka (School of Technology), Assistant Professor William Helton (Cognitive and Learning Sciences) and Senior Lecturer Gennady Gienko (University of the South Pacific), "Analyzing Eye Movement During Geospatial Data Inspection".
Tech Today, June 30, 2008

Michigan Tech Ranks #1 in Peace Corps Master's Degree Programs
Tech Today, June 24, 2008

Michigan Tech CLS Newsletter 2008

A newsletter about psychology and teacher education

Houghton board OKs 2008 budget (Baltensperger)
Daily Mining Gazette, June 17, 2008

Psych Major Mark Panasiewicz Interviewed
Daily Mining Gazette, June 17, 2008

Assistant Professor Chris Brill (Cognitive and Learning Sciences) presented a paper, "Case Studies in the Science and Applications of Tactile Displays," on May 15 at the Conference on the Science and Applications of Perception Psychology, held in Cincinnati, Ohio.
Tech Today, June 4, 2008

Assistant Professor Chris Brill (Cognitive and Learning Sciences) presented a paper, "Validating a Multi-modal Secondary Loading Task: Detection Sensitivity and Reserve Capacity," on May 2 at the annual meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association, held in Chicago.
Tech Today, May 22, 2008

Director William Kennedy (CTLFD) presented a session, "Insights From Cognitive Neuroscience: Science-driven Pedagogy," on May 19 at the Conference on Teaching, Learning and Civic Engagement at Central Michigan University, in Mt. Pleasant.
Tech Today, May 20, 2008

H-PT board OKs bond proposal (Baltensperger)
Daily Mining Gazette, May 20, 2008

Proposals in Progress (Baltensperger, Hungwe)
Tech Today, May 14, 2008

Proposals in Progress (Helton)
Tech Today, May 12, 2008

Associate Professor William "Deak" S. Helton (Cognitive and Learning Sciences) presented two papers, "Evidence of Phase Transitions in Canine Skill Development" and "Judgments of Stress State," on May 2 at the annual meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association, held in Chicago.
Tech Today, May 12, 2008

Voters give go-ahead (Baltensperger)
Daily Mining Gazette, May 7, 2008

Psych Graduate Gabe Harris Interviewed
Daily Mining Gazette, May 5, 2008

Tuesday is Election Day (Baltensperger)
Daily Mining Gazette, May 2, 2008

CLS Contributes to Campus Growth
Tech Today, February 29, 2008

$200K grant funds Lake Superior education (Chadde)
Daily Mining Gazette, February 29, 2008

Proposals in Progress (Stockero, Henderson, Hungwe, Baltensperger)
Tech Today, February 19, 2008

High School Enterprise a Copycat Program (Baltensperger)
Tech Today, February 12, 2008

Educators, legislators discuss state of local schools (Baltensperger)
Daily Mining Gazette, February 5, 2008

Proposals in Progress (Hungwe, Helton)
Tech Today, January 17, 2008

CISD evaluates 2007, sets goals for 2008 (Oppliger)
Daily Mining Gazette, January 5, 2008

2007

Community Leaders Sound Off (Baltensperger)
Daily Mining Gazette, December 12, 2007

Proposals in Progress (Helton)
Tech Today, November 1, 2007

Army ROTC Finishes First in Ranger Challenge Midwest Regional (Mike Panek)
Tech Today, October 24, 2007

Proposals in Progress (Baltensperger, Helton)
Tech Today, October 23, 2007

New Faculty: J. Christopher Brill
Tech Today, October 20, 2007

Assistant Professor William S. Helton (Cognitive and Learning Sciences) presented three papers at the annual Human Factors and Ergonomics Society meeting held in Baltimore Oct. 2-5.
Tech Today, October 18, 2007

Teaching at Tech: Two great teaching resources
Online Lode, October 17, 2007

On the Road (Brill)
Tech Today, October 12, 2007

Michigan Tech Notables (Nicole Lopez)
Tech Today, October 1, 2007

Update on Gen Ed Responsibilities (Baltensperger)
Tech Today, September 5, 2007

Proposals in Progress (Chadde, Baltensperger)
Tech Today, August 6, 2007

New Funding (Chadde)
Tech Today, July 6, 2007

William Helton (Psychology) has received $467,017 from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research for "A Collaborative Laboratory for Human-Robot Interaction at Michigan Technological University."
Tech Today, June 27, 2007

Kennedy Presents at National Teaching Professor Convention
Tech Today, May 26, 2007

Board Approves a Request by the Department of Education to Change its Name to Department of Cognitive and Learning Sciences
Tech Today, May 9, 2007

Helton Presents Paper at the Annual Meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association
Tech Today, May 9, 2007

Psychology Program Helping to Attract Students
Daily Mining Gazette , May 5, 2007

Kennedy Presents Conference Session at the 17th Annual Equity in the Classroom Conference
Tech Today, March 30, 2007

Assistant Professor Deak Helton Receives DOD Grant for Human-Robot Interaction Lab
Tech Today, March 29, 2007