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October 6, 2026 | Tahera Salman Almugabgab and Ian Withington · On Sep. 26, Michigan Tech’s most powerful liquid rocket was fired. The rocket was built by the Keweenaw Propulsion Lab (KPL): the largest of five subgroups of the Aeronautics and Rocketry Enterprise (AERE). It was designed for 250 pounds of force at peak for a five-second burn duration.
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October 6, 2026 | Maria Anthony and John Jernigan · Founded in 2014, Women in Physics (WiP) is a student-run organization committed to inspiring all students to actively participate in the academic community. One event the group has hosted recently is a three-part workshop about LaTeX, a software system for typesetting documents. It is most typically used to
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October 6, 2026 | Jonathan Holland · From Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) to “happy lights” and the Tech Trails, winter at Michigan Tech raises questions about mental health and a larger one of how people should relate to the natural world. As winter approaches, spending more time indoors can become increasingly tempting. For some students, changes in the
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October 6, 2026 | Keagan Turovich and Rowland Ball · Employers this fall primarily looked for backgrounds in engineering, computing, and business. “More than 70 percent of registered employers are recruiting civil, environmental, and geospatial engineering students, while more than 60 percent are seeking mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, comput
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October 6, 2026 | Jacob Marwood Barr · In previous years, the dining hall at DHH has remained identical to those in McNair and Wadsworth Hall with a buffet-style dining experience. Announced at the end of the last academic year, DHH’s dining space now features a system based exclusively on customizable pick-up orders.
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October 6, 2026 | Baden Webster · The Undergraduate Student Government (USG) met for its weekly meeting on Wednesday, Sep. 30 at 7 p.m. The meeting was dominated by discussion of an AI program that may be implemented into the course registration process; the body also approved a couple of funding requests and swore in several new members. Members of USG atte
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October 6, 2026 | Trevin Sulentich · The Michigan Tech Board of Trustees, the highest level of governance at MTU, held their fourth official meeting of 2026 on Friday, Oct. 2, in MUB Ballroom B. A wide variety of faculty and staff were present along with a few students. Many significant university leaders were there to present their reports to the board.
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October 6, 2026 | Chloe Hart · Several organizations in the Houghton and Hancock area hosted a new fall festival this past weekend, the Canal Colors Festival. This festival boasted a mash-up of events across the city to celebrate the season. The main event was the Plaidurday photo where over 1,000 people came together in their flannels to try to break world
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October 6, 2026 | Braden Thibault · On Friday, Oct. 2, the Houghton High School hosted Plaidurday, the worldwide celebration of the plaid pattern, as a part of the Canal Colors Festival. Every year since Oct. 2023, Houghton has joined in this celebration by gathering as many people wearing the pattern into one spot for a photo that attempts to break the
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October 6, 2026 | Allison Lindstrom · Hannah Layne took a trip back to Michigan Tech's campus on Friday, Oct. 2. At the Library she had a book signing for her popular Lift Bridge Series. The series follows main characters Kara Linden and Blaze McKade as they go through personal problems, college life, and a passionate romance. Layne graduated from Michigan T
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