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April 2008 Archives
April 4, 2008
Mine Design, Operations & Closure Conference
The Mine Waste Technology Department will be hosting the 6th Annual
Mine Design and Closure Conference April 20-24 at Fairmont Hot Springs
Resort. Please click here
for registration information. Reminder, that Montana Tech students
and faculty will be given a half price discount.
Guest Speaker
Gary Seifert, Senior Program Manager at the Idaho National Laboratory,
will give a talk tonight titled “The Answer is in the Wind,
an Overview of Wind Energy.” The talk will take place at 6:30
p.m. in MG 204. For an abstract of the talk please click here.
Congratulations to Grant Mitman
Dr. Grant Mitman recently graduated from the National Education
Association Emerging Leadership Academy. Grant was the first Montanan
to receive this honor.
Upcoming Events
April 5 – Undergraduate
Research Fair
April 11 – Tech Day
April 20-24 – Mine
Design and Closure Conference
April 24-26 – Petroleum
Technical Symposium
April 25 – T.G.I.F. Awards Banquet
April 26 -- Digger Auction
May 3 – Udder
Insanity
May 10 – Commencement
Reminder
Remember to keep checking out Tech’s photo gallery of the
construction of the Natural Resources Building. Please pass this
link along to alumni and friends.
http://www.mtech.edu/gallery/nat_res_constr/index.htm
Scholars Day
Congratulations to all involved with Montana Tech's Scholars Day.
With over 90 students attending it was a huge success. For a photo
gallery of the chair building contest click here.
For a movie click here.
Book Signing
Robert Birkby, author of “Mountain Madness, Scott Fischer,
Mount Everest and a Life Lived on High”, will be in the Pintler
Room of the SUB, Monday, April 7th at 11 am to discuss and sign
his book. Mountaineer Scott Fischer and outdoors expert Birkby were
friends and trekking companions from their 1982 meeting until Fischer’s
tragic, controversial death on a 1996 expedition up Everest, leading
a tour group from his Mountain Madness adventure travel business
(from which his clients all descended safely).
Birkby chronicles Fischer from his New Jersey childhood through
his years to perfect his skills and reach the highest peaks, and
the struggles to establish his travel company.
This warm remembrance should strike a powerful chord not just in
climbers, but in anyone who has lost a dear friend to untimely death.
April 18, 2008
Congratulations Henry Gonshak
Congratulations to Henry Gonshak on being awarded a Fulbright to
study in Poland. Henry will be teaching, starting in mid-September,
2008, at the University in Wroclaw, which is a large city in western
Poland near the border with Germany and the Czech Republic. Henry
will be teaching courses in American Literature and is working on
offering a graduate level course on Holocaust in American Mass Media.
Congratulations Margie Pascoe
 Margie
Pasoe recently was honored for her services as the State Rep for
the National Association of Foreign Student Advisors for the past
two years. Margie received the award at the state meeting she chaired/organized
in Missoula earlier this month.
Tech Student Named United Way Volunteer of the Year
Lorie Walks was named Volunteer of the Year at the recent United
Way of Butte and Anaconda Annual Meeting held at the Copper Lounge
at Montana Tech. During the award presentation, Walks was cited
as participating in every event for United Way this program year.
"The very first member of the newly formed United Way Volunteer
Posse, she was the first to arrive and the last to leave,"
according to Executive Director, Kathlene McNamee.
Walks is currently an honor student at Montana Tech College of Technology
in the Networking program. She and her husband Dan Walks have four
children.
Sigma Beta Delta Inducts This Years Class
 The
Montana Tech chapter of the Sigma Beta Delta Honor Society recently
inducted this years class. Becoming a member of Sigma Beta Delta
is the highest natonal recognition a business student can recieve
at a college or university with a Sigma Beta Delta chapter. To be
eligible for membership, a business student must rank in the upper
20 percent of the junior, senior or master's class and be invited
to membership by the faculty officers. The purposes of Sigma Beta
Delta are to encourage and recognize scholarship and achievement
among students of business, management and administration, and to
encourage and promote personal and professional improvement and
a life distinguished by honorable service to humankind.
This classes inductees are:
Daniel Absher, Clayton Camper, Clifton Fulkerson, Shauna Hollow,
Mary House (Helena program), Andrew Joyce, Nicholas McGree, Kerra
Melvin, Megan Schneiter, Justin Stratton
Honorary inductees:
Joe Kasperick - Emeritus, John Kasperick - Adjunct, Jim Woy –
Adjunct, Traci O’Neill – Assistant Professor
Beta Xi Sigma Elects Officers
Congratulations to the new officers for Beta Xi Sigma Chapter of
Phi Theta Kappa. Phi Theta Kappa is the international honor society
for two year colleges. Beta Xi Sigma Chapter at Tech's COT was chartered
in February
of 2005.
President: Corey Clark
Vice President: Jason Peterson
Treasurer: Jessica Horner
Recording Secretary: Jessica Morgan
Public Relations Officer: Elaine Winter
Concert Booked
Montana Tech and the Digger Athletic Association have partnered
to bring Black Stone Cherry to Montana Tech’s campus on September
6, 2008. Black Stone Cherry’s first album went gold selling
over 500,000 copies. Their next album is due out in June. Tickets
will be available to purchase at Mitzi’s Office in the Student
Union Building, $15 with a Tech ID, and $20 for general admission.
Another Bacteriophage Found
 Montana
Tech Biology Department’s Phagedigging Outreach program hits
pay-dirt again! April 7-9, Assistant Professor Dr. Marisa Pedulla
and Interdisciplinary Masters Program student Jason Park traveled
to Butte Central Catholic High School’s biology classes. Working
with their teacher, MT Tech Biology Graduate Misty Cunningham, 44
students in 3 classes tested soil and water samples for the presence
of mycobacteriophages, viruses that kill specific bacteria. The
students discovered a virus previously unknown to science, that
they named “BAR.” Characterization of the virus will
continue in Dr. Pedulla’s lab at Montana Tech.
Mining Team Takes First Place
The Montana Tech Men’s Mining Team just returned from Missouri
University of Science and Technology (Formerly University of Missouri
Rolla) where they took first place in the 30th Annual Intercollegiate
Mining Competition.
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