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"We were together. I forget the rest..." -- Walt Whitman
Michigan Technological University | Houghton County
ALWAYS ON
Summer Sabbatica
Even rest has its measure. While topic presentation will continue according to our CALENDAR our daily colloquia will not resume until August 20.
“Lovely Day”
"The Coffee Tones" -- étudiant ensemble basé à Lyon -- reprend un Standard Américain.
Bruin Café
Serving coffee in the morning, and wine at night, a "Brown Cafe" recalls Dutch "gezellig"; built with dark wood paneling, low lighting, and classic architectural detail. They are located buildings dating back to the 1200's. The ancestral gathering place nearest the Grote Markt -- "De Drie Gezusters" -- is named after the three daughters of Peter Stuyvesant IV, descendent of the former governor of New York.
Quadrivium: Summer
Educational settlements should be magical places. The stack informing the beauty of these "cities-within-cities" changes 100 to 1000 times per day globally. We monitor the action continuously to formulate response to public consultations. Topics appear on our CALENDAR and explored every day at 15:00 UTC. Recommend refresh of this web page once or twice to see timeliest information.
Sport News
"I always turn to the sports pages first, which record people's accomplishments. The front page has nothing but man's failures." — Earl Warren (American jurist and Chief Justice, often misattributed but widely quoted in sports contexts)
Current Issues & Recent Research
We are tooling up for the NFPA 2029 National Electrical Code Technical Committee Meetings in September and the IEEE Industrial Applications Society Meetings in October.
Graduation, Dating, Engagements, Weddings, Births & Obituaries
Pairing young people with a lifetime bond may be the most enduring reason for educational settlements to exist; and one that has received subtle disregard by higher education administrators and marketers of the "college experience".
Strawberry Rhubarb Pie
Originated in England where rhubarb was paired with sweet strawberries in the 18th–19th centuries to balance tartness with sugar. Pioneer settlers carried seeds and recipes westward during 19th-century expansion. In Wyoming, hardy rhubarb thrived in high-plains gardens, becoming a beloved spring dessert in ranch kitchens and cafes, blending English roots with American frontier foodways.
Reflections / John Nash
Gregory A. Burton speaks about John Nash's influence, including the 1950 paper "Non-Cooperative Games" which inspired entirely new fields of inquiry for which Nash won the 1994 Nobel Prize for Economics.