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The Great Lakes contain enough fresh water to cover the land area of the entire United States under 3 meters of water.
We collect 15 video presentations about Great Lake water safety and sustainability prepared by the 8 Great Lake border state colleges and universities and their national and international partners in Canada.
In a state whose land mass was formed by glaciers, has there been climate change in its 10,000 – 15,000 year past? Did the glaciers melt because of sport utility vehicles made in Detroit? We refer you to the Academy of Projectors described in Book Three of Jonathan Swift’s 1726 satire on academia in “Gulliver’s Travels”
When the wicked problems of peace and economic inequality cannot be solved, political leaders, and the battalions of servile administrative muckety-mucks who report to them, resort to fear-mongering about an imagined problem to be solved centuries hence assuming every other nation agrees on remedies of its anthropogenic origin. We would not draw attention to it were it not that large tranches of the global academic community are in on the grift costing hundreds of billions in square-footage for research and teaching hopelessness to our children and hatred of climate change deniers.
Before the internet is scrubbed of information contrary to climate change mania, we recommend a few titles:
The Titan Innovation Fund was introduced to spark innovation at UDM. It supports new, creative ideas that improve the University and student experiences by ensuring that they receive the resources and support needed to survive: https://t.co/tbLwUxkbEbpic.twitter.com/LfqM7Sup1p
We want our young people to learn how to make a living in challenges of their time. The EA Café is a student-run coffee cart operated by the Entrepreneurship Association on the McNichols Campus. Launched in 2023 as a hands-on class project, it has quickly become a popular spot offering coffee, flavored lattes, and other beverages to students, faculty, and staff. The café functions as a real-world learning laboratory. EA students manage every aspect — purchasing supplies, preparing drinks, customer service, marketing, and finances. The movable cart is typically set up in high-traffic locations such as the Engineering Building and campus events. Beyond providing convenient study fuel, the EA Café represents UDM’s strong commitment to experiential learning and student entrepreneurship.
Detroit (meaning “strait”, a narrow passage of water toward Lac Érié ) was founded in 1701 by French explorer and military officer Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac. This was the first permanent European settlement in what is now Wayne County Southeast Michigan and one of the earliest above tidewater in North America. Before the French arrived, the area was inhabited by Native American tribes (Ojibwe, Odawa, Potawatomi, and others). Relations between these tribes and the newcomers from Europe were a mix of alliances, trade, intermarriage, and violence.*
Detroit remained under French control until 1760 (when the British took it during the French and Indian War). Many French families stayed even after that. Detroit still has strong French roots — street names, family surnames, and neighborhoods like Grosse Pointe and Ecorse trace back to those early French settlers. European immigrants to Southeast Michigan — drawn by economic opportunities enabled by the American founding documents (personal responsibility, religious tolerance, limited government, fiscal conservatism) — came in waves for the better part of 150 years.
Canadians across the river (City of Windsor, and much of Southwest Ontario) trace their English origins to Yorkshire, Cumberland, Devon & Cornwall, Highland Scots and all of Ireland. Many Dutch, driven out of New York City, traveled past Detroit and settled in Kent County Western Michigan.
* Deliberately overlooked by Revisionists in the legacy US public school system: ancestral violence among the Native American tribes themselves. Cadillac invited multiple tribes in the Southeast Michigan and Ohio region to settle near Fort Pontchartrain du Détroit for protection against Iroquois invaders from Western New York.
Families Cannot Stand the Gorilla Grip the Democratic Party (Rashida Talib & Shri Thanedar & Debbie Dingell) Has on Southeast Michigan So They Have Fled To The Suburbs
St. Catherine of Siena Academy | Oakland County Michigan
Michigan Technological University helps sustain Finnish culture in the Upper Peninsula despite Finlandia University’s 2023 closure. Located just across the Portage Waterway from Hancock’s former Finlandia campus, Michigan Tech has long been intertwined with the region’s deep Finnish heritage from 19th- and early 20th-century copper mining immigrants.
Michigan Tech accepted teach-out agreements, allowing Finlandia students to complete degrees while maintaining credits and similar tuition costs. It also gained custodianship of Finlandia’s academic records and transcripts.
The university embeds Finnish influences through its location in a historically Finnish-American community. Its archives and library resources document Finnish immigration, labor history, and ethnic identity in the Keweenaw Peninsula. Campus life reflects local traditions, including sauna culture—a hallmark of Finnish identity—that Michigan Tech students and the broader community embrace.
While the Finlandia Foundation National now stewards key assets like the Finnish American Heritage Center, archives, Folk School, and events, Michigan Tech’s proximity, student integration, research, and community role ensure ongoing educational and cultural continuity for Finnish-American traditions in Michigan.
The 1943 American bombing of the hydrogen plant at Rjukan Norway — so that the Germans could not make a heavy water hydrogen bomb — resembles the 2026 American bombing of Operation Epic Fury. Inspired by Norwegian family immigration to the shores of Lake Michigan we collect stories of those families fleeing the economic hardship of their homeland before the discovery of North Sea oil.
In the late 1960s, the discovery of massive North Sea oil reserves transformed Norway from a modest fishing, shipping, and hydroelectric economy into one of the world’s richest nations. Oil revenues funded an expansive welfare state and created the world’s largest sovereign wealth fund. This “outsized good fortune” should temper any sense of moral or cultural superiority some Norwegians express toward America. Striking oil is no guarantee of success — see Venezuela or Nigeria. Norway also benefited from American technology, open markets, and capital.
The United States further provided critical security: liberating Norway in WWII and leading NATO during the Cold War, allowing Norway to focus on welfare rather than heavy defense. No student debt! Arrogance ignores contingency. Norway’s success rests on oil rents, a small homogeneous population, high trust, and luck — not inherent superiority. America’s innovations and security role helped create the global order that enabled such fortunes in Norway specifically and Western Europe generally. Recall the American role in the destruction of the German heavy water refinement plants in November 1943 (The Heroes of Telemark) which bears an uncanny resemblance to the present USA Operation Epic Fury in Iran.
Gratitude and humility suit these discussions better than condescension.
The command issued by the character Captain Jean-Luc Picard in the television series “Star Trek: The Next Generation” finds its way into the archive of photographs of Nobel Laureates consorting with politicians at the University of Michigan and elsewhere.
Attendees of the Theoretical Physics Colloquium at the University of Michigan in 1929.
…”There’s not good math explaining forget the physics of it. Math explaining the behavior of complex systems yeah and that to me is both exciting and paralyzing like we’re at very early days of understanding you know how complicated and fascinating things emerge from simple rules…” — Peter Woit [1:16:00]
Since 1936 the Brown Jug has been the ancestral trough of generations of University of Michigan students and faculty — notably. Donald Glaser (inventor of the bubble chamber) and Samuel C. C. Ting (Nobel Laureate) whose offices at Randall Laboratory were a 2-minute walk around the corner from The Brown Jug. As the lore goes, the inspiration happened whilst watching beer bubbles one ordinary TGIF Friday.
HP Critical Facilities Services | Bethesda, Maryland
Mark Beirne
DLB Associates | Chicago, Illinois
Abstract. The key feature of this article is the application of quantitative method for evaluating risk and conveying the results into a power system design that is scaled according to hazards present in any given emergency management district. These methods employ classical lumped parameter modeling of power chain architectures and can be applied to any type of critical facility, whether it is a stand-alone structure, or a portion of stand-alone structure, such as a police station or government center. This article will provide a risk assessment roadmap for one of the most common critical facilities that should be designated as COPS per NEC 708-a 911 call center. The existing methods of reliability engineering will be used in the risk assessment.
* Robert Schuerger is the lead author on this paper
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New update alert! The 2022 update to the Trademark Assignment Dataset is now available online. Find 1.29 million trademark assignments, involving 2.28 million unique trademark properties issued by the USPTO between March 1952 and January 2023: https://t.co/njrDAbSpwBpic.twitter.com/GkAXrHoQ9T
