Delegations from 199 countries and over 100,000 people gathered Nov. 30 to Dec. 12, 2023 in Dubai for the UN climate change conference, known as the 28th Conference of the Parties or COP28. At this annual gathering, the delegates from around the world gathers to create global climate action ...

HOUGHTON — There’s time allotted at each meeting of the Michigan Tech Board of Trustees for the public to address the board. Usually, it passes in silence.  Not so last Friday. Four speakers—a community resident, a graduate student, a professor and a former dean—stepped up during ...

HOUGHTON, Mich. — The Michigan Economic Development Corp. (MEDC) announced today an $838,000 grant to Michigan Technological University (MTU) that will support a major expansion of semiconductor education and training programs across the Upper Peninsula while responding to Michigan’s ...

HOUGHTON — A Michigan Technological University student group’s display inviting students to spray paint messages on a replica of the Berlin Wall drew controversy Friday after students added comments attacking transgender people and other groups. The student group Young Americans for ...

HOUGHTON — The poster for “The Elephant 6 Recording Co.” lists a few key bands from the indie rock collective — Neutral Milk Hotel, The Olivia Tremor Control, The Apples in Stereo, Elf Power and Of Montreal. But alongside them, there’s also a “Sgt. Pepper”-ish gallery of dozens ...

HOUGHTON — It began in Ruston, Louisiana, a small rural town with a technical university, where four high-school friends — Robert Schneider, Bill Doss, Will Cullen Hart and Jeff Mangum — began making home recordings inspired by ‘60s pop and psychedelia. For college, Schneider moved ...