Detroit-based group considered to be Michigan's premier contemporary dance company will perform at 8 p.m. on June 1 in the Arts Center auditorium. Tickets are $18 for general admission, $15 for seniors and $8 for children and students. Get tickets at lssu.edu/artscenter or 906-635-2602. Full Article >>
Seven students received cash grants this past spring to support six research projects that are happening this summer. The projects range from exploring an organic method to break up petroleum byproducts in soil, to a novel use of photography that documents the biodiversity found in one cubic foot of space. Full Article >>
An LSSU faculty member since 1995, Gadzinski's work has been published widely, including in his collections titled, "Lotus Eater," "Sweetgrass," and "Road's End." Full Article >>
The 24th-annual Greater Peninsula Orthopedics Lake State Golf Classic — held this year May 31 and June 1-2 — changes venue to northern Michigan's Boyne Mountain Resort, with its zip line course, horseback riding, indoor water park, and 11 golf courses. Full Article >>
Michigan Outdoor Writers Association is a non-profit organization of professional outdoor writers, photographers, editors, and radio and television broadcast journalists. The group traveled to the twin Saults for a three-day meeting hosted by the Algoma Kinniwabi Travel Association . Full Article >>
The Way North: Collected Upper Peninsula New Works, was published this month by Wayne State University Press and includes the poetry of Julie Brooks Barbour, Mary McMyne, James Zukowski and Eric Gadzinski, as well as a short story by Janice Repka. Full Article >>
Lake Superior State University and Moran Iron Works, one of Michigan's largest and fastest growing large-component metal fabricators, have signed an agreement to open an exchange of academic and industrial ideas and foster training between workers, management, LSSU faculty and students. Full Article >>
LSSU's Presidential Search Committee held its first organizational meetings and announced an online survey to solicit input from the LSSU community and community at large. Full Article >>
Laker hockey alumnus Bates Battaglia may not have played on a team that won the Stanley Cup before he retired from hockey, but he did win a national contest that may be just as popular. Full Article >>
Dick's Sporting Goods, of Grand Rapids, Mich., donated wall sections during a campaign in 2011 spearheaded by LSSU's Recreation Club. Remaining sections and hardware were funded this past fall by student donations of loose change through the LSSU Foundation's "Piggy-U" effort. DeVere Construction installed two of four sections as a gift to LSSU students. Full Article >>
Math professors from nearly every one of Michigan's colleges, universities, and community colleges gathered for a two-day meeting of the Michigan section of the Mathematical Association of American and the Michigan Mathematical Association of Two-Year Colleges. Full Article >>
Lake Superior State University theater company actor Kelby Ankerson lends an air of realism to professor Jamiee Gerrie's NURS 213, fundamentals of nursing lab. Full Article >>
Deborah Choszczyk, the LSSU dance professor who immediately made her mark on campus and community upon her arrival in 2007, has been recognized for her teaching and her enthusiasm in bringing her art to her students. Full Article >>
School of Business has presented its 13th annual distinguished alumni award to Victor Breed, currently chief financial officer of Genoa Holding Company, Inc., of Seattle, Wash. Full Article >>
LSSU students graduate at 11 a.m. on Saturday, April 27, in the Norris Center's Taffy Abel Arena. Click the link on this page to see live streaming video of the ceremony. Full Article >>
Workers undergo a 13-week certificate program in manufacturing processes. The program is part of a quick-response initiative as demand for manufacturing skills experiences an uptick. Full Article >>
Class-designed Web site aims to introduce what the Eastern Upper Peninsula has to offer. Teams tailored marketing plans to maximize website hits from Argentina, Canada, Russia, Brazil, Turkey, Germany, and England. The pilot project investigated and developed business-to-business marketing strategies to attract foreign interest. Full Article >>
A Chippewa County commissioner and his wife have created a scholarship in their daughter's memory. Donald and Christine McLean's gift of the Karen M. McLean Memorial Award will help Chippewa County college-bound students attend Lake Superior State University. Full Article >>
Political Science seniors apply knowledge and skills acquired from courses in multiple disciplines to carry out a long-term and ambitious project that requires creativity, planning, and self-discipline. Full Article >>
Sault High advanced-placement biology classes worked with LSSU chemistry and biology faculty on April 19 in LSSU labs, doing stuff like gel electrophoresis and pGLO bacterial transformation. Full Article >>
A devoted student section joins Native American and American West art from the L. F. Noyes Collection, which has been on permanent display since the Center's 2005 dedication. Full Article >>
Approximately 25 percent of students in Eastern U.P. are eligible for the Michigan Tuition Incentive Program, but many of them do not know it. Read this to find out if you are, and find out more about TIP during a program at 6 p.m. April 25 at Sault Area High School. Full Article >>
LSSU student Harry Dittrich has joined a "one-cubic-foot" expedition to photograph creatures that live in or move through habitat cubes, coaxing out every inhabitant, down to a size of about a millimeter. Full Article >>
Helena Wollan is combining her interests in fashion, the arts and charitable giving, along with her major in business administration/marketing, to stage what may be the first LSSU student-produced campus fashion show at 7 p.m. on Saturday, April 20. Admission is by donation to the American Cancer Society. Full Article >>
Complaints about Sault Ste. Marie's cold spring weather should ease when Tiempo Libre warms up the Arts Center stage. The band performs at 8 p.m. on April 19. Check out a free educational program about the band's native country, culture and music. Full Article >>
Lake Superior State University's dance company dedicates April 12-13 showcase to those in the LSSU community who have recently been diagnosed with cancer. Admission is by donation. Author Connie Curry will be on hand to sign copies of her book, "Give Me Back My Glory." Full Article >>
Engineering alumnus Steven Lien, who went on to work 33 years in aerospace before retiring from Boeing in 2010, is making a visit to campus April 2-3 for a public talk and special working sessions with engineering faculty and students. Public talk is 7 p.m. TONIGHT! Full Article >>
Another keystone local business has joined the ranks of donors to Lake Superior State University’s South Hall renovation project that will house the newly named Lukenda School of Business. Madigan Pingatore Insurance Services has donated $25,000 towards a state-of-the-art seminar room. Full Article >>
Fine arts student Trevor Freeman exhibits an acrylic painting that placed second in the 2013 Mackinac Island Lilac Festival Fine Arts Poster contest - along with other Great Lakes-themed paintings and prints - in the Kenneth Shouldice Library gallery through April 6 during regular library hours. Full Article >>
Chrysler Powertrain Synthesis Manager Mark J. Duty, a 1987 LSSU engineering graduate, has been named winner of the Walter P. Chrysler Technology Award, given to holders of Chrysler Group’s most outstanding patents. Full Article >>
Husband and wife student artists Judy and David Walker present "Seasons of Life" exhibit being shown in the Shouldice Library Art Gallery through March 28 as part of their graduation requirements. Full Article >>
A national expert is among several who will make presentations during the Superior Accounting Conference hosted by the LSSU student chapter of the Institute of Management Accountants May 3 on campus. Full Article >>
Lake Superior State University is hosting a visit March 28-29 from Dr. Veronica Pinnick, a research scientist whose instrument tastes Martian organic chemistry on board the Curiosity rover. Full Article >>
Mayor encourages everyone in Sault Ste. Marie to learn more about the importance of athletic training and to remember that, "Every body needs an athletic trainer." Full Article >>
A 14-foot effigy went up in smoke during Lake Superior State University's annual burning of a snowman to welcome spring. The ceremony has been going on since 1971. Full Article >>
The only student chapter of Ducks Unlimited in Michigan will host its sixth annual banquet on Saturday, March 23. Tickets are still available for the event, which starts at 5 p.m. in the LSSU Walker Cisler Center. Full Article >>
Lake Superior State University's Theater Department will present the comedy "Rumors," written by Neil Simon and directed by Prof. Jennifer Hunter, March 22-24 in the LSSU Arts Center Auditorium. Full Article >>
The community is welcome when LSSU welcomes spring a couple days late with its annual Snowman Burning at noon on Friday, March 22, on the north side of the Walker Cisler Center. Full Article >>
Lake Superior State University's Fisheries and Wildlife Club has garnered the 2012 Most Active Student Subunit Award from the north central division of the American Fisheries Society for the 6th consecutive year. Full Article >>
Agreement signed by Lake State and Jakarta's Universitas Gunadarma lays groundwork for economic development, academic, and educational exchanges. Full Article >>
