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January 25, 2012 by Samantha Allen
Let the Ball Drop! Last Friday, January 13, the 2012 Ball Drop broomball game was played. The Ball Drop game was the first broomball game of the season. With the ceremonial first game of the season complete, it is time to get your shoes on and brooms ready because the 2012 broomball season has begun! [...]
January 27, 2012
Imagine ice hockey without body checking and football with less hitting. What might sound blasphemous to hockey and football fans and players has more support than you may imagine. And a Michigan Tech researcher is a large part of that conversation.
Syd Johnson, assistant professor of philosophy and adjunct professor of kinesiology and integrative physiology, has studied the impact of concussions and is joining those who urge revolutionary changes in hockey and football. Her timing is right.
“When Sidney Crosby [of the Pittsburgh Penguins] got his concussion and was lost for the season, it attracted a lot of attention,” she says.
Arguably the world’s . . .
January 24, 2012
Seventeen green machines are coming to snow-white Upper Michigan March 5-10 for the 13th annual SAE Clean Snowmobile Challenge, held at Michigan Technological University’s Keweenaw Research Center.
The Clean Snowmobile Challenge is a collegiate design competition of the Society of Automotive Engineers. A total of 12 teams are registered in the internal combustion category. Engineering students from participating schools take a stock snowmobile and reengineer it. Their aim: to reduce emissions and noise and increase fuel efficiency while preserving the riding excitement demanded by snowmobile enthusiasts.
Five teams are entered in the zero emissions category, for battery-powered sleds, which is sponsored . . .
