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LTU’s Jay Jessen named STEM Director of the Year 2025 by Education Technology Insights
SOUTHFIELD, Mich.—Lawrence Technological Universityis proud to announce that Jay Jessen, director of LTU’s Marburger STEM Center, has been named STEM Director of the Year 2025 by Education Technology Insights, a leading industry publication recognizing innovation and leadership in education. The award honors Jessen’s transformational approach to inclusive, hands-on STEM learning, which has already reached more […]
Lawrence Tech’s Hidden Figures Scholar Program Hosts Detroit High Schoolers
SOUTHFIELD—Inspiring girls from underrepresented populations to pursue STEM education and careers is the aim of the Hidden Figures ScholarTM program at Lawrence Technological University. In events that began last spring and continued through early December, LTU’s new program hosted a series of workshops for more than 150 girls attending Renaissance, Osborn, Northwestern, and Crockett Midtown high […]
LTU, PNC Foundation develop new STEM Motorsport and Mobility Center
SOUTHFIELD—Lawrence Technological University was recently awarded a $225,000 grant from the PNC Foundation to develop a new STEM Motorsport and Mobility Center. The new center will collaborate with Blue Devil Motorsports, the Marburger STEM Center and industry partners from the automotive and mobility sectors. The program will use LTU’s core applied science and engineering curriculum, […]
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Bosch Community Fund backs LTU Summer STEM Series with $26k
SOUTHFIELD—The Bosch Community Fund has supported Lawrence Technological University’s Summer STEM Series for middle schoolers with a $26,355 grant. The grant supports the program, paying for meals, stipends for LTU student assistants and chaperones, instructor costs, and laboratory equipment. The Summer STEM Series (S3) is for students entering seventh, eighth and ninth grades. Its curriculum […]
High school students to analyze genetically modified foods at LTU under new grant
SOUTHFIELD—High school students will come to Lawrence Technological University in March to learn how to analyze DNA to detect genetically modified foods under a grant from the American Society of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. Irfana Muqbil, assistant professor of biochemistry in LTU’s College of Arts and Sciences The grant comes from ASBMB’s Science Outreach and […]
Wayne-Westland middle schoolers learn STEM skills in LTU summer program
SOUTHFIELD — Using 12-foot aluminum poles, middle school students from the Wayne-Westland Community Schools carefully dipped water sample collection jars into the Evans Branch of the Rouge River, a clay-bottomed stream that flows through the campus of Lawrence Technological University. A Wayne-Westland middle schooler pulls a sample out of the Evans Branch of the Rouge […]
LTU gets Bosch Community Fund, state grants for summer STEM camps
SOUTHFIELD–Lawrence Technological University has received a $25,015 grant from the Bosch Community Fund to support the Marburger STEM Center’s “Summer STEM Series” program for students entering seventh, eighth, and ninth grades. The program also received a $19,873 grant from the Michigan Department of Labor and Economic Opportunity’s MiSTEM Network. Both grants will support a program […]
