December 22, 2017
The Trine University basketball teams start the new year in a new home with the opening of the MTI Center.
The women’s basketball team will be the first to play in the new building on Jan. 3 at 7:30 pm and it will be “Community Hoopla Day” with prizes given away to fans, including a free t-shirt to the first 400 spectators. There will be halftime activities that include an opportunity to win a jersey. The Community Hoopla Day game will be free admission.
The first game inside the MTI Center will feature the top two teams in the Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association and two nationally-ranked squads as the Thunder women host Hope (Mich.) College.
Both teams split the season meetings last year as the Thunder went on to claim its first MIAA regular-season championship and eventually the conference tournament title. Hope and Trine are both ranked in the top-10 nationally in both the D3hoops.com and Women’s Basketball Coaches Association (WBCA) polls.
The Trine men will play their first game in the MTI Center on Jan. 10 against Adrian (Mich.) College at 7:30 pm. It will be the official Grand Opening of the building with a tailgate prior to the start of the game.
Free t-shirts will also be given away and following the game, there will be a $200 half-court contest. The first fan to make the half-court shot will win the $200 gift card.
Trine has won six of the last seven meetings against Adrian, including both matchups a year ago.
Trine University students have been honored for projects presented at the university’s eighth annual STEM Research and Design Symposium, held Thursday, Dec. 5, on the concourse of the MTI Center.
Hemin Mohammed, Ph.D., assistant professor in Trine University’s Reiners Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, pilots the department’s DJI Matrice 350 RTK drone on Tuesday, Dec. 3, for students in the CE 2001: Surveying Lab.
Faculty from Trine University's McKetta Department of Chemical and Bioprocess Engineering actively contributed to the 2024 American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) Annual Meeting, held Oct. 25–31 in San Diego, California.