Month: December 2008
Bond secures $1.66 million for S&T plug-in hybrid project
U.S. Sen. Kit Bond has secured $1.66 million from the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) to fund a partnership between Missouri University of Science and Technology and the Kansas City, Mo., government to provide clean battery-powered transit vehicles to the city.
Read More »Paul Hirtz named interim director of student design center
Dr. Paul Hirtz has been named interim director of Missouri S&T’s Student Design and Experiential Learning Center effective Nov. 26.
Read More »New Discovery Channel series blasts off with Missouri S&T explosives expert
An explosives expert from Missouri University of Science and Technology has teamed up with one of his former students to co-host a new Discovery Channel series about the engineering of blowing things up.
Read More »New center at S&T focuses on bioactive ways to repair bones and tissue
At Missouri University of Science and Technology, there’s a new focus on finding ways to help the body fix itself. The Center for Bone and Tissue Repair and Regeneration officially opened on campus in January of 2008.
Read More »S&T’s Big Beam Team takes first place in region
A team of Missouri University of Science and Technology students recently placed first in Region 3 of the Precast/Prestressed Concrete Institute’s Big Beam Competition.
Read More »Economy, progress highlight State of the University Address
On the heels of a request from state legislative leaders for Missouri’s public colleges and universities to prepare for significant cuts in state funding, Missouri S&T Chancellor John F. Carney III said in his State of the University Address on Thursday (Dec. 4, 2008) that public higher education is the solution to economic problems and should be protected.
Read More »New chemical and biological engineering chair begins Jan. 1
Dr. Muthanna H. Al-Dahhan, a professor of energy, environmental and chemical engineering at Washington University in St. Louis, will become chair of chemical and biological engineering at Missouri University of Science and Technology effective Jan. 1.
Read More »S&T orchestras to perform holiday concert on Dec. 12
The Missouri S&T University and Community Symphony Orchestra and the Missouri S&T Chamber Orchestra will perform their winter holiday concert at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Dec. 12, in Leach Theater of Castleman Hall, 10th and Main streets in Rolla. The orchestra will be conducted by Dr. Robert J. Cesario, assistant professor of arts, languages and philosophy.
Read More »S&T undergrad to receive full scholarship from new Saudi university
Rayan Alghanim, a junior in petroleum engineering at Missouri University of Science and Technology, has been selected to receive a full scholarship to attend graduate school at a new university in Saudi Arabia.
Read More »S&T researcher publishes book about good old boys, rednecks and southern gentlemen
Dr. Trent Watts, assistant professor in the department of English and technical communication at Missouri University of Science and Technology, recently published a book titled White Masculinity in the Recent South.
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