Month: September 2017
Fall enrollment at Missouri S&T tops 8,800
The fall 2017 enrollment at Missouri University of Science and Technology, officially recorded at the end of the semester’s fourth week, is 8,884. This is a 0.5 percent increase over last year’s fall enrollment of 8,838, says Deanne Jackson, Missouri S&T registrar.
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The doctor is IN
“The medical students from Rolla are different. Every single one seems to be scarily talented and driven.” That is the opinion of Dave Westenberg, who says he has probably taught a class to every S&T student who has gone on to medical school in the past 15 years. “It makes writing letters of recommendation for […]
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DeLUX Lab to focus on user experience
Students and faculty at Missouri University of Science and Technology will soon have a new resource for learning about how people interact with information technology.
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Record number of recruiters expected at Missouri S&T’s Career Fair
Missouri University of Science and Technology students seeking full-time employment after graduation or co-op or internship for the semester will have an opportunity to meet with a record number of employers at the 2017 Fall Career Fair on Tuesday, Sept. 26, in the Gale Bullman Building on the S&T campus. Over 315 companies are registered to attend the event.
Read More »The power of recycling could fuel vehicles in the future
The idea of recycling waste cooking oil into biodiesel fuel is nothing new. For years, researchers have studied the process and companies have recycled when possible. However, for many groups, cost is often the determining factor for making the effort to recycle.
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Missouri S&T’s Army ROTC to get a lift via helicopter
Two UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters from the Missouri Army National Guard will land on the Missouri University of Science and Technology campus this month to help train the university’s U.S. Army ROTC Stonehenge Battalion.
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Missouri S&T geologist leads $2.1M National Science Foundation research effort to study Earth’s greatest mass extinction
Missouri S&T geologist Dr. Wan Yang has devoted his academic career to unlocking the mysteries of the Permian mass extinction more than 250 million years ago. That geological odyssey now finds him leading an 11-institution consortium that’s been collectively awarded a $2.1 million National Science Foundation research grant.
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$1.6 million NSF grant to advance understanding of ‘amorphous’ materials
A physics professor at Missouri University of Science and Technology will lead a four-year effort to spur research, development and commercial adoption of a new class of oxide semiconductors that outperform silicon-based transistors and could lead to new uses for flexible displays.
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‘Fake news’ from 1738 offers lessons for modern historians, says Missouri S&T scholar
A widely circulated 1738 newspaper account of a Native American uprising against British settlers on the New England island of Nantucket – a report that turned out to be false – offers important lessons for historians today, says an assistant professor at Missouri University of Science and Technology.
Read More »Climate survey results presented
Based on the results of a campus climate survey administered last fall, the academic and work environment at Missouri University of Science and Technology is perceived as “comfortable” or “very comfortable” by 75 percent of respondents. But 18 percent of survey respondents report that they had experienced “exclusionary, intimidating, offensive and/or hostile conduct” during the […]
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