Month: June 2018
Office hours at 95: pioneering Missouri S&T professor Bill James reflects on 65 years in Rolla
Despite spending the past 65 years in Rolla, Bill James’ thick Maine accent remains intact. He credits the links between two seemingly dissimilar locales for luring him to campus as a newly minted Iowa State University Ph.D. back in 1953. That decision would mark the start of a distinguished academic career highlighted by receiving the university’s first National Science Foundation research award, playing a key role in the formation of a Ph.D. program in chemical engineering, and establishing, in 1964, one of the university’s first research centers, the Graduate Center for Materials Research.
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Rolla Town Band to perform June 21
Band tunes will float through the downtown area when the Rolla Town Band performs its first concert of the season this June.
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See fireworks two Fridays in June at Missouri S&T
Watch the skies above Missouri S&T in June for two student-produced fireworks displays.
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S&T invites the public to a community-wide discussion on gene editing
Missouri University of Science and Technology’s biological sciences department will host a public forum, “Editing our Evolution: Rewriting the Human Genome,” from 6:30 – 8:30 p.m. Tuesday, June 19, in the Carver-Turner Room of the Havener Center on campus. The meeting is free and open to the public, and anyone interested in participating in a […]
Read More »Missouri S&T moves to ‘highly selective’ admissions status
Missouri S&T has become one of only two public universities in the state to be designated as “highly selective” in their admissions criteria.
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A conversation on LGBTQ campus life
This summer, cities from St. Louis to Singapore will again celebrate gay pride with parades, lectures and other public events, an annual occasion now for several decades in some communities. Closer to home, Rolla and Missouri S&T will remain quiet — and not only because it’s summer.
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S&T team places second in University Rover Challenge, best among U.S. teams
Missouri S&T’s Mars Rover Design Team, winners of the 2017 University Rover Challenge (URC) finished second among a field of 36 collegiate teams in this year’s competition, which was won by Czestochowa University of Technology. Missouri S&T had the top score among the 12 U.S. teams in the competition.
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Learn about the Ozarks’ Civil War history this summer
View an art gallery of Civil War impression paintings, learn about the Civil War across the Ozarks and discover the western border skirmishes that dotted Missouri at a series of events held at the Curtis Laws Wilson Library at Missouri S&T this summer.
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