Year: 2020
Missouri S&T waives application fee for fall 2021 freshmen, transfers
Incoming first-year students and transfer students who apply for admission to Missouri University of Science and Technology for the fall 2021 semester may now do so without paying an application fee if they apply by Dec. 1. Missouri S&T’s fee waiver applies to first-time undergraduate applicants and transfer students applying for admission to the 2021–22 […]
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S&T’s first history fellowship honors faculty mentor
With a gift of $250,000, Missouri S&T history alumnus Cordell Smith has established the university’s first endowment to fund the research efforts of S&T history and political science faculty. The Lawrence O. Christensen Endowed Faculty Fellowship honors late Missouri historian and S&T professor Dr. Lawrence Christensen.
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Innovation, the Rolla way
From our founding, S&T and innovation have been tightly linked Note: Friday, Nov. 6, 2020, is Founders Day at Missouri S&T. It marks the 149th anniversary of the first day of classes at our university, then known as the Missouri School of Mines and Metallurgy. For more about our history and our 150th anniversary celebration, […]
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Critical Minerals Workshop coming in April
A trained workforce, exploration and sustainability are vital to the future of critical minerals such as rare earth elements, nickel, platinum and lithium. S&T is hosting a critical minerals workshop on April 26-27, 2021, to look closer at these issues and others.
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Mining students in Ecuador
Missouri S&T will soon welcome mining engineering students from Ecuador in the culmination of an over-five-year effort to bring students to Rolla. Administrators from Missouri S&T began visiting Ecuador in 2014 and signed a transfer agreement in 2017 with Universidad San Francisco de Quito (USFQ) to bring students interested in mining to Rolla. The exchange […]
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Missouri S&T wins Trailblazer Award for campus safety
Missouri S&T was nominated and selected as a 2020 recipient of the Trailblazer Award from Rave Mobile Safety for its work to implement new safety and security ideas on campus.
Read More »Nobel Prize winner to give virtual physics colloquium at Missouri S&T
Dr. Rainer Weiss, winner of the 2017 Nobel Prize in physics, will present a virtual physics colloquium titled “Beginnings of gravitational wave astronomy: current state and future” at 4 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 5.
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Escaping a mine disaster
Being trapped in a collapsed mine may be one of the most terrifying ordeals anyone could experience. There is the total darkness, the struggle to breath with low oxygen, no food or drink, and potentially no way to alert others to a rescue location.
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Missouri S&T chancellor’s State of the University address rescheduled to Nov. 5
Missouri S&T Chancellor Mo Dehghani’s second State of the University address to the campus and community has been rescheduled to 11 a.m.-noon Thursday, Nov. 5, on Zoom. The event is free and open to the public. Dehghani plans to discuss how two recent donations to the university will help shape Missouri S&T as a “destination […]
Read More »Computer security thesis captures research award
Xinhui Zhan, who earned a master of science degree in information science and technology from Missouri S&T in 2019, received the Best Student Research Award at the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) Working Group’s 2020 Dewald Roode Information Security Workshop in October.
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