Month: August 2023
S&T challenges students to identify ways to positively affect campus, community
S&T students will soon have an opportunity to compete for cash prizes by voicing their concerns about areas of campus and community life they find challenging. The 24-hour Campus Impact Challenge starts Friday, Sept. 15, at 4 p.m. in St. Pat’s Ballroom C of the Havener Center, where teams will be formed based on interests.
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First-day enrollment grows, tops 7,000 at Missouri S&T
Enrollment on the first day of classes at Missouri S&T is 7,022, according to Missouri S&T Registrar Deanne Jackson. This is an increase over last year’s first-day total of 6,971. S&T will continue to register students during the first weeks of the fall semester. Official enrollment figures for the fall 2023 semester will be available after […]
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Missouri S&T students restore historical fire truck
Student employees at Missouri S&T’s Kummer Student Design Center had a unique opportunity to work on a piece of Rolla history this summer. The students have been cleaning up one of the city’s first fire trucks, an REO Speed Wagon from the 1920s.
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Missouri S&T hosts national discussion on critical minerals crisis
For over 150 years, Missouri S&T has been a leader in the field of mineral recovery, and that continued to be the case last week when the university hosted the third annual Resilient Supply of Critical Minerals national workshop.
Read More »Missouri S&T announces faculty fellows for NSF program
Four faculty members from Missouri S&T have been selected for the university’s first cohort of ADVANCE Faculty Fellows.
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The book abides: New book traces origin of the term ‘Dude’
In the 1880s, a new insult was beginning to be used in New York City. The term “dude” was replacing the more commonly used “dandy” to refer to young men who were overly concerned with their appearance and emulating the styles of English gentlemen.
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Missouri S&T names Shelley D. Minteer founding director of the Kummer Institute Center for Resource Sustainability
Dr. Shelley D. Minteer, the Dale and Susan Poulter Endowed Chair of Biological Chemistry at the University of Utah, has been appointed founding director of the Kummer Institute Center for Resource Sustainability at Missouri University of Science and Technology. Minteer is an expert in energy storage and conversion and on the electrification of chemical manufacturing, a process known as electrosynthesis.
Read More »Strong year for patents and inventions at Missouri S&T
Missouri University of Science and Technology’s office for Technology Transfer and Economic Development (TTED) took in almost $740,000 in royalties in the fiscal year that ended June 30.
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No crystal ball necessary: Predicting the future of coastal freshwater ecosystems
When predicting the future, some people use a crystal ball or tarot cards. When Missouri S&T geologist Dr. Jonathan Obrist-Farner does it, he uses sediment core samples.
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“Mystical Arts of Tibet” at Missouri S&T Aug. 22-25
The Multiphonic Singers of Drepung Loseling Monastery in Georgia will bring Tibetan culture to Missouri University of Science and Technology as a Leach Theatre Special Event, the Mystical Arts of Tibet, this August.
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