Month: March 2024
Missouri S&T jazz ensemble and student-led music ensembles to perform spring concerts
Missouri S&T’s arts, languages and philosophy department will present its spring jazz ensemble concert and a student-led music ensemble showcase this April.
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Missouri S&T alumni shoot for the moon
In the 1960s, Donald Beinart, a Missouri S&T alumnus, helped create flight simulation systems for NASA’s Project Gemini, which was a precursor to the Apollo program’s manned lunar landings. Almost six decades later, his grandson, Matt Klosterman, who is also a Missouri S&T alumnus, played a role in the country’s first lunar landing since the Apollo program came to an end.
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Hardcore research: S&T study explores best areas in state to find critical minerals
Researchers from Missouri S&T are using rock core samples collected in the past to find the best areas for the future mining of critical minerals.
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Three named to Missouri S&T’s Women’s Hall of Fame
Missouri S&T recognized three successful individuals at the 2024 Women’s Hall of Fame Awards, held March 20 on the Missouri S&T campus. The honorees include a professor, a staff member and an alumna.
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Missouri S&T alumnus part of India’s lunar landing
Twenty-seven years ago, when Radhakant Padhi was in the early stages of his career and working as a national defense scientist in India, he aspired to one day earn a Ph.D. in aerospace engineering in the United States.
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S&T researcher to lead $7.5 million multi-institution study on heat-resistant materials
When a multi-institution group of researchers led by Dr. William Fahrenholtz says they are researching one of the hottest topics in academia, they mean it literally.
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Back to where it all started
Tanner Beistel remembers that as far back as kindergarten, he tried to hurry up and finish his work so he could go help other kids with their schoolwork. By the time he was in fifth grade, he knew that he wanted to be a teacher. Now he is realizing that dream as a student teacher at Rolla Middle School, where he teaches science and social studies.
Read More »Gao named Missouri S&T’s chair of geosciences, geological and petroleum engineering
Dr. Stephen S. Gao, Curators’ Distinguished Teaching Professor of geosciences and geological and petroleum engineering (GGPE) at Missouri S&T, will take the reins as permanent chair of his department on Monday, April 1. Since August 2023, he has served as the interim chair.
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2024 Queen of Love and Beauty crowned at Missouri S&T
Katie McNevin, a junior in electrical engineering from Saint Charles, Missouri, has been crowned the 2024 Queen of Love and Beauty as part of the 116th St. Pat’s celebration in Rolla. She was nominated by Phi Sigma Rho.
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S&T alumna encourages women to consider nuclear engineering
Corie Glenn, a Missouri S&T alumna, has been interested in nuclear engineering since she was a teenager, and she says she hopes more young women will realize this is a potential career path.
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