Author: Andrew Careaga

Provost Wray named ASCE diplomate

Posted by on March 19, 2009

Dr. Warren K. Wray, provost and executive vice chancellor for academic affairs at Missouri University of Science and Technology, is one of 37 eminent geotechnical engineers recently selected for a new professional recognition from the American Society of Civil Engineers’ Academy of Geo-Professionals.

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Chancellor Carney to chair Missouri Energy Summit

Posted by on March 2, 2009

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Missouri S&T Chancellor John F. Carney III will chair a statewide energy summit hosted by the four-campus University of Missouri System April 22-23 in Columbia. Texas oilman T. Boone Pickens, architect of the “Pickens Plan” to reduce U.S. dependence on foreign oil, is the keynote speaker for the event.

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Kiplinger’s again names Missouri S&T a top value

Posted by on February 28, 2009

Missouri University of Science and Technology is again one of the top 100 values in public higher education, according to Kiplinger’s Personal Finance.

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Jay Goff to co-lead national strategic enrollment management conferences

Posted by on February 23, 2009

The American Association of College Registrars and Admissions Officers in Washington, D.C., has appointed Jay W. Goff, vice provost and dean of enrollment management at Missouri University of Science and Technology, as the strategic enrollment management conference coordinator for four-year colleges and universities. The appointment is for the next three years.

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Campus to close interdisciplinary engineering program

Posted by on January 30, 2009

Missouri University of Science and Technology will close its interdisciplinary engineering department at the end of this semester because the department has not met enrollment projections, Missouri S&T Provost Warren K. Wray announced today (Friday, Jan. 30, 2009).

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Students to re-engineer GM car with fuel cell powertrain

Posted by on January 26, 2009

General Motors Corp. and the U.S. Department of Energy recently announced that Missouri University of Science and Technology will be the only U.S. university to receive GM’s new fuel cell powertrain as part of North America’s premier collegiate automotive engineering competition.

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“The Detonators” premieres Jan. 28

Posted by on January 21, 2009

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Wednesday, Jan. 28, is the date for the premiere of “The Detonators,” a new Discovery Channel series featuring an explosives expert from Missouri University of Science and Technology and one of his former students.

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Searching for pervasive computing’s middleware middleman

Posted by on January 15, 2009

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In the business world, computers and the Internet have reduced the need for intermediaries – the so-called “middlemen” that once was so important for making travel plans, purchasing insurance or buying stock. In one field of computer research, however, the quest is on to create just such an intermediary to connect a flood of computerized devices with vast networks of data.

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Paul Hirtz named interim director of student design center

Posted by on December 10, 2008

Dr. Paul Hirtz has been named interim director of Missouri S&T’s Student Design and Experiential Learning Center effective Nov. 26.

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New Discovery Channel series blasts off with Missouri S&T explosives expert

Posted by on December 8, 2008

An explosives expert from Missouri University of Science and Technology has teamed up with one of his former students to co-host a new Discovery Channel series about the engineering of blowing things up.

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