Author: Delia Croessmann
Emeritus professor James O. Stoffer establishes endowed professorship in polymer chemistry
Dr. James O. Stoffer, Curators’ Distinguished Professor emeritus of chemistry at Missouri S&T, has donated a $550,000 gift of patent royalties to establish a professorship in polymer chemistry in his home department. Matched by funds from the university’s Kummer Inspiration Program, the $1.1 million James O. Stoffer Endowed Professorship in Polymer Chemistry will also support […]
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Mining entrepreneur makes his own luck, shares his good fortune
“We need more mining engineers than ever before,” says Missouri S&T alumnus George Webber. “Everything in this world is based on minerals — including today’s need for the key minerals that make lithium-ion batteries for electric vehicles and other clean energy devices.”
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$423 million in gifts and record fundraising year conclude S&T’s Rolla Rising campaign
A multiyear fundraising initiative, Rolla Rising: The Campaign for Missouri University of Science and Technology, began in 2016 with a $150 million funding goal and ended June 30, 2021, with a record-breaking $423.4 million in gifts, Joan Nesbitt, vice chancellor of University Advancement at Missouri S&T, announced today (Thursday, Sept. 30).
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Missouri S&T receives $2.5 million gift from Nucor Corp.
Missouri S&T has received a $2.5 million gift from Nucor Corp., the largest steel producer in the United States and North America’s largest recycler.
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Gary Havener makes $6 million dual-purpose contribution to Missouri S&T
Missouri S&T alumnus Gary Havener recently committed $6 million to Missouri S&T to support the university’s new Arrival District and to establish the Gary W. Havener Endowed Chair in Mathematics and Statistics.
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Mathematics major first S&T graduate to commission into US Space Force
Cory Chafin has become the first graduate of Missouri S&T to commission into the United States Space Force, the sixth branch of the U.S. armed forces that was established Dec. 20, 2019.
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A promise kept
Tracy Carpenter Bond knows something about tenacity. In the face of dire circumstances that most of us have not experienced, Bond completed her master of science degree in industrial-organizational psychology in December 2020 and was selected as one of three Missouri S&T graduation speakers.
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Missouri S&T global engineering student featured in national language learning campaign
Jessi Schoolcraft, a junior at Missouri University of Science and Technology from Willard, Missouri, is the subject of an interview about the benefits of combining an engineering education with foreign language skills and cross-cultural experiences on the national “Lead with Languages” campaign website.
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Researchers validate theory that neutrinos shape the universe
The effect that nearly massless, subatomic particles called neutrinos have on the formation of galaxies has long been a cosmological mystery — one that physicists have sought to measure since discovering the particles in 1956. But an international research team has created cosmological simulations that accurately depict the role of neutrinos in the evolution of […]
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First-year scholars undeterred by unusual beginning
First-year students Garrett Blum and Hannah Tillery, Missouri S&T’s inaugural Evans Dean’s Scholars, have chosen different academic paths, but their life histories and achievements are noticeably parallel.
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Sports Headlines
- S&T cross country teams earn academic honors from USTFCCCA
- S&T track & field squad nets five CSC Academic All-District selections
- Five Miners land on CSC Academic All-District track & field squad
- S&T’s Hampton earns ABCA/Rawlings All-Midwest Region first team honors
- Swadley takes fifth in shot put, earns fourth career All-America award