Author: Linda Fulps
Staff member collaborates on crime novel
This month, Nathan Weaver and four other writers published a collaborative crime novel through Lulu.com, titled Fatal Flaws. Besides Weaver, a videographer, the eclectic group includes a British accountant and published author, a professor from Chicago, a high school senior from Indiana and a soldier.
Read More »Free film festival to include French selections this spring at S&T
Five selections from The Tournées Festival, a grant program that brings the best of contemporary French cinema to university campuses, will be a part of the Free Spring 2012 Film Festival at Missouri University of Science and Technology this season. The festival features a total of 14 acclaimed films.
Read More »Innovative ballet troupe to visit campus Jan. 17
James Sewell, called one of American ballet’s most inventive choreographers by a New York Times reviewer, will bring his dance company to Missouri University of Science and Technology on Tuesday, Jan. 17, 2012. A part of Missouri S&T’s Campus Performing Arts Series, the performance will be held at 7:30 p.m. in Leach Theatre of Castleman Hall on the university campus, 10th and Main streets in Rolla.
50 years later, S&T historian finds out what happened in Vegas
“What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas” may be the city’s motto, but as Dr. Larry Gragg can testify, discovering what happened years ago in Las Vegas just takes some digging.
Read More »23 faculty to receive awards at S&T
Twenty-three Missouri University of Science and Technology faculty members will receive the Faculty Achievement, Research, Service or Teaching Award for 2011. Each award winner receives a $1,000 stipend funded by industry and alumni contributions. An awards ceremony will be held on Tuesday, Feb. 7.
Read More »Win a Kindle Fire in KMST’s holiday giveaway
Public radio station KMST is holding a cyber-giveaway of a Kindle Fire for the holiday season. Register online at www.kmst.org by midnight on Dec. 31.
Read More »S&T students build hybrid go-kart
While General Motors recently came out with its Chevrolet Volt, four electrical engineering students at Missouri University of Science and Technology just completed their own vehicle, a hybrid go-kart.
Read More »S&T grad student receives excellence award at national conference
Uttam Chowdhury, a PhD student in physics at Missouri University of Science and Technology, won the Gaseous Electronics Conference (GEC) Student Award for Excellence at the 64th annual GEC held in Salt Lake City in November. The title of his winning presentation was “Fully Differential Cross Sections for Four-Body Charge Exchange Processes.”
Read More »Original ‘Grinch’ to be shown at S&T
Missouri University of Science and Technology will offer a screening of the classic Warner Brothers animated cartoon “How the Grinch Stole Christmas” at 11 a.m. Saturday, Dec. 10. The film will be shown in Leach Theatre of Missouri S&T’s Castleman Hall, 10th and Main streets in Rolla, Mo., as part of the Leach Theatre Family Film Series.
Read More »Missouri S&T professor to speak at National Archives Dec. 6
Dr. John C. McManus, associate professor of history and political science at Missouri University of Science and Technology, will speak at the new National Archives in St. Louis on Tuesday, Dec. 6. McManus is one of three panelists who will contribute to a panel discussion titled “Remembering Pearl Harbor: 70 Years Later.”
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