Author: Mary Helen Stoltz
Innovation grant provides iPads to Missouri S&T writing tutors
Thanks to strategic funding from a new grant program at Missouri University of Science and Technology, the Missouri S&T Writing Center will integrate wireless technology into face-to-face student tutoring this fall to streamline the process and improve the learning experience for both students and tutors.
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Fall enrollment at Missouri S&T again breaks records
For the second year in a row, Missouri University of Science and Technology has broken enrollment records. The fall 2014 enrollment at Missouri S&T, officially recorded at the end of the semester’s fourth week, is 8,642. This is the highest enrollment in the university’s history, up 6.3 percent from the official fall 2013 figure, says Deanne Jackson, Missouri S&T registrar.
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KMST releases fall membership drive results
Despite fundraising totals that fell short of the station’s $70,000 goal, public radio station KMST considers its Fall Membership Drive a success.
Read More »Missouri S&T police earn IACLEA re-accreditation
The police department at Missouri University of Science and Technology has been re-accredited by the International Association of Campus Law Enforcement Administrators Inc. (IACLEA), an association that represents campus public safety leaders at more than 1,200 institutions of higher education.
Read More »Ground troops are key to wartime success, says S&T historian
Air strikes never fully succeed in winning a war, says military historian John C. McManus, a professor of history and political science at Missouri University of Science and Technology. He says American troops on the ground have proven throughout recent history to be the crucial difference between victory and defeat.
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Missouri S&T to celebrate Constitution Day
The history and political science department at Missouri University of Science and Technology is sponsoring a Constitution Day celebration at noon Wednesday, Sept. 17, in the Havener Center on the Missouri S&T campus.
Read More »Missouri S&T begins STEM-focused elementary ed program this fall
Students interested in teaching 1st through 6th grades can register for a new program beginning this fall at Missouri University of Science and Technology. The new elementary education program will prepare students for teaching careers that emphasize science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM).
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‘Cyber Week’ to kick off KMST membership drive and new ‘pet project’
Public radio station KMST’s annual fall membership drive will kick off with Cyber Week Sept. 6-12 on its website, kmst.org, followed by the station’s on-air portion of the membership drive, which will be held Sept. 13-21. The goal of the fall membership drive is $70,000.
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Ph.D. in explosives engineering offered this fall at Missouri S&T
Missouri University of Science and Technology will offer the nation’s first Ph.D. in explosives engineering beginning this fall. The new doctorate will help the university fill critical shortfalls in government and industry. In the mining industry alone, more than 5,000 engineers will retire in the next decade.
Read More »Missouri S&T Engineering Education Center turns 50
Fifty years ago this September, Missouri University of Science and Technology’s Engineering Education Center in St. Louis, known then as the Graduate Engineering Center, opened with nothing but a borrowed desk in an office above a drug store across the street from the newly established University of Missouri-St. Louis campus.
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