Author: Mary Helen Stoltz

Missouri S&T awards professional degrees

Posted by on December 17, 2012

Missouri University of Science and Technology awarded six honorary professional degrees during winter commencement ceremonies held Friday, Dec. 14, and Saturday, Dec. 15. The degrees recognize the outstanding Missouri S&T graduates for professional achievement.

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Truitt to speak at S&T commencement

Posted by on December 5, 2012

Roger E. Truitt of Paducah, Ky., retired senior vice president of the energy company ARCO and retired president of ARCO Products Co., will be the commencement speaker during two graduation ceremonies at Missouri University of Science and Technology in December.

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Garmin to open facility in S&T Technology Development Center

Posted by on December 3, 2012

Garmin International Inc. is expanding its engineering internship program through the opening of a new software engineering facility at Missouri University of Science and Technology. The facility is designed to support semester-long part-time internships throughout the school year and full-time internships during the summer.

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34 S&T faculty members honored for outstanding teaching

Posted by on November 20, 2012

Thirty-four Missouri University of Science and Technology faculty members will receive the Outstanding Teaching Award for 2011-2012. The winners will be recognized at a ceremony scheduled from 3-4 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 28, in St. Pat’s Ballroom B of the Havener Center. The Outstanding Teaching Award is given each year to faculty members by the Outstanding Teaching Award Committee, which bases its selections on student evaluations.

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Missouri S&T student killed in traffic accident

Posted by on November 9, 2012

Aaron Richard Cobb, 21, a senior in civil engineering at Missouri University of Science and Technology, was killed early this morning (Friday, Nov. 9) in a traffic accident on 18th Street in Rolla. He was from Olathe, Kan.

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S&T faculty to receive excellence awards

Posted by on November 1, 2012

Five faculty members at Missouri University of Science and Technology will receive Faculty Excellence Awards at a ceremony scheduled for Tuesday, Feb. 12, 2013.

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S&T to host lecture on women in computing

Posted by on November 1, 2012

Dr. Marie Hicks, assistant professor of history at Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago, will present a lecture about the history of women in computing at Missouri University of Science and Technology on Nov. 9.

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Route 66 author to speak at S&T Thursday

Posted by on October 30, 2012

Rolla native Michael Lund, an author of nine novels about Route 66 and the generation that came of age in the Midwest in the ’50s and ’60s, will speak on the Missouri University of Science and Technology campus at 3:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 1. The lecture will be held in Room 201 Humanities-Social Sciences Building.

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Mummy unwrapping brought Egyptology to the public

Posted by on October 29, 2012

Mummies have been objects of horror in popular culture since the early 1800s — more than a century before Boris Karloff portrayed an ancient Egyptian searching for his lost love in the 1932 film “The Mummy.” Public “unwrappings” of real mummified human remains performed by both showmen and scientists heightened the fascination, but also helped develop the growing science of Egyptology, says a Missouri University of Science and Technology historian.

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S&T historian to receive state book award

Posted by on October 26, 2012

Dr. Petra DeWitt, assistant teaching professor in history and political science at Missouri University of Science and Technology, has been chosen to receive the 2012 Missouri History Book Award from the State Historical Society of Missouri.

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