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