Author: Mary Helen Stoltz
34 S&T faculty members honored for outstanding teaching
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 »Missouri S&T student killed in traffic accident
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 »S&T faculty to receive excellence awards
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 »S&T to host lecture on women in computing
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 »Route 66 author to speak at S&T Thursday
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 »Mummy unwrapping brought Egyptology to the public
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 »S&T historian to receive state book award
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.
Read More »Alumna and Woman Student of the Year winners announced
The Missouri University of Science and Technology Alumna and Woman Student of the Year Committee announced its 2012 award winners during a ceremony held on campus Oct. 11. The awards are given to alumna and women students who are dedicated to enhancing the lives of women and committed to diversity.
Read More »S&T researcher to discuss Icelandic folklore in Oct. 25 lecture
Norse paganism, mythology, folklore and conversion to Christianity are the subjects of a talk to be presented on the Missouri University of Science and Technology campus later this month.
Read More »Former student athletes inducted into the Academy of Miner Athletics
A group of 11 former student-athletes at Missouri S&T as well as four others with ties to the university’s athletic program were inducted into the Academy of Miner Athletics on Friday, Oct. 12.
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