Author: Patrick Collins
Missouri S&T alumnus contributes $12.5 million to establish business school
Missouri S&T alumnus Dennis Jaggi and his wife, Janet, have made a transformational gift of $12.5 million to create the Dennis and Janet Jaggi School of Business. When it launches in the coming year, the school will be dedicated to teaching future leaders financial accounting and business acumen needed to grow companies, accelerate economic development, and strengthen their communities.
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S&T alumnus Gene Gowins establishes $2.1 million permanent endowment for physics students
Gene Gowins, who studied physics at Missouri S&T in the early 1960s, has established a $2.1 million permanent endowment to help physics students succeed, a gift he says was inspired by both the values he learned growing up during the Great Depression and his passion for physics.
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Two new members welcomed to Missouri S&T’s Board of Trustees
Missouri S&T’s Board of Trustees welcomed new members Rusty Keeley and Breck Washam during its fall meeting on Sept. 19 in the university’s Welcome Center.
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S&T graduate Megan Gegesky explores new territory within long-standing traditions
Megan Gegesky, a second-generation Missouri S&T graduate, is following two paths that don’t normally merge. She’s continuing a family tradition started by her great-great grandfather, and she’s working on what may represent the future of the automotive industry.
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Missouri S&T’s Board of Trustees welcomes new members
Missouri University of Science and Technlogy’s Board of Trustees wlecomed six new members during its spring meeting, held last week on campus in conjunction with the Bioplex groundbreaking ceremony and the quarterly meeting of the Kummer Missouri S&T Foundation Board of Directors.
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An opportunity to contribute knowledge to the scientific community
After completing his Ph.D. in industrial chemistry in Nigeria, his home country, Dr. Ugochukwu Ewuzie worked as a laboratory scientist for a global energy company. Spending his days working on synthetic fuels and waste created by various refining processes, Ewuzie began to wonder not just how to reuse those waste byproducts but how to reuse them in a way that’s good for the environment. That’s where the road to Missouri S&T and his second Ph.D., this one in chemical engineering, began to pave itself in concrete—literally.
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The freedom to explore
Conleigh Hardin, a senior in civil engineering from Austin, Texas, attended a large high school but was in a program with fewer than 200 students. She liked the scaled down, personal feeling of it, and when it was time to decide on a college, she chose Missouri S&T for its size relative to the huge engineering colleges closer to home.
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Environmentally minded Ph.D. student developing long-last batteries that bring more power to smaller spaces
When Gracie Boyer was a child, one of the many questions she asked her father, a diesel mechanic, was how their refrigerator worked. After he explained, she had several follow-up questions, including: How would it function if the external temperature was dramatically higher due to the world being on fire? Could an appliance maintain a consistent temperature internally when subjected to extreme fluctuations externally?
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First Solar supports Missouri S&T efforts to secure critical materials supply chains
First Solar, Inc. has established the Endowed Professorship in Critical Energy Materials in the materials science and engineering department at Missouri S&T. The decision to endow a professorship reflects the strategic alignment between the two organizations, which have collaborated on critical minerals, particularly tellurium, for the past decade.
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Dan Bailey begins term as Miner Alumni Association president
Dan Bailey of Fairway, Kansas, who earned a bachelor’s degree in geological engineering in 2003 and a master’s degree in engineering management in 2005, became president of the Miner Alumni Association Oct. 26, during Missouri S&T’s Homecoming festivities on the Rolla campus. Bailey replaces Dr. Chris Ramsay, who served as president for the past two years.
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