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Missouri S&T earns highest research designation from Carnegie Foundation

Posted by on February 13, 2025

Missouri S&T has been classified as one of the nation’s top-tier research institutions and now has a Research 1 (R1) designation, according to the 2025 Carnegie Foundation classifications released today (Feb. 13). S&T is one of 187 institutions out of more than 4,300 nationwide to receive this distinction.

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Curators approve Missouri S&T semiconductor engineering program 

Posted by on February 6, 2025

The University of Missouri Board of Curators unanimously voted today (Feb. 6) to approve a new bachelor’s degree program in semiconductor engineering at Missouri S&T.

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Waste containment expert, NAE member to speak at S&T Feb. 12  

Posted by on February 6, 2025

Dr. Craig Benson, a member of the National Academy of Engineering, will speak at Missouri S&T at 3 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 12, as part of S&T’s Shamsher and Sally Prakash Distinguished Lecture Series. 

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Introducing ‘Batiacasphaera obohikuenobeae’: A species named to honor S&T professor 

Posted by on January 30, 2025

When paleontologists say the name “Oboh-Ikuenobe,” they may now need to clarify whether they mean their colleague, Dr. Francisca Oboh-Ikuenobe, or Batiacasphaera obohikuenobeae, an ancient microscopic fossil species from the Arctic Ocean recently named in her honor. 

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Making waves: S&T researcher awarded $750,000 DOE grant focused on hydropower 

Posted by on January 23, 2025

A Missouri S&T researcher is developing artificial intelligence and computational methods to help hydropower plant operators manage water and energy resources more efficiently and potentially pass on savings to consumers, with a $750,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). 

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Did the COVID-19 lockdowns really affect lunar temperatures?

Posted by on January 21, 2025

Almost five years ago, much of the world went quiet for several weeks due to the COVID-19 lockdowns. It went so quiet, in fact, that scholars published a 2024 article in a Royal Astronomical Society publication claiming the lack of human activity likely led to the Moon’s surface temperatures cooling down in April and May of 2020.

But researchers from Missouri S&T and the University of West Indies (UWI) in St. Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago, are now challenging those findings in a new article published this year in that same journal. 

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Missouri S&T-led critical minerals Tech Hub awarded $28.5 million in federal funds

Posted by on January 15, 2025

A Regional Innovation and Technology Hub (Tech Hub) led by Missouri S&T has secured $28.5 million in implementation funds from the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) for its efforts focused on critical minerals processing.

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S&T professor, alumnus elected Fellow of the Society for Mining, Metallurgy and Exploration  

Posted by on January 7, 2025

Dr. Michael Moats, professor and chair of materials science and engineering at Missouri S&T, has been elected to the Society for Mining, Metallurgy and Exploration (SME) 2025 class of Fellows. 

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S&T freshman engineering, computing course redesigned to include focus on entrepreneurship 

Posted by on January 7, 2025

Over 1,000 engineering and computing students at Missouri S&T began their studies at S&T last semester with a focus on a topic university leaders say will play a growing role in their academic and professional careers — entrepreneurship. 

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Missouri S&T renewable energy expert named IEEE Fellow 

Posted by on December 18, 2024

Dr. Mehdi Ferdowsi, a professor of electrical engineering at Missouri University of Science and Technology, has been named a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).  

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