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World War II historian’s latest book looks at the realities of aerial combat
“Deadly Sky: The American Combat Airman in World War II,” released in a new paperback edition on Tuesday, Aug. 2, takes an in-depth look at the dog fights that took place in the clouds above the European and the Pacific theaters of World War II. The book shares many personal accounts of American combat airmen between 1941 and 1945.
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David Hosick to direct Project Lead The Way at Missouri S&T
David K. Hosick, senior director of school engagement for Project Lead The Way’s west central region, has been named senior director of the Project Lead The Way (PLTW) program at Missouri University of Science and Technology. He takes over for Ben Yates, who will retire in September after serving in the position for the past five years. Hosick’s appointment took effect Monday, Aug. 1
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Campus prepares to become tobacco free
Missouri University of Science and Technology will join over 1,000 other colleges and universities when it becomes a tobacco-free campus next Monday, Aug. 1, 2016).
Read More »Burken takes chair of civil, architectural and environmental engineering department
Dr. Joel Burken, Curators’ Distinguished Professor of civil, architectural and environmental engineering at Missouri University of Science and Technology, is now the department’s chair after signing an agreement on Thursday July 14.
Burken had been the department’s interim chair since December after previously serving as the department’s associate chair. Although his title has changed, he says he’ll still be involved in research and teaching.
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Final Rolla Town Band concert July 21
Hear a mix of marches, pops and classical music this month at the Rolla Town Band’s fourth and final performance of the 2016 season.
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Missouri S&T Solar Car team to race across the country
A group of students from Missouri University of Science and Technology will race a solar-powered car approximately 1,800 miles against teams from around the nation in the American Solar Challenge, a competition for collegiate design teams.
Read More »Elmore named an ASCE Fellow
Curt Elmore Sam O’Keefe/Missouri S&T
Dr. Curt Elmore, professor of geological engineering at Missouri University of Science and Technology, has been named an American Society of Civil Engineers Fellow.
Elmore has spent the last 30 years in the water resources and environmental engineering field. Before joining the Missouri S&T faculty in 2001, he was a consulting engineer specializing in remedial design at large formerly used defense Superfund sites.
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Learn more about biology at Missouri S&T’s BioBuilder workshops
The local community and Missouri K-12 teachers can learn about the importance of synthetic biology and its role in our everyday lives by attending one of a series of hands-on, interactive summer workshop this July at Missouri University of Science and Technology.
Read More »Bartels travels west on ‘Grand Challenge’ topic with EPA
There are few places that have better summers than the United States’ Pacific Northwest. Mild temperatures, clear days, low humidity — and no rain.
Missouri University of Science and Technology student Katherine Bartels, a senior in environmental engineering from Independence, Missouri, is experiencing this year’s Pacific Northwest summer through an Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Greater Research Opportunities (GRO) Fellowship. Bartels is working out of Newport, Oregon, studying salt marshes’ ability to remove nitrogen from the ecosystem.
Read More »S&T doctoral student wins ACI fellowship
Iman Mehdipour, a graduate student pursuing a Ph.D. in civil engineering at Missouri University of Science and Technology, was awarded the 2016-17 American Concrete Institute (ACI) Charles Pankow Student Fellowship.
As part of the award, Mehdipour will receive an educational stipend for tuition, residence, books, materials and paid travel to the next two ACI conventions. Fellowships are offered to high-potential and outstanding graduate students whose research studies relate to concrete engineering and are identified by ACI member faculty.
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