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Volunteers needed for girls’ conference at Missouri S&T
Women are needed as volunteers to serve as guides for attendees of the annual Expanding Your Horizons (EYH) conference that will be held Friday, Nov. 20, on the campus of Missouri University of Science and Technology.
Read More »Spehr talks about unexpected career in seventh O’Keefe Lecture
James L. Spehr, retired metallurgical engineer and alumnus of Missouri University of Science and Technology, will present a lecture in the seventh annual Dr. Thomas J. O’Keefe Lecture Series, presented by the Missouri S&T department of materials science and engineering.
Spehr’s presentation, “An Unexpected Career,” will be held at 3:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 22, in Planje Auditorium, 204 McNutt Hall. The lecture is free and open to the public.
Read More »Missouri S&T mine rescue teams take on pros
Missouri University of Science and Technology recently hosted a competition designed to simulate a mine emergency. University teams competed alongside teams from industry, including Doe Run, Vulcan Materials Co. and the U.S. Department of Energy’s Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP).
Other collegiate teams competing were the Colorado School of Mines and Penn State University. In all, 21 teams competed.
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Missouri S&T scholar named research ambassador for German agency
Dr. David Westenberg, an associate professor of biological sciences and chemical and biochemical engineering at Missouri University of Science and Technology, has been named a research ambassador for the German Academic Exchange Service (Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst).
Read More »Missouri S&T kicks off Sarchet seminar series
In advance of its 50th anniversary in fall 2016, the engineering management and systems engineering department at Missouri University of Science and Technology is launching the Bernie Sarchet Graduate Seminar Series.
The series is named after Dr. Bernie Sarchet, who joined Missouri S&T in the mid-1960s as the founding chair of the engineering management department.
Read More »Asphalt conference paves the way at Missouri S&T
Missouri University of Science and Technology will host its 58th annual Asphalt Conference on November 9-10.
The conference should be of interest to contractors, public agencies, consulting engineers, testing labs, aggregate producers, asphalt binder suppliers and equipment technical reps. Personal Development Hours (PDH) will be awarded.
Read More »Missouri S&T plans to become tobacco-free by July 1, 2016
By July 1, 2016, Missouri University of Science and Technology intends to join more than 1,000 other colleges and universities in the U.S. by becoming a tobacco-free campus.
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Missouri S&T iGEM team earns bronze medal
Missouri University of Science and Technology’s chapter of iGEM, the International Genetically Engineered Machine Foundation, has earned a bronze medal at the iGEM 2015 Giant Jamboree, held Sept. 24-28 in Boston. The team earned the medal for its work to combat white-nose syndrome, a disease that has killed millions of bats and threatens to disrupt the ecosystem.
Read More »Fall enrollment at Missouri S&T again breaks records
For the third year in a row, Missouri University of Science and Technology has broken enrollment records. The fall 2015 enrollment at Missouri S&T, officially recorded at the end of the semester’s fourth week, is 8,889. This is the highest enrollment in the university’s history, up 2.9 percent from the official fall 2014 figure, says Deanne Jackson, Missouri S&T registrar.
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Missouri S&T solar house travels to California for competition
A team of students at Missouri University of Science and Technology spent two years designing and building a solar-powered house filled with smart-living technology. Once it was complete, the students cut it into pieces and shipped it to California on four semitrailers to compete in an international building competition.
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