With no known cases of COVID-19 on campus at the time, Missouri S&T’s 2020 cancellation of its iconic St. Pat’s celebration seemed extreme to some, but that March 11 announcement occurred on the same day the World Health Organization declared the coronavirus a global pandemic.
Read More »Missouri University of Science and Technology’s archives department is jointly hosting the Smithsonian poster exhibition “Righting a Wrong: Japanese Americans and World War II” from now until Nov. 13, 2020. In collaboration with the State Historical Society of Missouri – Rolla (SHSMO Rolla), the university is displaying the posters on the second floor of the […]
Read More »Attaining hypersonic flight – the ability to fly and maneuver at more than five times the speed of sound – is a priority for the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) as it works to modernize the military and weapons systems. Materials engineering researchers at Missouri S&T are part of a multi-university team working to develop training programs for the future hypersonic workforce.
Read More »With a gift of $250,000, Missouri S&T history alumnus Cordell Smith has established the university’s first endowment to fund the research efforts of S&T history and political science faculty. The Lawrence O. Christensen Endowed Faculty Fellowship honors late Missouri historian and S&T professor Dr. Lawrence Christensen.
Read More »Missouri S&T will soon welcome mining engineering students from Ecuador in the culmination of an over-five-year effort to bring students to Rolla. Administrators from Missouri S&T began visiting Ecuador in 2014 and signed a transfer agreement in 2017 with Universidad San Francisco de Quito (USFQ) to bring students interested in mining to Rolla. The exchange […]
Read More »Dr. Rainer Weiss, winner of the 2017 Nobel Prize in physics, will present a virtual physics colloquium titled “Beginnings of gravitational wave astronomy: current state and future” at 4 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 5.
Read More »Missouri S&T Chancellor Mo Dehghani’s second State of the University address to the campus and community has been rescheduled to 11 a.m.-noon Thursday, Nov. 5, on Zoom. The event is free and open to the public. Dehghani plans to discuss how two recent donations to the university will help shape Missouri S&T as a “destination […]
Read More »Teaching looks wholly different this year at universities across the nation as higher education grapples with COVID-19. At Missouri S&T, some faculty are employing their creativity and flexibility to ensure students are learning safely.
Read More »The American Society for Engineering Management (ASEM) has named retired Army Lt. Gen. Joe Ballard, an alumnus of Missouri S&T, its 2020 Engineering Manager of the Year.
Read More »The nuclear engineering program at Missouri S&T is gaining a higher profile as a new academic department: nuclear engineering and radiation science.
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