News

S&T student elected to Rolla City Council

Posted by on May 7, 2026

Amelia Markwell, a senior in biological sciences at Missouri S&T, has been elected to the Rolla City Council as a Ward 6 representative. She was sworn in to office on Monday, April 20, and her term will expire in April 2028.

Read More »

NSF program to sponsor Missouri S&T ceramic engineering scholarships

Posted by on May 4, 2026

A National Science Foundation-funded partnership between Missouri S&T and two other U.S. universities aims to help address a national shortage of ceramic engineers.

Read More »

Missouri S&T researchers identify carbon release risk tied to rising seas

Posted by on May 1, 2026

Rising sea levels could do more than flood coastlines. Research from Missouri S&T shows they may also trigger the release of large amounts of carbon stored in coastal ecosystems into the atmosphere. 

Read More »

Supersonic success: S&T scholars sharpen wind tunnel simulations

Posted by on May 1, 2026

Researchers at Missouri S&T have developed a more accurate way to predict conditions inside wind tunnels that are used to study how air behaves at speeds up to four times faster than the speed of sound, or over 3,000 miles per hour. 

Read More »

Go with the flow: I&E Fellow hopes to solve water challenges

Posted by on May 1, 2026

Effat Eskandari’s research journey begins with a simple curiosity about something that most people take for granted: fresh water.

Read More »

João Vieira’s journey to America as soccer standout and top student

Posted by on May 1, 2026

Growing up in Brazil and Uruguay, João Vieira’s dream since childhood was to play soccer in America. 

That passion eventually carried him thousands of miles to the United States, where he’s now a top player for the Missouri S&T Miners soccer team and maintaining a 4.0 GPA majoring in economics.

Read More »

Missouri S&T professor receives Wound Healing Society’s Early-Career faculty award  

Posted by on April 30, 2026

Dr. Fateme Fayyazbakhsh, an assistant professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at Missouri S&T, was awarded the Wound Healing Society’s 2026 Early-Career Faculty Award during the organization’s annual meeting held earlier this month in Charlotte, North Carolina. 

Read More »

Missouri S&T alumnus Lister Florence takes the reins as Rolla mayor

Posted by on April 30, 2026

In 1986, Lister B. Florence Jr. began taking classes as a first-year civil engineering student at Missouri University of Science and Technology. Nearly 40 years later, Florence is now a three-time graduate of S&T and the newly elected mayor of Rolla, Missouri.

Read More »

Environmental scientist Robin Verble named a Fulbright Scholar

Posted by on April 30, 2026

Dr. Robin Verble, professor of biological sciences at Missouri S&T, will spend part of this coming summer helping expand biodiversity in insect populations in Ecuador as a 2026-27 Fulbright U.S. Scholar.

Read More »

Missouri S&T student named Schlumberger Foundation fellow 

Posted by on April 28, 2026

Ellen Essien, a Ph.D. student in mining engineering at Missouri S&T, has been named a 2026 Faculty for the Future Fellow by the Schlumberger Foundation. 

Read More »