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Missouri S&T invites the public to a community-wide discussion on gene editing
Missouri S&T’s biological sciences department will host a public forum, “Editing our Evolution: Rewriting the Human Genome,” from 6:30–8:30 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 13, at Kaleidoscope Discovery Center, 612 N. Pine St. in Rolla.
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Missouri S&T wins Mineral Water Bowl
It was a long time between bowl games — 68 years, to be exact — but the Missouri S&T Miners proved they were worthy of the post-season on Saturday (Dec. 1, 2018) with a convincing win over the Minnesota State University Moorhead Dragons in the 2018 Mineral Water Bowl.
Read More »Missouri S&T student dies in car accident
Saad Alsaihan, 20, a freshman in petroleum engineering at Missouri University of Science and Technology, died as a result of injuries sustained in a traffic accident on Friday, Nov. 30, 2018. He was from Kuwait City, Kuwait.
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Missouri S&T named nation’s most underrated university
Missouri S&T is the most underrated university in the United States, according to an analysis performed by the business news website Business Insider.
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What does it mean to be a Miner?
For nearly 150 years, our students have been known as the Miners. We asked these six Missouri S&T students to tell us what qualities and characteristics define the term “Miners” in the 21st century, and this is what they said.
Read More »Missouri S&T to honor faculty for excellence
Twenty-eight faculty members from Missouri University of Science and Technology will receive awards for excellence and achievement in teaching, research and service.
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Miner football reaches first post-season bowl since 1950
For the first time since 1950, Missouri S&T’s football team will get an opportunity to play in a post-season bowl game. The Miners have been selected to play in the 53rd Mineral Water Bowl this December.
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Missouri S&T joins national effort to increase college access, graduation
Missouri S&T is part of a new national effort by land-grant universities to increase college access, close the achievement gap and award hundreds of thousands more degrees by 2025.
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Plant detective: Missouri S&T professor studies plants as “bio-sentinels” of indoor pollution
Behold the common house plant, the front-yard shrub, the rhododendron around back that’s seen better days since the next-door neighbors put their home on the market. They brighten our lawns, increase our property values, even boost our mental and physical health by reducing carbon dioxide levels.
For Dr. Joel Burken, such plants are far more valuable than as mere window dressing. The Curators’ Distinguished Professor and chair of civil, architectural and environmental engineering at Missouri University of Science and Technology is an expert in phytoforensics, the process of using plants to study human exposure to pollutants.
A conversation with student veterans
“I’m around a group of true heroes.” That is the first thing Ben Bridges, president of the Student Veteran Association (SVA) at Missouri S&T, says when he’s asked to talk about Missouri S&T students who are also military veterans.
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