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Delbert Day to receive Phoenix Award
Dr. Delbert Day, Curators’ Professor emeritus of materials science and engineering at Missouri University of Science and Technology, has been named the 2010 Phoenix Award Glass Person of the Year, the glass industry’s top honor. The Phoenix Award is given annually to a living person who has made outstanding contributions to the industry.
Read More »S&T to host FIRST Tech Challenge statewide robotics competition
Missouri University of Science and Technology has been selected to host a statewide robotics competition for high school students – the FIRST Tech Challenge (FTC) – over the next three years, beginning next February.
Read More »Employers prepare to recruit S&T students
More than 180 employers will be recruiting students from Missouri University of Science and Technology during S&T’s fall career fair Tuesday, Sept. 21.
Read More »S&T employees to get incentives in wellness challenge
Missouri University of Science and Technology faculty and staff will have new incentives to get healthy in a new wellness challenge. The program, called Miners on the Move, begins on Wednesday, Sept. 15.
Read More »Nuclear engineering program at S&T to celebrate 50th anniversary
The nuclear engineering program at Missouri University of Science and Technology will be observing its 50th anniversary Sept. 17-18. The university started offering accredited undergraduate nuclear engineering degrees in 1960. Master’s and Ph.D. degrees in nuclear engineering have been offered since 1959 and 1965, respectively. The nuclear reactor on campus, the first in the state of Missouri, has also been in operation for approximately 50 years.
Read More »Enrollment exceeds 7,000
Missouri University of Science and Technology has seen its enrollment rise for the seventh consecutive year, even though the university limited enrollment into its nationally recognized freshman engineering program.
Read More »Experimental Mine tops Popular Science’s ‘awesome labs’ rankings
The Experimental Mine at Missouri University of Science and Technology – home to a popular summer Explosives Camp for high school juniors and seniors – tops a list of 30 Awesome College Labs as determined by Popular Science magazine. The rankings appear in the magazine’s September issue.
Design Center construction to result in traffic disruptions
Traffic along southbound portions of U.S. Highway 63 (Bishop Avenue) between 10th and 11th streets will be affected beginning Tuesday, Aug. 24, due to construction work at the Miner Recreation Building of Missouri University of Science and Technology.
Read More »Starting salaries remain strong for S&T grads
Graduates of Missouri University of Science and Technology earn some of the highest starting salaries in the nation, according to a recent report by Payscale Inc., a Seattle-based research firm.
Read More »S&T historian: ‘Grunts,’ not technology, win wars
Despite the U.S. military’s reliance on technology in modern warfare, American troops on the ground – the “grunts” – have proven to be the crucial difference between victory and defeat, says military historian John C. McManus in a new book about America’s ground forces.
