Research
77 researchers affiliated with Missouri S&T among top 2% in their fields for career and single-year impact
Sixty-five current and former faculty of Missouri University of Science and Technology are among the top researchers in their field as measured by their career research records, and 12 other current or former Missouri S&T researchers were among the best in their fields in 2021, according to a recent analysis by Stanford University.
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Missouri’s contributions to WWI war effort examined in new book
During World War I, Missouri was one of many states that established a defense organization to take over the duties of the National Guard, which had joined frontline military service. In her new book The Missouri Home Guard: Protecting the Home Front during the Great War, Missouri S&T historian Dr. Petra DeWitt examines this volunteer Home Guard’s full role, including its ability to preserve patriotism and reduce opposition to the war.
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Missouri S&T CO2 research is rock solid
As climate change accelerates, scientists are investigating ways to lower carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. At Missouri S&T, researchers are developing solutions by turning CO2 into rock.
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S&T researchers’ study of human-robot interactions an early step in creating future robot “guides”
A new study by Missouri S&T researchers shows how human subjects, walking hand-in-hand with a robot guide, stiffen or relax their arms at different times during the walk. The researchers’ analysis of these movements could aid in the design of smarter, more humanlike robot guides and assistants. “This work presents the first measurement and analysis […]
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Missouri S&T researchers win funding to improve kidney transplant process
With close to 100,000 people in the U.S. waiting for a kidney transplant and up to 20 percent of donated kidneys discarded for various reasons, fine-tuning the matchmaking between donated kidneys and transplant centers is a significant challenge. Researchers at Missouri S&T are investigating the ways artificial intelligence (AI) can support the process.
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Missouri S&T researcher wins NIH career development award to investigate connection between race and hypertension
Dr. Jinling Liu, assistant professor of engineering management and systems engineering, is the first S&T researcher to receive a K01 award. The highly competitive award from the National Institutes of Health provides support to early career researchers.
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$2 million FAA grant supports study of sustainable aviation fuels at Missouri S&T
The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) recently awarded a $2.05 million grant to a Missouri S&T researcher to study how different types of sustainable aviation fuels could reduce greenhouse gas emissions from airplanes. Dr. Philip Whitefield, Curators’ Distinguished Professor emeritus of chemistry at Missouri S&T, received the funding through the FAA’s Aviation Sustainability Center (ASCENT), […]
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New book ‘Roadhouse Justice’ focuses on true crime
In his latest book, Roadhouse Justice: Hattie Lee Barnes and the Killing of a White Man in 1950s Mississippi, historian Trent Brown weaves a story of injustice, civil rights and the southern legal system. This is Brown’s second book about true crime in the South, and he says the story picks up right where his previous book left off.
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Sparking the next big idea
Designing glass to engineer heart tissue. Creating hubs for hydrogen energy. Delivering cancer treatment to patients in rural areas. These innovations and more could result from a new program designed to support S&T researchers’ big ideas — with small amounts of seed funding. In its first year, the Kummer Institute invested $500,000 in 17 S&T […]
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Missouri S&T researcher wins NSF grant to help reduce pollution
Dr. Abhijit Gosavi, associate professor of engineering management and systems engineering at Missouri S&T, has been awarded a grant by the National Science Foundation. The grant – titled “Collaborative Research: Continuous-State Reinforcement Learning for Remanufacturing” – provides nearly three years of funding.
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