Research
Below the surface: S&T professor receives CAREER Award for underwater wireless communications
Dr. Rosa Zheng, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering at Missouri University of Science and Technology, recently received a CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation to support her work on improving underwater wireless communications.
Read More »Searching for pervasive computing’s middleware middleman
In the business world, computers and the Internet have reduced the need for intermediaries – the so-called “middlemen” that once was so important for making travel plans, purchasing insurance or buying stock. In one field of computer research, however, the quest is on to create just such an intermediary to connect a flood of computerized devices with vast networks of data.
Read More »New sensors capable of measuring damage to infrastructure
Dr. Genda Chen, professor of civil, architectural and environmental engineering at Missouri University of Science and Technology, was recently awarded a patent for “Strain Sensitive Coax Cable Sensors for Monitoring Structures.”
Read More »S&T receives EPA grants for solar research
Missouri University of Science and Technology was recently awarded two $10,000 grants from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for research related to solar energy and energy management.
Read More »Bond secures $1.66 million for S&T plug-in hybrid project
U.S. Sen. Kit Bond has secured $1.66 million from the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) to fund a partnership between Missouri University of Science and Technology and the Kansas City, Mo., government to provide clean battery-powered transit vehicles to the city.
Read More »New center at S&T focuses on bioactive ways to repair bones and tissue
At Missouri University of Science and Technology, there’s a new focus on finding ways to help the body fix itself. The Center for Bone and Tissue Repair and Regeneration officially opened on campus in January of 2008.
Read More »S&T researcher publishes book about good old boys, rednecks and southern gentlemen
Dr. Trent Watts, assistant professor in the department of English and technical communication at Missouri University of Science and Technology, recently published a book titled White Masculinity in the Recent South.
Read More »S&T researcher to study the American flapper at Harvard
Dr. Kate Drowne, an associate professor of English and technical communication at Missouri University of Science and Technology, has recently been granted a non-residential fellowship at Harvard University to extend her research on the flapper figure in American literature.
Read More »Researchers show how green slime could help save the world
Several glass containers filled with algae-stained water sit on a table in Dr. Paul Nam’s laboratory at Missouri University of Science and Technology. Next to the big green bottles are two much smaller vials. One of the vials, labeled “biodiesel,” contains a mostly clear solution. Nam picks up the other vial, labeled “algae oil,” and gives it a shake. A small amount of dark liquid swishes around.
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