Research

Materials can come from the mind, not just the mines

Posted by on February 1, 2008

Dr. Julia E. Medvedeva, assistant professor of physics at Missouri University of Science and Technology, believes materials can come from the mind, not just the mines.

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Building blocks go green at Missouri S&T

Posted by on January 31, 2008

Dr. John Myers, associate professor of civil, architectural and environmental engineering at Missouri University of Science and Technology, is developing an environmentally friendly construction material with advantages over traditional clay bricks and concrete masonry blocks.

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Missouri S&T gets a microscope that magnifies objects a million

Posted by on January 31, 2008

Missouri University of Science and Technology has a new research toy — a focused ion beam (FIB) scanning electron microscope that is capable of shrinking images of objects a million times and then etching them on the head of a pin.         

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Researchers at Missouri S&T plan to help maximize the state’s

Posted by on January 29, 2008

Dr. Scott Grasman, associate professor of engineering management and systems engineering at Missouri University of Science and Technology, is helping the Missouri Department of Transportation (MoDOT) develop software to assess future projects involving the state’s waterways.

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Missouri S&T researchers developing aircraft emissions testing

Posted by on January 22, 2008

Researchers at Missouri University of Science and Technology have been awarded a $579,951 grant from the Naval Air War Center to study aviation emissions at the university’s Center of Excellence for Aerospace Particulate Emissions Research.

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Missouri S&T chemist developing treatment for HIV-related dementia

Posted by on January 14, 2008

A National Institutes of Health grant is helping fund a Missouri University of Science and Technology chemist’s research into the treatment of HIV-1 associated dementia.

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Research team developing amphibian anatomy ontology

Posted by on December 19, 2007

A group of faculty and students in the biological and computer sciences departments at the University of Missouri-Rolla are working with experts from around the world to develop a formal vocabulary, called an ontology, to describe the anatomy of more than 6,200 species of amphibians.

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Students give Roombas reason to roam

Posted by on December 19, 2007

Graduate students in the Real-Time Power and Intelligent Systems (RTPIS) Laboratory at the University of Missouri-Rolla are using an ordinary household appliance to develop and test a technology that could do extraordinary things.

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Professor researches communication chains in the cattle industry

Posted by on December 19, 2007

What do cattle and technology have in common? Plenty, if you talk to Dr. David Wright, a professor of English and technical communication at the University of Missouri-Rolla. For the past three years, Wright has been studying the cattle industry and developing a communications model from his research.

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The next wave of tsunami research

Posted by on December 11, 2007

University of Missouri-Rolla civil engineering senior Adedotun Moronkeji, 30, is part of the next wave of tsunami research.

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