One year later, $300 million gift from June and Fred Kummer yielding big results

Posted by on October 6, 2021

Fred and June Kummer discuss their transformative $300 million gift to Missouri S&T in this October 2020 video. When the couple behind the world’s largest builder of hospitals announced their donation of $300 million to Missouri S&T last October, Chancellor Mo Dehghani called the gift “transformative for S&T, the Rolla region and our state.” One […]

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Missouri S&T sends two teams to ROTC Ranger Challenge

Posted by on October 6, 2021

Twenty-one ROTC students from Missouri S&T will head to Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri, on Friday, Oct. 15, to push themselves to the limits in a three-day competition against teams from seven other Midwestern universities. The team that wins the ROTC Ranger Challenge will advance to the broader regional round.

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Missouri S&T students nominated for Homecoming royalty

Posted by on October 5, 2021

Sixteen students at Missouri S&T will compete for the titles of 2021 Homecoming King and Homecoming Queen.

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Missouri S&T honors distinguished alumni, faculty during Homecoming 2021

Posted by on October 1, 2021

Seven people affiliated with Missouri S&T will be honored for overall excellence and for service to their professions, communities and the world at large during the Miner Alumni Association’s Homecoming celebration this month. Honorees from 2020 will also be recognized during the association’s Legends Luncheon on Friday, Oct. 8, at Hasselmann Alumni House. 

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Pernicka named Curators’ Distinguished Teaching Professor

Posted by on October 1, 2021

Dr. Henry Pernicka, professor of aerospace engineering and Dean’s Educator Scholar at Missouri S&T, has been named Curators’ Distinguished Teaching Professor by the University of Missouri Board of Curators.

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Nancy Stone elected fellow of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society

Posted by on October 1, 2021

The Human Factors and Ergonomics Society (HFES) has elected Dr. Nancy Stone, professor of psychological science at Missouri S&T, as a fellow of its 2021 class.

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S&T researchers use historical sea-level rise to estimate effects of ice-dam collapse

Posted by on September 30, 2021

How widespread will the effects be as polar ice caps melt in a warming climate and release fresh water into our oceans? An international research group led by Missouri S&T researchers may have found some answers after investigating a lake on the Caribbean coast of Guatemala.

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$423 million in gifts and record fundraising year conclude S&T’s Rolla Rising campaign

Posted by on September 30, 2021

A multiyear fundraising initiative, Rolla Rising: The Campaign for Missouri University of Science and Technology, began in 2016 with a $150 million funding goal and ended June 30, 2021, with a record-breaking $423.4 million in gifts, Joan Nesbitt, vice chancellor of University Advancement at Missouri S&T, announced today (Thursday, Sept. 30).

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Missouri S&T receives $2.5 million gift from Nucor Corp.

Posted by on September 29, 2021

Missouri S&T has received a $2.5 million gift from Nucor Corp., the largest steel producer in the United States and North America’s largest recycler.

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Missouri S&T to host STEMFest Oct. 2

Posted by on September 28, 2021

Missouri S&T’s 150th anniversary celebration will continue with a celebration of all things science, technology, engineering and mathematics at STEMFest this October.

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