New frontiers in research
Prompted by the rapid spread of COVID-19, researchers around the world began work to quickly develop tests for the virus. A group of researchers in Missouri S&T’s Lightwave Technology Laboratory joined the search and are developing a non-invasive test that produces results in less than 60 seconds.
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Missouri S&T to offer new STEM-focused degrees in water sustainability, teacher education
Missouri S&T plans to address growing demands for careers in the science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) fields through two new degree programs – one at the undergraduate level for teachers and one at the graduate level for scientists and engineers.
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Biomedical engineers develop ‘smart’ sensor bandages
In a time of COVID-19 restrictions and minimal travel, many people are turning to virtual doctor appointments and consultations as a safer alternative to in-person doctor visits. Researchers at Missouri S&T are working to make this new wave of telemedicine more successful by creating an oxygen-sensing patch printed on a flexible, disposable bandage that can interact with a smartphone. This smart bandage could enable remote monitoring for the early detection of illnesses such as pressure ulcers, allowing for immediate treatment or intervention.
Read More »ALP student accomplishments
ALP programs include students from nearly all majors across campus. And they are some very impressive students. Read more about our Renaissance Student, a language leader, an award-winning Russian scholar and a budding photographer whose work was featured in an online exhibition.
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Missouri S&T 150th events a part of statewide Bicentennial Alliance
Missouri S&T’s 150th anniversary celebration is joining the state of Missouri’s Bicentennial Alliance to host a lecture series on the history and culture of the region.
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Missouri S&T’s Black history: challenges overcome
As Dr. Larry Gragg notes in Forged in Gold: Missouri S&T’s First 150 Years, Missouri S&T was segregated until 1950, and “the campus culture well into the 20th century reflected the broader American culture of bigotry and intolerance.”
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Missouri S&T among winners in NASA’s BIG Idea Challenge
The success of NASA’s future plans to explore and inhabit the moon may depend in part on research by university students, including a team of seven from Missouri University of Science and Technology who have won a grant from the space agency to develop a way to remove lunar dust from power-producing solar cells. The […]
Read More »Notes from the Ozark Research Field Station
The COVID-19 pandemic created challenges for the Ozark Research Field Station’s scheduled programming, so in spring 2020, we opened our grounds to faculty and staff as a socially distanced respite with hiking, canoeing, kayaking or just getting some space outdoors to relax and refresh. We also successfully hosted the first courses that allowed students to […]
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Calculating history: Leon Hall pens history of mathematics at S&T
Ask retired mathematics chair Leon Hall how long it took to write his departmental history book, An Ideal Department: Mathematics and Statistics at MSM, UMR, and Missouri S&T, and the answer may surprise you. “I could say 35 years or even 55, but the decision to organize the stuff I had collected into a book was only five […]
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A pioneer of integration
There have to be pioneers to start an integration movement. For Missouri S&T, those pioneers were George Horne and Elmer Bell Jr. Although neither earned degrees from S&T, Horne and Bell were the university’s first two Black students.
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Sports Headlines
- Miners Earn Four All-Conference Honors, Headlined by Young on First Team
- Gum Named Second Team All-GLVC; Luebbering Earns Spalding Sportsmanship Award
- Volleyball Facing Roosevelt for Inaugural GLVC Matches
- Golf Set to Begin Spring Slate at Sapona
- Six Miners Set for NCAA Division II Indoor Track & Field Championships