Improving the performance of recycled materials in roads
In the future, our highways and neighborhood streets could be paved with shredded car tires, discarded roof shingles and even old roads ground-up into gravel. The idea of recycling materials is not new in pavement technology, but recycled road performance and cost are often prohibitive.
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Fine Linen Theatre grows into Rolla fixture — with plenty of help from Missouri S&T community members
Sixteen years ago, Dr. Keith Nisbett and his wife, Kim, didn’t set out to create an entrenched artistic home for amateur actors across south-central Missouri. As homeschool parents, they simply wanted to provide eldest daughter Amy, then a teenager, with the opportunity to perform on stage.That first show — From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, an adaptation of a popular children’s book — quickly became a full-fledged production. And as the nonprofit theater has laid down roots in Rolla, it’s evolved from a Nisbett family affair into a full-fledged community theater, with a healthy dose of participation by Missouri S&T students, staff, other faculty members and the community.
Read More »Academy of Miner Athletics inducts new members
Three former student-athletes from Missouri S&T were inducted into the Academy of Miner Athletics during a ceremony held Friday, Oct. 12, in the Havener Center on the Missouri S&T campus.
Read More »Academy of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineers inducts new members
Eight professionals with ties to Missouri S&T were inducted into the Missouri S&T Academy of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineers at a dinner and induction ceremony held at the Havener Center on the Missouri S&T campus on Oct. 11.
Read More »Alumnus honored by S&T computer science academy
John M. Brown of St. Louis, a graduate of Missouri S&T with ties to the computer science department, was inducted into the Missouri S&T Academy of Computer Science during the group’s banquet and induction ceremony, held Oct. 11 at Matt’s Steakhouse in Rolla.
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Pouring the cornerstone on a better future
The donors who paved the way to a $6.5 million lab expansion in Butler-Carlton Civil Engineering Hall gathered on Oct. 12 to pour the cornerstone on the Advanced Construction and Materials Laboratory.
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Missouri S&T crowns 2018 Homecoming royalty
Missouri S&T crowned the 2018 Homecoming Queen and King at halftime of the Oct. 13 football game between Missouri S&T and William Jewell College.
Read More »Missouri S&T Library extends its hours for the community
Missouri S&T’s Curtis Laws Wilson Library is changing its hours to better serve the students of S&T and the local community. As a part of this change, community guest services for the general public will now begin at 7:30 a.m. Monday through Friday, 10 a.m. on weekends and will end at 10 p.m. daily. This time has been extended since the previous announcement on Sept. 15, due to community feedback.
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Showalter named Kiewit Faculty Scholar
Dr. Eric Showalter, assistant chair and teaching professor of civil, architectural and environmental engineering at Missouri University of Science and Technology, was named a Kiewit Faculty Scholar and spent this past summer with Kiewit Power Constructors.
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S&T’s multicultural theater production promotes understanding, receives first-time grant funding
Missouri S&T’s commitment to inclusive excellence will be apparent in the university’s upcoming multicultural production of “Anon(ymous),” a contemporary play about a young refugee’s inaugural journey through the United States that’s been reimagined from Homer’s “Odyssey.”
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