Missouri S&T chemist rolls the dice to better identify chiral molecules in drugs
“High risk, high reward” is the kind of discovery Dr. Garry Grubbs seeks with a new experiment designed to rapidly identify the atomic structure of chiral molecules widely used in pharmaceutical drugs. The finding could significantly reduce the time and costs involved in pharmaceutical development and manufacturing.
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Student groups join forces to help student emergency fund
Eight student groups at Missouri S&T are joining forces as the fall semester begins to raise money to help their fellow students in need.
Read More »Missouri S&T, Missouri State partner to expand cooperative engineering degree programs
For the past decade, Missouri State University has offered courses in civil engineering and electrical engineering on its Springfield campus taught by faculty from Missouri University of Science and Technology and Missouri State. Starting this fall, Missouri State students can apply to a third Missouri S&T engineering program — this one in mechanical engineering —that will begin in fall 2019.
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Starting College 101: Advice for new students
Welcome to Missouri S&T! It is exciting to be a Miner, but we know that starting college can be overwhelming at times. So we turned to the experts for tips. We asked a dozen S&T students — ranging from sophomores to seniors — for their best advice on thriving during the first month of college, relieving stress and living on campus. Here’s what they had to say:
Read More »Cleanup continues after minor fire at S&T’s McNutt Hall
Crews are cleaning up today after a small fire broke out in a second-floor laboratory in McNutt Hall on the Missouri University of Science and Technology campus.
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Ozark Biomedical Initiative Research Symposium to be held Aug. 18
Researchers from Missouri S&T and Phelps County Regional Medical Center (PCRMC) will present their research at an annual symposium hosted by the Ozark Biomedical Initiative (OBI) on Saturday, Aug. 18.
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Missouri S&T to host Research and Technology Development Conference
Missouri S&T and the University of North Dakota are gearing up to host the 2018 Research and Technology Development Conference (RTD) in Rolla this fall. Conference workshops and demonstrations will focus on three research pillars: remote sensing, visualization and high-performance computing. All three pillars will be represented by experts in the field.
Read More »Strong year for patents and inventions at Missouri S&T
Royalties from patents on commercialized inventions and products bring in thousands of dollars in income every year for Missouri S&T. During the fiscal year that ended June 30, 2018, Missouri S&T brought in just over $530,000 in royalty income, and the cumulative royalty amount is expected to cross the $5 million mark in fiscal year 2019.
Read More »Missouri S&T Ph.D. student named student representative to Board of Curators
Missouri Gov. Mike Parson has appointed Avery Welker of Perryville, Missouri, a Ph.D. student in petroleum engineering at Missouri S&T, to serve as the student representative to the University of Missouri Board of Curators, the governing board for the four-campus university system.
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Looking inside a nuclear fuel pin to improve nuclear energy
The search for safe and environmentally friendly renewable energy sources is one of the biggest challenges currently facing humanity. One environmentally friendly and virtually inexhaustible energy source under development is the next generation of nuclear reactors and, along with them, new types of fuels.
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