Waste containment expert, NAE member to speak at S&T Feb. 12  

Posted by on February 6, 2025

Dr. Craig Benson, a member of the National Academy of Engineering, will speak at Missouri S&T at 3 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 12, as part of S&T’s Shamsher and Sally Prakash Distinguished Lecture Series. 

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Missouri S&T’s spring career fair is Feb. 25

Posted by on February 5, 2025

Missouri S&T students will have a chance to meet with hundreds of recruiters at the Spring Career Fair this February. At last count over 280 employers have registered for the event.

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RESCHEDULED: Missouri S&T historian to give talk on Rolla poet

Posted by on January 31, 2025

Dr. Larry Gragg, university historian and professor emeritus of history and political science at Missouri University of Science and Technology, will present a talk titled “Inez Parker Griggs and the Rolla Community” this February. The talk is part of the Rolla Public Library’s Black History Month event series.

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Introducing ‘Batiacasphaera obohikuenobeae’: A species named to honor S&T professor 

Posted by on January 30, 2025

When paleontologists say the name “Oboh-Ikuenobe,” they may now need to clarify whether they mean their colleague, Dr. Francisca Oboh-Ikuenobe, or Batiacasphaera obohikuenobeae, an ancient microscopic fossil species from the Arctic Ocean recently named in her honor. 

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Making waves: S&T researcher awarded $750,000 DOE grant focused on hydropower 

Posted by on January 23, 2025

A Missouri S&T researcher is developing artificial intelligence and computational methods to help hydropower plant operators manage water and energy resources more efficiently and potentially pass on savings to consumers, with a $750,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). 

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Bourdeau named Missouri S&T’s vice provost of online learning and educational innovation

Posted by on January 22, 2025

Dr. Debra Bourdeau, a longtime academic leader and faculty member at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Worldwide will become vice provost of online learning and educational innovation at Missouri University of Science and Technology on Tuesday, April 1. Bourdeau will lead S&T’s development of online programs, including graduate and undergraduate degrees and certificates. Bourdeau will oversee a […]

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Did the COVID-19 lockdowns really affect lunar temperatures?

Posted by on January 21, 2025

Almost five years ago, much of the world went quiet for several weeks due to the COVID-19 lockdowns. It went so quiet, in fact, that scholars published a 2024 article in a Royal Astronomical Society publication claiming the lack of human activity likely led to the Moon’s surface temperatures cooling down in April and May of 2020.

But researchers from Missouri S&T and the University of West Indies (UWI) in St. Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago, are now challenging those findings in a new article published this year in that same journal. 

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Missouri S&T’s online engineering management graduate program ranks fifth in nation 

Posted by on January 21, 2025

Missouri S&T’s online master’s degree in engineering management has once again earned national acclaim with a ranking of fifth in the nation alongside Duke University, according to the U.S. News & World Report rankings released Jan. 21. 

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First Solar supports Missouri S&T efforts to secure critical materials supply chains

Posted by on January 21, 2025

First Solar, Inc. has established the Endowed Professorship in Critical Energy Materials in the materials science and engineering department at Missouri S&T. The decision to endow a professorship reflects the strategic alignment between the two organizations, which have collaborated on critical minerals, particularly tellurium, for the past decade.

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Missouri S&T-led critical minerals Tech Hub awarded $28.5 million in federal funds

Posted by on January 15, 2025

A Regional Innovation and Technology Hub (Tech Hub) led by Missouri S&T has secured $28.5 million in implementation funds from the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) for its efforts focused on critical minerals processing.

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