David Hosick to direct Project Lead The Way at Missouri S&T
David K. Hosick, senior director of school engagement for Project Lead The Way’s west central region, has been named senior director of the Project Lead The Way (PLTW) program at Missouri University of Science and Technology. He takes over for Ben Yates, who will retire in September after serving in the position for the past five years. Hosick’s appointment took effect Monday, Aug. 1
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Greening mines
For more than 150 years, The Doe Run Co. has tapped the fertile mineral resources of southeast Missouri to mine the lead, copper and zinc that remain staples of products ranging from car batteries to X-ray equipment and military satellites.
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Campus prepares to become tobacco free
Missouri University of Science and Technology will join over 1,000 other colleges and universities when it becomes a tobacco-free campus next Monday, Aug. 1, 2016).
Read More »Missouri S&T to launch first MOOC in July
Missouri University of Science and Technology will enter the world of massive open online courses when it launches its first MOOC later this month. The course, “Effective Strategies for Group Work,” is designed to give educators strategies for incorporating group work into their own classes.
Read More »Burken takes chair of civil, architectural and environmental engineering department
Dr. Joel Burken, Curators’ Distinguished Professor of civil, architectural and environmental engineering at Missouri University of Science and Technology, is now the department’s chair after signing an agreement on Thursday July 14.
Burken had been the department’s interim chair since December after previously serving as the department’s associate chair. Although his title has changed, he says he’ll still be involved in research and teaching.
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Final Rolla Town Band concert July 21
Hear a mix of marches, pops and classical music this month at the Rolla Town Band’s fourth and final performance of the 2016 season.
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Missouri S&T Solar Car team to race across the country
A group of students from Missouri University of Science and Technology will race a solar-powered car approximately 1,800 miles against teams from around the nation in the American Solar Challenge, a competition for collegiate design teams.
Read More »Elmore named an ASCE Fellow
Curt Elmore Sam O’Keefe/Missouri S&T
Dr. Curt Elmore, professor of geological engineering at Missouri University of Science and Technology, has been named an American Society of Civil Engineers Fellow.
Elmore has spent the last 30 years in the water resources and environmental engineering field. Before joining the Missouri S&T faculty in 2001, he was a consulting engineer specializing in remedial design at large formerly used defense Superfund sites.
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Learn more about biology at Missouri S&T’s BioBuilder workshops
The local community and Missouri K-12 teachers can learn about the importance of synthetic biology and its role in our everyday lives by attending one of a series of hands-on, interactive summer workshop this July at Missouri University of Science and Technology.
Read More »For alumnus Tyrone Smith, a third trip to the Olympics
A decade ago, Tyrone Smith was in the process of completing one of the top careers by a student-athlete at Missouri S&T, one that saw him earn three All-America awards in the long jump and finish as the national runner-up on two occasions.
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