Legislative committee to visit Missouri S&T to discuss higher ed funding
The Missouri General Assembly’s Joint Committee on Education will hold a public hearing on funding for higher education at Missouri University of Science and Technology.
Read More »Film, TV writer and director to discuss screenwriting
Bix Skahill, a writer and director of film and television projects, will give two lectures at Missouri University of Science and Technology.
Read More »Ph.D. students take top honors in safety and risk analysis research
Two Ph.D. engineering students at Missouri University of Science and Technology have won top honors in a national competition on safety engineering and risk analysis.
Read More »Results of Missouri S&T climate, diversity survey presented
The academic and work environment at Missouri University of Science and Technology is perceived as “comfortable” or “very comfortable” by 82 percent of respondents to a spring 2012 survey about the university’s climate. But 14 percent of survey respondents report that they had experienced conduct “that interfered unreasonably with their ability to work or learn on campus” during the previous year.
Read More »S&T faculty to receive excellence awards
Five faculty members at Missouri University of Science and Technology will receive Faculty Excellence Awards at a ceremony scheduled for Tuesday, Feb. 12, 2013.
Read More »S&T to host lecture on women in computing
Dr. Marie Hicks, assistant professor of history at Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago, will present a lecture about the history of women in computing at Missouri University of Science and Technology on Nov. 9.
Read More »Route 66 author to speak at S&T Thursday
Rolla native Michael Lund, an author of nine novels about Route 66 and the generation that came of age in the Midwest in the ’50s and ’60s, will speak on the Missouri University of Science and Technology campus at 3:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 1. The lecture will be held in Room 201 Humanities-Social Sciences Building.
Read More »Mummy unwrapping brought Egyptology to the public
Mummies have been objects of horror in popular culture since the early 1800s — more than a century before Boris Karloff portrayed an ancient Egyptian searching for his lost love in the 1932 film “The Mummy.” Public “unwrappings” of real mummified human remains performed by both showmen and scientists heightened the fascination, but also helped develop the growing science of Egyptology, says a Missouri University of Science and Technology historian.
Read More »S&T historian to receive state book award
Dr. Petra DeWitt, assistant teaching professor in history and political science at Missouri University of Science and Technology, has been chosen to receive the 2012 Missouri History Book Award from the State Historical Society of Missouri.
Read More »Celebrate international education at S&T’s Global Showcase
The international affairs office at Missouri University of Science and Technology, in conjunction with the university’s study abroad programs, leadership and cultural programs and the Missouri S&T International Students Club, will sponsor the annual Global Showcase event from 11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 14, in the atrium of the Havener Center.
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