Online graduate programs receive funding at S&T
Three technical communication graduate programs will now be available online at Missouri University of Science and Technology, thanks to $58,000 in funding from the University of Missouri System eLearning initiative. The initiative was created to increase access to full degree and degree completion programs at the UM System’s four campuses.
Read More »Experimental Mine again tops Popular Science’s ‘awesome labs’ rankings
For the second year in a row, the Experimental Mine at Missouri University of Science and Technology – home to a popular summer Explosives Camp for high school juniors and seniors – tops a list of “Awesome College Labs” as determined by Popular Science magazine. The rankings appear in the magazine’s September issue.
Read More »So much potential water energy, so close to home
Dr. Rajiv Mishra thinks the ancient past and the modern present are converging in some ways. “In the past,” Mishra says, “we have prayed to the sun god, to the wind god and to the water god. Now we are back to that point.”
Read More »S&T to ‘Show-Me the Green’ at state fair
Students from Missouri University of Science and Technology will demonstrate environmental technology during a day filled with science activities at the Missouri State Fair on Aug. 20.
Read More »Schwartz, Whitefield, Woelk appointed to interim positions
With the recent appointment of Provost Warren K. (Kent) Wray as interim chancellor of Missouri S&T effective Sept. 1, 2011, three other university officials also have been appointed to interim positions.
Read More »Warren K. Wray named interim chancellor
Dr. Warren K. (Kent) Wray, provost at Missouri University of Science and Technology since August 2006, has been named interim chancellor of Missouri S&T effective Sept. 1, 2011, University of Missouri interim President Stephen J. Owens announced today (Monday, Aug. 1, 2011).
Read More »Mining engineering conference at S&T Aug. 30-Sept. 1
Innovations in Mining Engineering (IME 2011), a three-day conference focusing on research and technological advances in the mining industry, will be hosted by Missouri University of Science and Technology Aug. 30 through Sept. 1 on the university’s campus.
Read More »Nature’s expert witnesses: plants tell of environmental pollution
The poet William Blake once wrote that we could “see a world in a grain of sand.” Today, environmental engineers are seeing the world beneath the surface through a greener part of nature: the trunks and branches of trees.
S&T professor honored by civil engineering society
Dr. Shamsher Prakash, professor emeritus of civil engineering at Missouri University of Science and Technology, has been named a Distinguished Member of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), the society’s highest accolade.
Read More »Starting salaries remain strong for S&T grads
Graduates of Missouri University of Science and Technology earn some of the highest starting salaries in the nation, according to a recent report by Payscale Inc., a Seattle-based research firm.
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