S&T researcher gets stimulus funds to recycle silicon
U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu recently announced the funding of 24 new solar projects as part of the nation’s economic stimulus efforts. One of the projects involves research at Missouri University of Science and Technology, where Dr. Lifeng Zhang is working on methods to recycle silicon wastes generated in the production of solar wafers.
Read More »Officers to receive training on how to handle college parties
Missouri University of Science and Technology is hosting a training session for law enforcement officers Friday, July 10, on ways to deal with drinking behaviors and large parties.
Read More »S&T to offer class on how to use eBay
Missouri University of Science and Technology’s Small Business Technology Development Center is offering a two-part class on how to sell items on eBay from 9 a.m. to noon on Tuesday, July 14, and Thursday, July 16, in Room 103 of the Curtis Laws Wilson Library.
Read More »Mishra named fellow of international materials society
Dr. Rajiv S. Mishra, Curators’ Professor of materials science and engineering at Missouri S&T, has been named a fellow of ASM International, an international professional society for materials information.
Read More »Liou receives SME distinguished paper award
Dr. Frank Liou, professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at Missouri S&T, recently received an award from the Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME) for a paper he co-authored.
Read More »Governor visits campus to sign legislation promoting science, technology education
Missouri University of Science and Technology was the site Gov. Jay Nixon selected to sign into law two pieces of legislation promoting education in mathematics, engineering, technology and science.
Read More »Student humanitarian trip to Honduras on hold
Members of Missouri S&T’s Engineers Without Borders student chapter are putting an upcoming trip to Honduras on hold due to the political situation in that country.
Read More »Military historian’s latest book uncovers ‘Band of Brothers’ falsehood
Despite the stirring portrayal in Band of Brothers, Easy Company of the 101st Airborne Division was not the first to enter Adolf Hitler’s Berchtesgaden mountain retreat near the end of World War II, says military historian Dr. John C. McManus in a new book.
Spend an evening with the town band this summer
Bring your lawn chairs and join the Rolla Town Band for its first concert of the summer this Thursday, July 2. The performance will begin at 7:30 p.m. on the Castleman Hall Green, located at 10th and State streets.
Read More »Earthquake recording stations to be located in Missouri
As part of a National Science Foundation initiative called EarthScope, 43 earthquake recording stations will be placed in Missouri and southern Iowa in 2010-2011. Dr. Stephen Gao, a seismologist in the geology and geophysics program at Missouri University of Science and Technology, is working with four students from Missouri universities to conduct field surveys and identify locations for the stations.
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