Jean Carnahan named Honorary St. Patrick, Honorary Knights also announced
Former U.S. Sen. Jean Carnahan has been named Honorary St. Patrick for the 101st St. Pat’s Celebration in Rolla.
In addition, the Missouri University of Science and Technology committee that helps organize St. Pat’s events has named eight individuals Honorary Knights of St. Patrick for 2009. The Honorary Knights are Kathy Allison, Dr. Cynthia Bolon, Linda Bramel, Rodney Edwards, Gary Forsee, Ron Miller, Darlene Ramsay and Randy Stoll.
At Missouri S&T, there’s plenty of room at the nano level
Dr. Ming Zhang isn’t interested in the big picture. Zhang, operator of the only focused ion beam microscope in Missouri, is much more curious about things you can’t see with your own eyes.
Read More »Missouri S&T team hopes to launch satellites
The Missouri Satellite (M-SAT) team at Missouri University of Science and Technology has been chosen as one of 11 teams nationwide to compete in the Air Force Research Laboratory’s Nanosat 6 competition. The winning team will eventually see its spacecraft launched into orbit.
Read More »In Rolla, St. Pat’s tradition continues
St. Patrick lived roughly 1,600 years ago and historians will tell you he wasn’t really Irish – he was probably Welsh. Legend has it that he was kidnapped as a teenager by pirates and taken to Ireland, where he was enslaved. He escaped and eventually became the patron saint of Ireland. (After becoming a Bishop, he went back to Ireland and ultimately died there.) He was never an engineer and there haven’t been snakes in Ireland since before the last ice age.
Read More »S&T historian to explore rural anti-Semitism in Europe during World War II
Dr. Shannon Fogg, an assistant professor in history and political science at Missouri S&T, recently received a Research Board Grant from the university for her project titled, “Rural Anti-Semitism in Britain and France During World War II.”
Read More »Residential life students win regional awards
Missouri S&T was a winner at the recent annual business meeting of the Midwest Affiliate of College and University Residence Halls (MACURH) held Feb. 20-22 at The College of St. Scholastica in Duluth, Minn. Missouri S&T students took home two awards.
Read More »Jay Goff to co-lead national strategic enrollment management conferences
The American Association of College Registrars and Admissions Officers in Washington, D.C., has appointed Jay W. Goff, vice provost and dean of enrollment management at Missouri University of Science and Technology, as the strategic enrollment management conference coordinator for four-year colleges and universities. The appointment is for the next three years.
Read More »Celebrate Galileo’s discovery with a visit to the Observatory
It’s been 400 years since Galileo first used a telescope to study the skies. 2009 is the International Year of Astronomy which celebrates this and other astronomical milestones.
Read More »Students to present musical thriller ‘Sweeney Todd’
Missouri S&T’s Miner League Theatre Players will present the musical “Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street” this spring.
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