Tag: air force

S&T earns Purple Heart University status – free football game tickets for veterans 

Posted by on October 21, 2025

Missouri S&T has been designated as a Purple Heart University, granted in recognition of its commitment to veterans killed or wounded in combat. The designation will be highlighted during halftime of S&T’s Military Appreciation football game on Saturday, Nov. 1.  

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S&T bringing high-tech, hands-on fun to Missouri State Fair

Posted by on July 28, 2025

Drones, robots, virtual reality and a world-champion Mars rover built by students. Missouri S&T will bring hands-on activities for fairgoers of all ages to the Missouri State Fair, Aug. 7-17 in Sedalia, Missouri.

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Missouri S&T professor to serve as Air Force Summer Faculty Fellow

Posted by on April 23, 2024

A Missouri S&T professor will spend the summer as an Air Force Summer Faculty Fellow and support the United States military’s research initiatives.

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Missouri S&T ROTC teams compete at Ranger Challenge

Posted by on October 30, 2023

Missouri S&T’s Air Force and Army Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (ROTC) cadets participated at a two-day competition against teams from several other Midwestern universities Oct. 13-14.

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Han receives Young Investigator Award for electrospray propulsion research

Posted by on December 15, 2021

Dr. Daoru (Frank) Han, assistant professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at Missouri University of Science and Technology, has received a Young Investigator Award from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) to support his research on electrospray propulsion systems.

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The sky is no limit

Posted by on July 21, 2020

Danielle Gines comes from a musical family in Bunker Hill, Ill., and she is always singing. But it was her interest in science and aviation that drew the Illinois transfer student to Missouri S&T and the Air Force ROTC program. “I have a passion for anything related to air and space and flight,” says Gines, […]

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Missouri S&T’s Air Force ROTC to present U.S. flag for St. Louis Rams Nov. 1

Posted by on October 23, 2015

Students from the U.S. Air Force Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (ROTC) Detachment 442 at Missouri University of Science and Technology will serve as Color Guard at the St. Louis Rams football game at the Edward Jones Dome in St. Louis on Sunday, Nov. 1.

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Missouri S&T satellite team wins national Air Force competition

Posted by on January 30, 2015

Missouri University of Science and Technology’s Satellite Research Team earned first place in the U.S. Air Force’s University Nanosat-8 Program. The Air Force is now working to launch the team’s spacecraft on a future mission into low orbit.

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Missouri S&T’s Air Force ROTC to present U.S. flag for St. Louis Rams

Posted by on December 9, 2014

Students from the U.S. Air Force Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (ROTC) Detachment 442 at Missouri University of Science and Technology will serve as Color Guard at the St. Louis Rams football game at the Edward Jones Dome in St. Louis on Sunday, Dec. 21.

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Researcher receives Young Investigator Award for wind tunnel research

Posted by on July 8, 2014

Dr. Lian Duan, assistant professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at Missouri University of Science and Technology, has received a Young Investigator Award from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research to support his research on how noise affects wind tunnel testing of boundary-layer transition for high-speed, hypersonic flight.

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