Tag: chemical and biochemical engineering

Company invests in S&T professor’s invention to stop bleeding 

Posted by on June 10, 2024

Dr. Mark Towler envisions a world in which members of the United States military and others facing perilous situations will have immediate access to a glass powder he invented that can control bleeding and save lives.  

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Special issue of academic journal honors Missouri S&T professor

Posted by on May 13, 2024

Dr. Muthanna H. Al-Dahhan, a Curators’ Distinguished Professor of chemical and biochemical engineering and nuclear engineering and radiation science at Missouri S&T, recently had a special virtual issue of the Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research (I&ECR) academic journal dedicated to his honor.  

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Missouri S&T students exhibit research to state legislators

Posted by on April 10, 2024

Undergraduate students from Missouri University of Science and Technology traveled to Jefferson City, Missouri, on April 4 to participate in the annual Undergraduate Research Day at the Capitol.

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Missouri S&T professor named president-elect of ASEE

Posted by on March 5, 2024

The American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) recently completed its annual election, and Dr. Christi Luks, a chemical engineering faculty member at Missouri University of Science and Technology, won the national organization’s race for president-elect. 

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S&T atherosclerosis researcher awarded patent, says clinical trials ‘a few years away’

Posted by on December 5, 2023

A Missouri S&T researcher studying chronic artery disease, or atherosclerosis, was recently awarded a patent for a nano-formulation he says could potentially be used as a treatment for the disease.

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S&T professor’s glass powder that controls bleeding may also prevent infections

Posted by on November 8, 2023

Can a glass powder that was developed to stop bleeding after gunshot wounds and other body trauma also serve as an antibacterial and help stave off infections?

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87 researchers affiliated with Missouri S&T among top 2% cited scientists in their fields for career or single-year impact

Posted by on November 3, 2023

A total of 58 current and former faculty of Missouri S&T are among the top researchers in their field as measured by their career research records, and 72 current or former Missouri S&T researchers were among the best in their fields in 2022, according to a recent analysis of standardized citation indicators of the Elsevier Data Repository published by Stanford University.

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S&T welcomes new faculty

Posted by on October 2, 2023

Missouri S&T welcomed more than 30 new faculty members this year. They bring a wide range of expertise that includes artificial intelligence, astrodynamics, energy economics, energy storage, flood prediction, military history, quantum physics and wearable wireless sensors. The new faculty are:

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S&T student team creates spinach-based skin graft

Posted by on May 10, 2023

A team of three undergraduate students from Missouri S&T recently won a $15,000 first place award at the Regnier Venture Creation Challenge in Kansas City for their project titled “Foliagraft.” Foliagraft is a new way to use spinach leaves and stem cells to help burn patients and others with wounds and conditions that require a skin graft.

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Time-traveling concrete: S&T researcher looks to ancient Rome to transform modern industry

Posted by on April 27, 2023

A researcher at Missouri S&T is looking to solve the problems of tomorrow by using chemistry from the distant past.

Dr. Monday Uchenna Okoronkwo, assistant professor of chemical and biochemical engineering at S&T, is researching how to mimic the chemistry and composition of ancient Roman concrete while also applying modern technology to make it even better.

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