Tag: environmental research center

Learn about Missouri’s efforts to clean up waterways at S&T

Posted by on November 23, 2015

Learn about the state’s efforts to protect and improve area water sources at a lecture by Sara Parker Pauley, director of the Missouri Department of Natural Resources (DNR) on the Missouri University of Science and Technology campus.

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UMSL researcher to discuss the politics of climate change at S&T

Posted by on November 13, 2015

Dr. David Robertson, Curators’ Teaching Professor of political science at the University of Missouri-St. Louis (UMSL), will present a talk on the politics of climate change at Missouri University of Science and Technology this month.

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Missouri S&T receives NSF funding to study climate variability

Posted by on August 5, 2014

Missouri University of Science and Technology is one of nine institutions in a research consortium that received a $20 million grant from the National Science Foundation. The grant will fund a five-year multi-institutional project to study climate variability and its potential agricultural, ecological and social impacts in Missouri.

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Chicago’s escape from public health crisis via canal creation subject of lecture

Posted by on March 11, 2014

The author of a book detailing how the city of Chicago reversed the flow of its river and created a navigable canal to avoid a public health crisis will speak at Missouri University of Science and Technology on March 20.

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Burken named interim ERC director

Posted by on July 10, 2008

Dr. Joel Burken, associate professor of civil and environmental engineering at Missouri University of Science and Technology, has been named interim director of the university’s Environmental Research Center for Emerging Contaminants. He will serve in the interim capacity during the search for a permanent replacement. His appointment began July 1.

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UMR professor to lead international clean water group

Posted by on May 18, 2006

Dr. Craig Adams, the John and Susan Mathes Chair of Environmental Engineering at the University of Missouri-Rolla, will begin his term as chair of the Adsorption Specialist Group of the International Water Association (IWA) this month.

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