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Missouri S&T researcher wins CAREER award to supercharge electric transmission planning
A researcher at Missouri S&T who aims to revamp how the power grid is planned for the future will now have his work powered by the National Science Foundation’s Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program award.
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Time-traveling concrete: S&T researcher looks to ancient Rome to transform modern industry
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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Missouri S&T hosts second annual critical minerals workshop
The future of cell phones, solar panels and electric vehicles depends on materials like cobalt, germanium and rare earth elements. Those and other critical minerals are the focus of the second annual virtual workshop hosted by Missouri S&T Aug. 4-5.
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Missouri S&T part of new $15 million Great Lakes Innovation Corps Hub
Missouri S&T is one of 11 universities in the Midwest – and the only university in Missouri – to join a new National Science Foundation network designed to move more discoveries from the research labs to the real world. Missouri S&T is part of the NSF’s Great Lakes Innovation Corps (I-Corps) Hub. Led by the […]
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Marek Locmelis: geosciences rock star
What do flood-water contamination, mineable platinum deposits and the trigger for human life on Earth have in common? Answer: Marek Locmelis, Missouri S&T geosciences researcher.
Read More »Missouri S&T wins grant for high-resolution 4-D X-ray CT scanner
By this time next year, researchers at Missouri University of Science and Technology who study the properties of various types of materials will have a highly sophisticated scanning tool available to help them, thanks to a grant of nearly $1 million from the National Science Foundation. The $918,397 NSF grant will help fund the purchase […]
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Missouri S&T receives additional NSF grant to train cybersecurity experts
Researchers at Missouri S&T will continue to combat cybersecurity threats by training the next generation of experts in the field with a $225,000 grant from the National Science Foundation. The grant will fund Missouri S&T’s computer science department’s “Scholarship for Service” master of science degree and Ph.D. students, who will specialize in cybersecurity.
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Missouri S&T student team selected as finalists in national entrepreneurship challenge
For the first time, Missouri S&T students will compete this month in a national entrepreneurship challenge against other finalists from colleges and universities across North America. Judges chose the Missouri S&T team, named Spark, as one of 25 undergraduate student teams for the e-FEST competition based on a video business pitch submission in a preliminary online competition.
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Energy efficiency takes a ‘village’
The city of the future could start with a village – Missouri S&T’s Solar Village, to be exact. S&T researchers will study the Solar Village and its residents as their living laboratory over the next three years thanks to an $800,000 grant from the National Institute of Food and Agriculture, funded as part of the […]
Read More »NSF CAREER award supports metal composite research
Dr. Caizhi Zhou, the Roberta and G. Robert Couch Assistant Professor of materials science and engineering at Missouri University of Science and Technology, recently received the National Science Foundation’s Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award for his work in the field of metallic composites.
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