Tag: nuclear engineering

S&T researchers awarded $2 million to assess public perception of nuclear waste sites

Posted by on June 27, 2023

Researchers from Missouri University of Science and Technology have been awarded a $2 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy to assist the agency in finding interim storage sites for the country’s spent nuclear fuel. 

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Missouri S&T graduate engineering programs on the rise in U.S. News & World Report rankings

Posted by on April 24, 2023

Missouri S&T is again one of the nation’s top-ranked institutions for pursuing a graduate degree in engineering, and several specific degree programs are on the rise, according to the latest U.S. News & World Report rankings.

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Missouri S&T to host free screening of ‘Nuclear Now’ May 1

Posted by on April 18, 2023

Missouri S&T will host a free screening of Nuclear Now, a documentary by Academy Award-winning director Oliver Stone, 12:30-2:30 p.m. Monday, May 1. The screening will be in St. Pat’s Ballrooms A and B of the Havener Center.

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NATIONAL ENGINEERS WEEK: S&T student Baylor Dickinson has a positive reaction to university’s nuclear reactor

Posted by on February 21, 2023

Baylor Dickinson, a first-year student at Missouri S&T, envisions he will be “creating the future” as a nuclear engineer after he graduates. “Creating the Future” is the theme for National Engineers Week 2023, which celebrates the difference engineers make throughout the world. Dickinson, of Webb City, Missouri, says he has long known that Missouri S&T […]

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S&T nuclear engineering student awarded international Curie fellowship

Posted by on February 10, 2023

Narrie Loftus, a senior nuclear engineering major at Missouri S&T, hopes to do her part to help with the gender gap in her field. That is one reason she was recently excited to learn she was accepted for the Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellowship Programme sponsored by the International Atomic Energy Agency.   

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Missouri S&T student selected for Navy Nuclear Propulsion Officer Candidate Program

Posted by on November 18, 2022

Joseph Dereberry, a nuclear engineering junior from Rolla, Missouri, will enter the U.S. Navy’s Nuclear Propulsion Officer Candidate Program when he graduates from Missouri S&T.

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Riding the wave of nuclear fusion

Posted by on May 10, 2022

Jack Fletcher, a senior in nuclear engineering at Missouri University of Science and Technology, plans to graduate in May and has already made his mark in the field. Fletcher, from St. Louis, spent the summer of 2021 working at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee as part of the U. S. Department of Energy’s Science Undergraduate Laboratory Internships (SULI) program.

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U.S. Department of Energy funds nuclear engineering scholarships at Missouri S&T

Posted by on May 3, 2022

Nuclear engineering students at Missouri University of Science and Technology have new support in finding new ways to cut carbon emissions and help meet global climate goals through scholarship funding from the U.S. Department of Energy, which is providing $30,000 for three nuclear engineering scholarships at S&T.

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Saluting S&T engineering alumnae

Posted by on March 8, 2022

March 8 is International Women’s Day, a time to appreciate the contributions of women and girls around the world. We salute Missouri S&T alumnae for the difference they continue to make in Rolla and for their influence in their professions and communities. Here are a few of the thousands of women we’re proud to call S&T graduates. 

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Missouri S&T graduate engineering programs on the rise in U.S. News & World Report rankings

Posted by on March 30, 2021

Missouri S&T is again one of the nation’s top-ranked institutions for pursuing a graduate degree in engineering, and several specific degree programs are on the rise, according to the latest U.S. News & World Report rankings.

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