Tag: research

Recent Missouri S&T graduate develops potential treatment for traumatic brain injuries 

Posted by on March 24, 2025

When people experience traumatic brain injuries (TBIs), immediate damage occurs from the blows to the brain, but the harm can continue in the weeks and months that follow. Researchers from Missouri University of Science and Technology are studying how an antioxidant material could potentially stop this ongoing damage.  “A person’s life can change in the blink […]

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Missouri S&T researcher’s robotic bridge inspection system earns ASCE’s 2025 Pankow Award 

Posted by on February 28, 2025

A researcher at Missouri S&T has developed a robotic system to make bridge inspections faster, more comprehensive and safer. Dr. Genda Chen’s invention, called the Bridge Inspection Robot Deployment System, or BIRDS, has been selected for the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) 2025 Charles Pankow Award for Innovation. 

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Missouri S&T earns highest research designation from Carnegie Foundation

Posted by on February 13, 2025

Missouri S&T has been classified as one of the nation’s top-tier research institutions and now has a Research 1 (R1) designation, according to the 2025 Carnegie Foundation classifications released today (Feb. 13). S&T is one of 187 institutions out of more than 4,300 nationwide to receive this distinction.

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Making waves: S&T researcher awarded $750,000 DOE grant focused on hydropower 

Posted by on January 23, 2025

A Missouri S&T researcher is developing artificial intelligence and computational methods to help hydropower plant operators manage water and energy resources more efficiently and potentially pass on savings to consumers, with a $750,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). 

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Did the COVID-19 lockdowns really affect lunar temperatures?

Posted by on January 21, 2025

Almost five years ago, much of the world went quiet for several weeks due to the COVID-19 lockdowns. It went so quiet, in fact, that scholars published a 2024 article in a Royal Astronomical Society publication claiming the lack of human activity likely led to the Moon’s surface temperatures cooling down in April and May of 2020.

But researchers from Missouri S&T and the University of West Indies (UWI) in St. Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago, are now challenging those findings in a new article published this year in that same journal. 

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Missouri S&T-led critical minerals Tech Hub awarded $28.5 million in federal funds

Posted by on January 15, 2025

A Regional Innovation and Technology Hub (Tech Hub) led by Missouri S&T has secured $28.5 million in implementation funds from the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) for its efforts focused on critical minerals processing.

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S&T researchers listed as most prolific authors for their topics in Scopus  

Posted by on November 27, 2024

Fourteen researchers associated with Missouri S&T are listed as the most prolific contributors in their topics from 2019 to 2023 in Scopus — a multidisciplinary abstract and citation database and website, scopus.com, maintained by the Elsevier publishing company.  

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S&T study on heat-resistant materials receives Air Force funding  

Posted by on November 18, 2024

Researchers at Missouri S&T are studying advanced materials and welding techniques for use in extreme conditions that could lead to more durable hypersonic vehicles or safer nuclear reactors with funding from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research.

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S&T researcher awarded grant to study turbulence at hypersonic speeds 

Posted by on July 11, 2024

A researcher from Missouri S&T has been awarded $200,000 from the National Science Foundation to study how turbulence behaves at high speeds and how it could be used to make hypersonic vehicles more effective. 

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Missouri S&T professor awarded $440,000 from NIH for skin cancer detection research

Posted by on May 8, 2024

A Missouri S&T computer engineering professor is working to improve the detection of skin cancer, and he was recently awarded a $440,000 grant from the National Institutes of Health to support his efforts.  

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