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Missouri S&T names vice chancellor for university advancement
Tory Verkamp, currently interim vice chancellor for university advancement at Missouri University of Science and Technology, will serve in the permanent position, starting Sunday, Oct. 1. Missouri S&T Chancellor Mo Dehghani announced the appointment Sept. 21.
Read More »$300 million gift from June and Fred Kummer continues to transform Missouri S&T, the Rolla region and Missouri
Nearly three years ago, June Kummer and her late husband, Fred S. Kummer, a 1955 Missouri S&T graduate, made a donation that transformed Missouri S&T, the Rolla region and the state of Missouri. Their $300 million donation, received Oct. 9, 2020, and announced Oct. 12, remains the largest single gift ever to any Missouri university, public or private, and the fifth-largest gift to any public institution in the nation, according to data compiled by The Chronicle of Higher Education.
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Photo gallery: Spring commencement 2023
Missouri S&T celebrated the accomplishments of over 1,000 Miners as they received their degrees last weekend. Check out some photos from the ceremonies. Photos by Michael Pierce, Missouri S&T
Read More »Cain named chief marketing and communications officer for Missouri S&T
Cheryl Cain has been named vice chancellor of marketing and communications and chief marketing and communications officer at Missouri S&T. She is currently vice president for marketing and communications at Texas A&M-Corpus Christi. Her appointment will begin July 3.
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George Horne receives Chancellor Medal from Missouri S&T
George Horne, one of Missouri University of Science and Technology’s first two black students, has been honored with the university’s Chancellor Medal for pioneering an integration movement at S&T when he enrolled in 1950. Missouri S&T Chancellor Mo Dehghani presented Horne with the medal at his home in St. Louis on Monday, March 27.
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Op-ed: Engineers work to ‘create the future’
The following opinion piece by Dr. David Borrok, vice provost and dean of Missouri S&T’s College of Engineering and Computing, was published in the Springfield News-Leader.
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Missouri S&T leads national push to address critical minerals crisis, receives workshop funding
The United States is in the midst of a critical minerals crisis, and Missouri S&T is becoming known as a national hub to discuss and develop solutions to this issue. The university was recently awarded funding from the National Science Foundation to host the third annual Resilient Supply of Critical Minerals workshop Wednesday, Aug. 9, and Thursday, Aug. 10.
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‘Steeling the show’: S&T metallurgists awarded second $2 million grant
A Missouri S&T research team was recently awarded a $2 million grant from the United States Department of Energy to research technologies to improve the operating efficiency of electric arc furnaces (EAFs) used for steelmaking. “It takes a tremendous amount of power to run an EAF, and we are looking for new ways to lower […]
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S&T’s online engineering management grad program in top 10 of U.S. News & World Report rankings
Missouri S&T’s online master’s degree program in engineering management ranks sixth in the nation in that category and eighth in the nation in the industrial engineering category.
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Towler named Doshi Professor of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering
Dr. Mark Robert Towler has been named the Linda and Bipin Doshi Professor of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering at Missouri S&T. He began his duties on Jan. 1.
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