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Missouri S&T professor wins Tau Beta Pi-McDonald Mentor award
Dr. Steve E. Watkins, a professor of electrical and computer engineering at Missouri S&T, has been selected to receive the 2024 Tau Beta Pi-McDonald Mentor award.
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From STEM student to CEO: Dr. Sumin Zhu
Dr. Sumin Zhu believes that people with expertise in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) fields can use their know-how to help them become successful entrepreneurs.
That concept may sound straightforward, but Zhu, a materials scientist-turned-CEO, says it’s a message that needs to be further emphasized to students and young professionals.
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Colter shares the ‘enormous impact’ of Rolla with S&T Ph.D. grads
Dr. Kim D. Colter, a family medicine physician for Mercy Clinic Community Hospitalists in Washington, Missouri, shared with Ph.D. graduates of Missouri University of Science and Technology the importance Rolla, Missouri, had on his life and provided advice for their future careers. Colter spoke during the Missouri S&T Ph.D. commencement ceremony, held at 6 p.m. […]
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Missouri S&T alumnus to be awarded 2024 Fulbright Prize
Gary White, an alumnus of Missouri S&T, has been announced as a 2024 recipient of the J. William Fulbright Prize for International Understanding along with Academy award-winning writer, actor and humanitarian Matt Damon.
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Freddy Ray Dugard: From S&T’s football field to Ford’s front office
When Freddy Ray Dugard was a senior in 2009 at St. Francis Preparatory School in Queens, New York, he says he wouldn’t have been able to point out Missouri on a map.
Fast-forward about 15 years, and Dugard now says that state — and more specifically Missouri S&T — has helped shape his career and set him on a path for success.
Engineers Week: S&T alumni found aircraft startup company
The theme for National Engineers Week 2024 is “Welcome to the Future,” and two Missouri S&T alumni say this aligns perfectly with the focus of the large aircraft startup company they founded last year.
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Maryland lieutenant governor, an S&T alumna, inducted into university’s Academy of Civil Engineers
Aruna Miller, a 1989 civil engineering graduate of Missouri S&T, has been a “first” several times in her life. Most recently, on January 18, 2023, Miller was sworn in as lieutenant governor of Maryland — and as the first South Asian female to be elected to this role in the United States. On April 13, […]
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Mathematics major first S&T graduate to commission into US Space Force
Cory Chafin has become the first graduate of Missouri S&T to commission into the United States Space Force, the sixth branch of the U.S. armed forces that was established Dec. 20, 2019.
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