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Remembering Dr. Elizabeth Cummins Vonalt

By Velvet Hasner | November 12, 2024 | 0 Comments

Dr. Elizabeth Cummins, professor emerita of English and technical communication at Missouri University of Science and Technology, died on Saturday, Nov. 9.

Dr. Floyd H. Frame was Missouri S&T’s founding chair of electrical engineering, serving in the role from 1924-1948. He is pictured here in the university’s 1944 Rollamo yearbook. Photo courtesy of Scholars’ Mine.

Missouri S&T electrical engineering celebrates its centennial

By Greg Edwards | October 31, 2024 | 0 Comments

In 1924, Missouri S&T was called the Missouri School of Mines and Metallurgy, its student newspaper had advertisements for 35-cent haircuts, there were 353 students enrolled in fall classes, with 111 of them being freshmen — and the electrical engineering department was officially created. 

Dr. Daoru Han, second from left, oversees a group of students rehearsing how to test the team’s technology for separating moon regolith materials in lunar gravity conditions. Pictured, from left, are Marissa Verduin, Han, Trey Brown, Charles Wood, and Justin Viers. Photo by Michael Pierce/Missouri S&T.

Missouri S&T researchers set to work in lunar gravity for NASA project

By Greg Edwards | October 30, 2024 | 0 Comments

A team of researchers from Missouri S&T examining how to enrich materials needed for construction on the Moon will soon experience what gravity is like on Earth’s closest celestial companion while testing their technology.