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S&T names Barry Robbins new CIO

By Peter Ehrhard | April 3, 2024 | 0 Comments

Barry Robbins, managing partner with Silver Bear Solutions, in Atlanta, has been named chief information officer (CIO) at Missouri S&T. He will join S&T on May 1.

Matt Klosterman stands in front of the Odysseus spacecraft that recently landed on the moon.

Missouri S&T alumni shoot for the moon

By Greg Edwards | March 28, 2024 | 0 Comments

In the 1960s, Donald Beinart, a Missouri S&T alumnus, helped create flight simulation systems for NASA’s Project Gemini, which was a precursor to the Apollo program’s manned lunar landings. Almost six decades later, his grandson, Matt Klosterman, who is also a Missouri S&T alumnus, played a role in the country’s first lunar landing since the Apollo program came to an end.

Regan Swain, a graduate research assistant for the project, shows a rock sample to a group of middle- and high-school students who visited S&T during National Engineers Week. Photo by Michael Pierce/Missouri S&T.

Hardcore research: S&T study explores best areas in state to find critical minerals

By Greg Edwards | March 27, 2024 | 0 Comments

Researchers from Missouri S&T are using rock core samples collected in the past to find the best areas for the future mining of critical minerals.