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Christi Luks has been a Missouri S&T faculty member since 2014. Photo by Michael Pierce/Missouri S&T.

Luks named Curators’ Distinguished Teaching Professor

By Greg Edwards | September 16, 2025 | 0 Comments

Dr. Christi Luks, a teaching professor and associate chair of the Linda and Bipin Doshi Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering at Missouri S&T, has been named a Curators’ Distinguished Teaching Professor. 

Dr. Frank Liou operates a mechanical testing device in a Missouri S&T laboratory. Photo by Blaine Falkena/Missouri S&T.

S&T manufacturing engineering expert named Curators’ Distinguished Professor 

By Greg Edwards | September 16, 2025 | 1 Comment

Dr. Frank Liou, the Michael and Joyce Bytnar Product Innovation and Creativity Professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at Missouri S&T, has been named a Curators’ Distinguished Professor. 

Jacob Ortega looks toward the moon. Photo by Michael Pierce/Missouri S&T.

S&T student awarded NASA fellowship to develop method to extract moon metal  

By Greg Edwards | September 12, 2025 | 0 Comments

When some people look at the moon’s dusty, gray surface, they see multiple obstacles standing in the way of humans building permanent structures there. When Jacob Ortega looks at it, he sees an opportunity to turn its surface materials into aluminum for lunar construction.