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Stockton Dam, located in southwest Missouri, generates hydroelectric power for tens of thousands of households. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers photo.

Making waves: S&T researcher awarded $750,000 DOE grant focused on hydropower 

By Greg Edwards | January 23, 2025 | 0 Comments

A Missouri S&T researcher is developing artificial intelligence and computational methods to help hydropower plant operators manage water and energy resources more efficiently and potentially pass on savings to consumers, with a $750,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). 

Bourdeau named Missouri S&T’s vice provost of online learning and educational innovation

By Velvet Hasner | January 22, 2025 | 0 Comments

Dr. Debra Bourdeau, a longtime academic leader and faculty member at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Worldwide will become vice provost of online learning and educational innovation at Missouri University of Science and Technology on Tuesday, April 1. Bourdeau will lead S&T’s development of online programs, including graduate and undergraduate degrees and certificates. Bourdeau will oversee a […]

A full moon rises over Missouri S&T’s Stonehenge. Photo by Michael Pierce/Missouri S&T.

Did the COVID-19 lockdowns really affect lunar temperatures?

By Greg Edwards | January 21, 2025 | 0 Comments

Almost five years ago, much of the world went quiet for several weeks due to the COVID-19 lockdowns. It went so quiet, in fact, that scholars published a 2024 article in a Royal Astronomical Society publication claiming the lack of human activity likely led to the Moon’s surface temperatures cooling down in April and May of 2020.

But researchers from Missouri S&T and the University of West Indies (UWI) in St. Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago, are now challenging those findings in a new article published this year in that same journal.