Month: November 2015
Honoring donors and volunteers
Missouri S&T’s Honor Roll of Donors and Volunteers for fiscal year 2015 is now available online at honorroll.mst.edu. The listing recognizes contributions and service from July 1, 2014, to June 30, 2015. Through the Honor Roll, Missouri S&T acknowledges the philanthropic and volunteer support that continues to move our university forward. Thank you to the […]
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Celebration of Nations
This past fall, Rolla residents joined the Missouri S&T community for a celebration of the cultural diversity that makes the town unique. The sixth annual Celebration of Nations, held in downtown Rolla on Sept. 26, began with a Parade of Nations featuring flags from approximately 80 countries — all of which are represented in the […]
Read More »Save the date: Best Ever 108
Make plans now to travel to Rolla for the 108th St. Pat’s pre-parade party at 11 a.m. Saturday, March 19, at Hasselmann Alumni House, located at 1100 N. Pine St. Complimentary breakfast and a cash bar will be available before the parade. If you can’t make it to Rolla, attend one of the St. Pat’s […]
Read More »Gerald Cohen: word whiz
Gerald Cohen, a professor of foreign languages, is a word sleuth who has dug up the origins of terms like jazz, shyster and the Big Apple, a nickname applied to New York City. He’s also famous for discovering the origins of hot dog.
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Homecoming 2015: MinerFest in review
The Miners came from behind in the second half of the Homecoming football game to beat McKendree University 34-27. The Chancellor’s Advisory Committee on African-American Recruitment and Retention celebrated its 30th anniversary during Homecoming. Gregory Skannal, GeoE’85, and Joan Montague, CSci’95, reminisce at the CACAARR Tailgate. Spectators lined the Rolla streets to watch the first-ever MinerFest Homecoming […]
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Honoring Miner legends
During Homecoming, the Miner Alumni Association honored seven Miners for their accomplishments and their devotion to the association, the campus and its students.
Read More »Making research more accessible
Military historian John C. McManus is conducting research for a new two-volume history of the U.S. Army in the Pacific and Asian theater during World War II through a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), which wants to make scholarly research more accessible to the public.
Read More »Schrenk Hall facelift
Schrenk Hall’s 83,000-square-foot west wing will get a much-needed facelift next fall thanks to $12 million in state capital improvement funding — the first capital funds to come to Missouri S&T in more than a decade. Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon signed the bill in June. The University of Missouri System and Missouri S&T will contribute […]
Read More »Walking the mall
For the first time in several years, the main campus mall was free of construction when classes started in August. Throughout the installation of equipment for the geothermal energy project, which included digging 789 wells on campus, construction was a constant. At the end of the first year of operation, the geothermal energy system exceeded […]
Read More »Record: broken
In August, nearly 8,900 students started classes at Missouri S&T and broke the previous enrollment record, set in 2014. That total included 1,491 first-year and transfer students, which also shattered the previous record. That one had held since 1981.
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