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Strange things in the Archives
Established in 1978, the Missouri S&T Archives houses the historical, legal and cultural records of the university. In many cases these are documents and photographs, but the archives also preserves interesting campus artifacts. Here are a few of the more unusual finds.
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Melanie Mormile: Mars. Salt. Biofuels.
Common juncture • Melanie Mormile, Missouri S&T microbiologist Her passion • Bacteria. Specifically those organisms that can live in extreme environments – places that don’t support more complex life forms.
Read More »Innovation Park takes shape
Construction began this spring on a 22,750-square-foot general office building on the northeast corner of Missouri S&T’s Golf Course
Read More »St. Pat’s 2010
Follies, street painting, the court, parade and after-parade parties kept the “best ever” tradition alive in Rolla.
Read More »Learning abroad … from Rolla
When final presentations were given in Missouri S&T’s Strategic Enterprise Management Systems course last semester, half the class may have been wearing pajamas. That’s because half of the students took the course from Amsterdam, where class begins seven hours later than in Missouri.
Read More »Building in the Big Easy
A group of 28 Missouri S&T students spent their spring break in New Orleans helping rebuild homes hit by Hurricane Katrina in 2005 as part of the Miner Challenge 2010, an alternative spring break program sponsored by the university’s student life department.
Read More »Wiimote manufacturing
Ming Leu, professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at Missouri S&T, is using remote-control devices from the popular Wii gaming console and putting them to work to improve manufacturing processes. He’s using the devices — called Wiimotes — to record an assembly process in hopes of improving the way companies train workers, shortening cycle time, […]
Read More »A parallel process to boost solar power
The usual method of connecting solar panels is in a series, one after the other. But just as one bad bulb in a string of Christmas lights can black out the entire set, so can a single solar panel disrupt the flow of electrical current through the other panels in a series.
Read More »Robovision, now in 3-D
Soldiers and first responders may soon have a better way to evaluate the interior of dangerous structures, thanks to a joint project between Missouri S&T and the University of Missouri-Columbia.
Read More »Geology of the Nile
In January, a group of Missouri S&T students and faculty traveled to Egypt to study geologic formations surrounding the Egyptian Nile, painting a picture of the evolutionary history of the past 6 million years.
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