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How sweet it is

Posted by on June 16, 2008

The best women’s basketball season in Missouri S&T history ended in the championship game of the NCAA Division II Great Lakes Regional as Northern Kentucky handed the Lady Miners a 60-52 defeat in Springfield, Mo. The loss, which came after victories over Michigan Tech (75-66) and Quincy (79-73) in the first two rounds, brought the […]

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M-Club annual awards given out

Posted by on June 12, 2008

The M-Club at Missouri S&T held its annual awards banquet and two of the school’s most celebrated student-athletes received the Gale Bullman Awards: Ashton Gronewold, who set numerous records during his four-year, All-America career on the football team, and Kandi Wieberg, who did likewise for the softball team for the past four seasons.

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Miners represented at national meet

Posted by on June 12, 2008

Missouri S&T had three representatives at the NCAA Division II Track & Field Championships in Walnut, Calif., May 22-24, led by All-American Jordan Henry, who entered the meet as the fifth-ranked pole vaulter in the nation with a top mark of 17 feet.

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A No. 1 tool for early cancer detection

Posted by on June 12, 2008

If Yinfa Ma’s res­earch holds up, pregnant women and those on probation won’t be the only ones asked to pee in a cup. Ma, Curators’ Teaching Professor of chemistry, has developed a non-invasive instrument for pre-cancer screening that uses urine samples to detect cancer in the body and predict the cancer’s type and severity using […]

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Tiny is terrific

Posted by on June 12, 2008

The ultrasmall holds huge possibilities for the future if you ask Julia E. Medvedeva, assistant professor of physics.

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Where’s the beef?

Posted by on June 12, 2008

The famous line delivered by Paul Newman in the movie Cool Hand Luke could summarize David Wright’s last three years of cattle industry research: “What we have here is a failure to communicate.”

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A change in power

Posted by on June 12, 2008

High-tech military gear, carried by soldiers along with the 20 to 40 pounds of batteries they require, one day could have a lighter-than-air power source. A portable, hydrogen-generating energy system would transform jet fuel into hydrogen that could power everything from laptops to communications gear for soldiers in the battlefield.

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­Blocks made from scratch (and scraps)

Posted by on June 12, 2008

John Myers can’t say no to leftovers, particularly when fly ash or wood fibers are on the plate.

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Beth Burka: "Save green, go green"

Posted by on March 17, 2008

Beth (Eberle) Burka, ME’84, is helping businesses across the country save green by going green. Burka founded her St. Louis-based company Energy Matters Inc. in June 2005 to help business owners save money by developing energy management programs. In doing so, Burka took a huge risk leaving a stable position at a natural gas company, […]

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Blowing hot glass

Posted by on March 17, 2008

Many Missourians have long associated glass blowing with artisans who populate Silver Dollar City. Now, students at Missouri S&T can watch glass blowing – and practice it themselves – on campus.

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