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Celebrating cultural diversity
Every fall since 2010, lions, dragons and camels have paraded through downtown Rolla to show that people love a parade, regardless of their native country. Celebration of Nations was created to give area residents and Missouri S&T students a chance to share their heritage and celebrate the region’s cultural diversity. Each year the celebration has […]
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Fall 2014 Career Fair
Career opportunities and employer relations hosted the largest Career Fair in S&T history with 304 employers on campus. More than 130 alumni returned to recruit graduates of their alma mater. Prior to the career fair, the Miner Alumni Association and Students Today, Alumni Tomorrow (STAT) hosted a continental breakfast to thank the recruiters for their […]
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A new era for energy
Missouri S&T’s World War II-era power plant, which burned coal and wood chips to provide steam to the campus since 1945, was decommissioned this past spring to make way for a new geothermal energy system.
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Almost home
Construction on the Hasselmann Alumni House is almost complete and the Miner Alumni Association staff is ready to move in.
Read More »Nuclear fusion: achieved
In May, three Missouri S&T physics seniors achieved nuclear fusion of deuterium into helium as part of the final project in their senior research laboratory class. This nuclear fusion reaction is the same process as the one that powers the sun.
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Off-the-grid energy research
A microgrid that connects the four student-built solar houses that make up Missouri S&T’s Solar Village began operations this fall to manage and store renewable energy among the four homes. A ribbon-cutting ceremony (pictured above) was held in July. The microgrid also acts as a research tool that will help Missouri S&T professors and students […]
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Smartphone biology
Using nothing more than a smartphone and less than $10 in hardware supplies, Missouri S&T biology students built their own microscopes in biology lab this past fall.
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Team Orion: Pursuit of Life
Abdalla Bani, AE’13, Tyler Martin, AE’13, and Fabrice Tine, ME’13, AE’13, all overcame adversity to make it to college. Despite the challenges they faced, each of them earned a degree from Missouri S&T. Now they are helping other S&T students who face adversity to achieve the same success.
Read More »By the numbers – Fall/Winter 2014
86 – Missouri S&T’s rank in Money magazine. S&T was the top-ranked public university in Missouri. Money based its rankings on educational quality, affordability and career outcomes. 3 – Missouri S&T’s rank among the nation’s engineering schools as reported in USA Today. The list, presented by College Factual, ranks colleges based on overall quality. 47 – Missouri S&T’s […]
Read More »In print
Kathleen Drowne, associate professor of English and technical communication, is the author of Understanding Richard Russo. Published in July by the University of South Carolina Press, the book explores themes and writing techniques contemporary American novelist Richard Russo uses in his works. Matt O’Keefe, MetE’85, professor of materials science and engineering; Bill Fahrenholtz, Curators’ Professor […]
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