Beyond the Puck

Boonchai Songthumvat: educating Thailand

Posted by on July 29, 2015

Boonchai Songthumvat, MS EMgt’76, is doing everything he can to make education possible for children in Thailand. Known as Boon, Songthumvat and his wife, Nuchanart, own Nuboon Co., a Bangkok-based manufacturer of fruit and vegetable juices, coffee and tea.

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For the love of Legos

Posted by on July 29, 2015

Meghan (Donnellan) Nelson, BSci‘05, and her husband, Ryan, love Legos. The couple’s company, MR Brick Designer, has sold hundreds of Lego clocks, business card holders, lamps and commissioned pieces from their website MRBrickDesigner.com.

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Sections by the numbers

Posted by on July 29, 2015

1915 – Founding of three oldest alumni sections – St. Louis, Kansas City and Springfield-Joplin 28 – St. Pat’s events around the country 50+  – Alumni sections 120 – Active section officers Largest section – St. Louis with 13,653 members Largest section outside Missouri – Houston with 1,746 members Section that is farthest from Rolla – Anchorage, Alaska, at […]

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Keeping the books

Posted by on July 29, 2015

In 2012, the Miner Alumni Association board of directors consolidated its committees into five groups with broad goals that focus on alumni engagement, finances, student engagement, marketing and communications, and strengthening campus relations.

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Kicking off college life in KC

Posted by on July 29, 2015

At the end of the summer, incoming Missouri S&T freshmen, current students and their families living in the Kansas City area will join alumni and members of some of S&T’s student design teams — complete with their creations — on Jim Foil’s front lawn. For years Foil, CE’74, MS CE’75, has hosted one of the […]

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Brewer Science named a top employer

Posted by on July 29, 2015

Minority Engineer magazine recently named Brewer Science No. 36 in its 2015 list of 50 top employers in the U.S., rising from number 39 in 2014. The company was featured along with tech giants Google, Apple, Amazon, Intel, Microsoft and Facebook.

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Galloway takes over as state auditor

Posted by on July 29, 2015

On April 14, Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon named Nicole R. Galloway, Econ’04, Math’04, as Missouri State Auditor. Galloway, a certified public accountant and certified fraud examiner, had served as the Boone County Treasurer since April 2011.

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Gillis wins education award

Posted by on July 29, 2015

William Gillis, ME’99, PhD EMgt’13, adjunct instructor at Missouri S&T and managing engineer in the planning, design and construction department at the University of Missouri-Columbia, was named the 2015 Outstanding Professional Engineer in Education by the St. Louis Chapter of the Missouri Society of Professional Engineers.

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History grad turned Twitter curator

Posted by on July 29, 2015

Jeff Schramm, Hist’92, associate professor of history and political science at Missouri S&T, served as curator of the @wethehumanities Twitter account April 6–12. The account offers a central platform for discussion and news of the humanities in any form.

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S&T graduates make the grade

Posted by on July 29, 2015

Spencer Templeton, Phys’13, who teaches physics and Project Lead The Way in the Ferguson-Florissant School District, and Andrew Lott, BSci’13, who teaches sciences and coaches at Newburg High School in Newburg, Mo., were named Outstanding Beginning Teachers by the Missouri Association for Colleges of Teacher Education.

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