Beyond the Puck
Section event wrap-up
On Saturday, June 23, the St. Louis Section gathered for its annual Scholarship Golf Tournament. Here, 110 golfers came together, played a round of golf, reminisced with fellow Miner alumni and dined on pork steak. Watch for next year’s announcement and a chance to compete.
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Steven Frey: Locked in on S&T
A true champion of S&T, Steven Frey, MS Phys’86, is director of applied research for Lockheed Martin Corp. in Orlando, Fla. He has been with the company since he finished graduate school.
Read More »Rick Jordan: shifting by sound
Prized possession: A 1966 Corvette Stingray. During the winter, Jordan, ME’70, keeps it stored at the same auto museum in St. Louis where he bought it.
Read More »Rocky Mountain Section: Racing in the mountains
Inside the 60,000-square-foot climate-controlled Speed Raceway in Englewood, Colo., Rocky Mountain Section alumni felt the wind in their hair and the thrill of flying past fellow alumni for the title of “King/Queen of the Road.”
Read More »Hail to the (past) chiefs
It’s pretty easy to pick out the past presidents at any meeting of the Miner Alumni Association board of directors. They’re the ones seated together in the back corner of the Havener Center meeting room, where the directors gather for their spring and fall meetings.
Read More »LaBoube named to ‘Power List’
Structural Engineering and Design magazine named Roger LaBoube, CE’70, MS CE’73, PhD CE’77, to its 2011 “Power List.” Each year, the magazine recognizes 10 leaders in the structural engineering sector for developing solutions to some of the world’s toughest problems. LaBoube, an expert in cold-formed structural steel, is a Curators’ Teaching Professor emeritus at Missouri […]
Read More »Annual alumni reception at Boeing
Alumni of Missouri S&T who work at Boeing in St. Louis gathered at the company headquarters on Nov. 29 to meet interim Chancellor Warren K. Wray and other campus representatives as part of the Miner Alumni Association’s annual alumni reception. During his remarks to the group, Wray highlighted the importance of the collaborative relationship between […]
Read More »Cardinals connections
In Game 6 of the 2011 World Series, David Freese of the St. Louis Cardinals came to bat in the bottom of the ninth inning. You probably know the story. Trailing by a game to the Texas Rangers, the Cardinals were facing elimination. There were two outs and two men on base. Down to his […]
Read More »Honesty pays
Metallurgical engineering graduate student Michael Kuba, MetE’10, was walking with a friend in a campus parking lot during finals week when he noticed a credit union envelope on the ground. Inside the envelope — $500 cash.
Read More »Two S&T grads earn presidential honors
In September 2011, Andre Taylor, ChE’95, and Jeffrey Book, Phys’96, were among the 94 researchers selected to receive the Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers. Taylor is an assistant professor of chemical and environmental engineering at Yale University and Book is a principal investigator in the Physical Oceanographic Processes Section at Stennis Space […]
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