Features
Paying it forward
Without the help of scholarships, Danny Ryan, ME’10, and Lance Weinmann, CE’10, ArchE’10, couldn’t have made it through college. To them, the alumni who founded their scholarships are heroes, and today, Ryan and Weinmann are doing their part to be heroes to the next generation of Missouri S&T students.
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On the horizon
Thanks to the generosity of 22,000 alumni and friends, Missouri S&T’s future has never looked brighter. Nearly 20 percent of alumni — double the national average of 10 percent— contribute each year, supporting one of the nation’s broadest arrays of engineering disciplines.
Read More »Full circle: Class ring comes home
In the fall of 1986, Joe Anselmo was performing a routine maintenance sweep of the sewers in the North St. Louis County city of Normandy, Mo., for the Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District. Anselmo was inspecting and cleaning a sanitary manhole near Bermuda Road, removing debris from a basket that collects waste, when he found […]
Read More »For David Deatherage, the past is always present
David Deatherage, EMgt’92, is a professional shopper. He goes to estate sales, auctions and antique shows, always on the lookout for vintage furniture. It was a passion that started back in Rolla after he rented an apartment in an old house that had been divided. The shag carpet and window shades were turquoise. He says […]
Read More »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.
Read More »Winging it over Kitty Hawk
“We ran up and down the dunes like crazy people, trying to figure it out,” says John Harris, GeoE’70, of his first hang gliding attempts in 1973.
Read More »Snakeasaurus: S&T grad makes a BIG discovery
As miners dig deeper and deeper into an open coal pit in Colombia, millions of years of history are displaced. On a fossil-hunting expedition to one of these pits in 2006, Carlos Jaramillo’s team found some big bones that belonged to a super-sized creature.
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The great power play: Can America really move to a low-carbon economy?
When you talk to Wayne Laufer about the future of wind and solar power, don’t refer to those forms of power generation as “alternative” energy.
Read More »Where it comes from, where it goes
Petroleum, coal and natural gas combined to provide more than 83 percent of the energy generated in the United States in 2008, as the flow chart below illustrates. Meanwhile, three of the most talked-about renewable energy sources – wind, solar and biomass – combined to create just 12.4 percent of all generated energy. While more […]
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