Fall/Winter 2015
Homecoming 2015: MinerFest in review
The Miners came from behind in the second half of the Homecoming football game to beat McKendree University 34-27. The Chancellor’s Advisory Committee on African-American Recruitment and Retention celebrated its 30th anniversary during Homecoming. Gregory Skannal, GeoE’85, and Joan Montague, CSci’95, reminisce at the CACAARR Tailgate. Spectators lined the Rolla streets to watch the first-ever MinerFest Homecoming […]
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Honoring Miner legends
During Homecoming, the Miner Alumni Association honored seven Miners for their accomplishments and their devotion to the association, the campus and its students.
Read More »Making research more accessible
Military historian John C. McManus is conducting research for a new two-volume history of the U.S. Army in the Pacific and Asian theater during World War II through a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), which wants to make scholarly research more accessible to the public.
Read More »Schrenk Hall facelift
Schrenk Hall’s 83,000-square-foot west wing will get a much-needed facelift next fall thanks to $12 million in state capital improvement funding — the first capital funds to come to Missouri S&T in more than a decade. Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon signed the bill in June. The University of Missouri System and Missouri S&T will contribute […]
Read More »Walking the mall
For the first time in several years, the main campus mall was free of construction when classes started in August. Throughout the installation of equipment for the geothermal energy project, which included digging 789 wells on campus, construction was a constant. At the end of the first year of operation, the geothermal energy system exceeded […]
Read More »Record: broken
In August, nearly 8,900 students started classes at Missouri S&T and broke the previous enrollment record, set in 2014. That total included 1,491 first-year and transfer students, which also shattered the previous record. That one had held since 1981.
Read More »Bertelsmeyer Hall earns LEED Silver certification
James E. Bertelsmeyer Hall, S&T’s chemical and biochemical engineering building, was recently awarded LEED Silver certification from the U.S. Green Building Council.
Read More »A golden year for computer science
This past fall, S&T’s computer science department kicked off a year-long celebration honoring the 50th anniversary of the computer science degree program, the first of its kind in the state. Check out more photos from the program’s history at cs.mst.edu/50years/timeline.
Read More »Dear Alumni and Friends
Miner alumni are an inventive bunch. From everyday innovations — toothbrushes and vacuum cleaners, driving machines and washing machines — to industrial, medical and digital advances, to the unusual and unheralded, Missouri S&T graduates have put their brains to work to make things better.
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MEM’s the word
Missouri S&T is the only university in America to offer mechanical earth modeling (MEM) as part of the undergraduate petroleum engineering curriculum. Now with a $225,000 gift from Chevron through its University Partnership Program, S&T is one step closer to establishing a MEM Center of Excellence to build the program.
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