Spring 2016
NASA career rewarding for Leucht
Kurt W. Leucht, EE’94, has been working at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Merritt Island, Fla., for 25 years and has been writing software for large and small projects ever since.
Read More »Innovator envisions black Silicon Valley
Vewiser Dixon, ME’73, has big plans for his hometown of Kansas City.
Read More »St. Pat’s: S&T goes green
For a few days in March, the Missouri S&T campus — and the Rolla community — paint the town green for St. Pat’s. If you couldn’t make it back for the 108th St. Pat’s, here are a few scenes from this year’s Best Ever celebration.
Read More »In print
Gerald Cohen, professor of foreign languages and an expert in etymology, published Origin of the Term ‘Jazz.’
Jonathan Finch, a lecturer in philosophy, published A Crisis of Belief, Ethics and Faith.
John C. McManus, Curators’ Professor of history and political science, published Hell Before Their Very Eyes: American Soldiers Liberate Concentration Camps in Germany, April 1945.
David Wright, associate professor of English and technical communication, edited a book titled Communication Practices in Engineering, Manufacturing, and Research for Food and Water Safety. The book includes a chapter by Wright titled “Cowboys and Computers: Communicating National Animal Identification in the Beef Industry.”
Read More »Baking bridges
Kristen Donnell, MS EE’03, PhD EE’10, an assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering at Missouri S&T, is using microwave energy to test concrete and rehabilitated aluminum, and in the future her work could lead to safer bridges and aircraft parts.
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Eric Bohannan: Ever the Optimist
If you’re looking for Eric Bohannan, PhD Chem’99, on a Saturday morning, chances are, you’ll find him on a soccer field.
Read More »Manish Sharma: working to enjoy the ride
During high school, Manish Sharma often studied by candlelight. Power outages lasting six to eight hours a day were a fixture of hometown life in Khurja, India. For most of his peers, studying in America was a distant dream. But Sharma never gave up on his goal.
Read More »Partners for progress
Missouri S&T and Phelps County Regional Medical Center in Rolla are exchanging ideas and collaborating on research, education and technology transfer thanks to a memorandum of understanding (MOU) leaders from both groups signed last summer.
Read More »Saving the bats
White-nose syndrome kills bats by the millions. If not stopped, it could disrupt an entire ecosystem. But a group of Missouri S&T students learned that a compound found in citrus fruit can slow the disease.
Read More »To the editor
Ladies and Gents, The Fall/Winter 2015 issue of Missouri S&T Magazine has now made a quantum jump in significance, importance and intelligent reporting about issues and topics relating to alumni contributions. Obviously many other topics aside from the great inventors need to be addressed but the inclusion of these several alumni inventors is a great […]
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