Spring 2017
Alumna honored at Women of Color STEM Conference
Raquel P. Cundiff, ME’93, received the Community Service-Industry Award at the 2016 Women of Color STEM Conference, held in October in Detroit. Cundiff is a customer engineering manager with Boeing.
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Katie Payne — future M.D.
The daughter of a logger and a school teacher, Katie Payne, BSci’14, knew she wanted to make a big impact on the world, but it took an anatomy class at Cuba (Mo.) High School to guide her decision to go into medicine.
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Return to the cave
Chances are, if you went to school in Rolla during the 1960s and early ’70s, you probably heard, or maybe even partied to the music of the Jaguars and Miller’s Cave.
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Safer mines and cleaner water in Ghana
As a doctoral student in mining engineering, Kenneth Bansah works, learns and lives nearly 10,000 miles from his boyhood home of Tarkwa, Ghana, a gold mining hub in western Africa.
Read More »Q&A: Why Rolla?
“Why did you choose to attend MSM-UMR-Missouri S&T?” Historian Larry Gragg, Curators’ Distinguished Teaching Professor of history and political science, posed this question to Miner alumni this past fall. Here are a few of your answers:
Read More »S&T garners national recognition for fundraising program
Missouri S&T was recognized this past fall by the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) for excellence in fundraising.
Read More »Watkins to lead IEEE-HKN
Steve E. Watkins, EE’83, MS EE’85, professor of electrical and computer engineering at Missouri S&T, is the 2017 president-elect of IEEE-Eta Kappa Nu, the honor society of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. He will serve as president January–December 2018. Watkins, who is a co-advisor for the S&T student chapter of IEEE-HKN, is editor-in-chief […]
Read More »Save the date: Homecoming 2017
Make plans now to return to Rolla for Homecoming 2017 Oct. 27–28. Reconnect with former classmates and enjoy the Miner spirit! More details will be published in the summer issue of Missouri S&T Magazine.
Read More »Russo touts IT as an exciting, attainable career
Last October, Sophie Russo, Psyc’11, participated in a panel at the University of Missouri-St. Louis highlighting perspectives on the challenges women and minorities face when considering technology for study and employment. Russo earned a master of science degree in management information systems from UMSL in 2016.
Read More »Elgin named Surveyor of the Year
Richard L. “Dick” Elgin, CE’74, MS CE’76, was named Surveyor of the Year by the Missouri Society of Professional Surveyors. Elgin is semi-retired from Archer-Elgin Engineering, Surveying and Architecture, and is an adjunct professor at Missouri S&T, where he teaches the civil engineering department’s required surveying course. He authored The U.S. Public Land Survey System […]
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