Summer 2020
Engineering a glider
Bruce Wundrack, CE’82, recently shared this photo of his grandfather, Aaron J. Miles, ME’30, MS ME’31, former S&T faculty member and first dean of the School of Engineering, flying a homemade glider in Rolla in the 1930s. The story passed down to Wundrack details a doomed flight that started when a group of students used […]
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Symposium honors Delbert Day
Delbert E. Day, CerE’58, was honored during a symposium named for him in July 2019 in Toronto. Researchers discussed work similar or related to Day’s research, and talked about how their personal relationships with Day have influenced them.
Read More »Yeung starts new position at S&T
San Yeung, PhD CSci’19, joined the S&T faculty as an assistant teaching professor of computer science. He was formerly a graduate research assistant at S&T. Yeung’s research interests include personalized learning, smart computing with artificial intelligence and data science, and green computing.
Read More »Red Feather publishes book
Stephanie Red Feather, AMth’92, published a book titled The Evolutionary Empath in November 2019. The metaphysical book focuses on what Red Feather describes as “heart-centered consciousness.” After serving 10 years in the U.S. Air Force, she earned master’s and doctoral degrees in shamanic studies. Today she is a metaphysical author, teacher,healer, non-traditional/non-denominational minister, and founder […]
Read More »O’Keefe named dean at Kansas State
Matthew J. O’Keefe, MetE’85, was named dean of the Carl R. Ice College of Engineering at Kansas State University. As part of the appointment, O’Keefe will hold the LeRoy C. and Aileen H. Paslay Chair in Engineering.
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Is there nickel in ‘them thar hills’?
Major discoveries of metals with scientific and economic significance — metals like nickel, copper and platinum — are becoming few and far between, which seems to suggest that most deposits that are easy to access have already been found.
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A crime to remember
Mississippi native Trent Brown was born in McComb, a town of 10,000 he calls “a remarkably violent place in the 1960s.” It’s also where a 12-year-old named Tina Andrews was murdered in 1969. After two extensive murder trials that ended in a mistrial in 1971 and resulted in an acquittal in 1972, her case remains […]
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