Spring 2014
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Dr. Cheryl B Shrader of @MissouriSandT– named @IEEEorg Fellow! http://t.co/rXTO5Ncc1a via @RollaDailyNews– Congrats, @SandTChancellor! — STEMconnector (@STEMconnector) January 22, 2014 A great #MLKDay2014! Got to see @MissouriSandT students working at @yourpartnership Resale Shop & Newburg Children's Museum today! #awesome — M. P. Edwardsšāļøš§ (@ozarkswriter) January 21, 2014 Last night a mom stopped me at the […]
Read More Ā»Letter from the editor
The crossroads Our campus has a proud tradition of equipping our students with a practical, applied education. Itās a tradition that began with our founding as a land grant institution ā a response to the westward expansion fueled by the Industrial Revolution. Over the century that followed, Missouri S&T became a full-fledged research university, coming […]
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‘Inventern’ finalist
Ron Erickson, ISTā11, is building his own rally car from the ground up. By himself. The project got him noticed by MythBusters star Adam Savage, who held a contest last fall to find the next āInventernā for his website tested.com.
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Rolla grads play key roles in I-70 bridge construction
A number of Rolla graduates were involved in building the new Stan Musial Veterans Memorial Bridge, which crosses the Mississippi River connecting downtown St. Louis and southwestern Illinois via Interstate Highway 70. The bridge opened to traffic on Feb. 9.
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Menās basketball player named Academic All-America of the Year
Bryce Foster, a senior in business and management systems from Florissant, Mo., is the Capital One Academic All-America of the Year award winner for NCAA Division II menās basketball as selected by the College Sports Information Directors of America. He was chosen for the Academic All-America first team.
Read More Ā»A passion for fitness
Michael Wuest, Busā07, MBAā08, is campus dining services marketing manager at the University of Missouri-Columbia and now also an owner, manager and trainer at CrossFit COMO in Columbia. He founded the gym with a friend in June 2013. āWhen I came to Mizzou in 2011, I was reintroduced to CrossFit through the ā300ā workout (the […]
Read More Ā»In print
Aluminum Recycling (2nd Ed.) by Mark E. Schlesinger, professor of metallurgical engineering, was published in December by CRC Press. Experimental Russian Verb Modification Dictionary, by Irina V. Ivliyeva, associate professor of Russian, was published in December by Azbukovnik Publishing House.
Read More Ā»S&T to lead transportation consortium
Missouri S&T is leading a consortium of four universities that will share $1.4 million per year through a two-year grant authorized by Congress under the Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century Act (MAP-21).
Read More Ā»Going green can save green
The energy efficiencies of a solar house can result in significant energy savings and save homeowners money in the long run, says Samantha Wermager, a senior in civil engineering. Wermager performed an energy analysis of S&Tās 2013 solar house with her advisor Stuart Baur, an associate professor of civil, architectural and environmental engineering. Their research […]
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Recovering from disaster
Nearly three years after a major tornado destroyed much of Joplin, Mo., former Joplin resident Suzanna Long created a process to help communities recover quickly from large-scale natural disasters.
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