Spring 2016
Oval Office honors
Elizabeth (Gearon) Parry, EMgt’83, pictured fifth from the left, is one of 14 recipients of the Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics and Engineering Mentoring in 2015, presented by President Barack Obama. Parry teaches first-year engineering design at North Carolina State University, and she helps elementary and middle school teachers in teaching engineering to […]
Read More »Hitting the sweet spot
While some undergraduate students peer through microscopes or write computer programs for their research projects, senior Arielle Bodine made the world of professional golf her laboratory. The applied math and economics double major recently took an eagle-eyed look at the factors that led Phil Mickelson and 46 other top professional golfers to pick up valuable […]
Read More »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.
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