Dan Oerther wants to help East Africans help themselves. He is working to bring clean water, food and income to an area that is suffering from the worst drought in decades.

William Schonberg says academia is cool because you usually get to research what you’re really curious about. The chair of civil, architectural and environmental engineering likes to study high-speed impacts — specifically, those caused by space debris.

Missouri has more than 3,000 miles of rivers and Rajiv Mishra wants to use them to harness energy and decrease dependence on power currently derived from coal and nuclear plants.

A new biography released by two S&T historians examines the life and political career of President John F. Kennedy. In it, authors Michael E. Meagher and Larry D. Gragg look at the choices Kennedy made during his brief tenure, including civil rights, the Cuban Missile Crisis and the “space race.”

In the house of the future, built-in sensors will measure the weather outside and automatically adjust indoor air temperatures. Homeowners will be able to monitor the system with their smartphones.

If there’s one lesson that transportation engineers want drivers to learn, it’s to pay attention while driving in construction zones. That’s why Ghulam Bham, assistant professor of civil, architectural and environmental engineering, and his students are studying the effectiveness of dynamic variable message signs that are often used in highway work zones.