Profiles
Taking on a castle
Daniel Edwards, ArchE’11 (above right), and his wife, Ebony (Burnside) Edwards, have a vision of restoring an old workhouse castle located at 2001 Vine St. in Kansas City, Mo. Their story was featured in the May 20 issue of The Kansas City Star.
Read More »Schriewer creates STLcoin
Move over, Bitcoin. Now St. Louis has its own crypto-currency, STLcoin. Created by Rick Schriewer, EE’98, STLcoin launched on Jan. 14, 2014.
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Tony Kaczmarek: Touchdown for student health
When Missouri S&T upgraded its Student Health Services Center four years ago, former Miner football player and Rolla physician Dr. Tony Kaczmarek, LSci’87, saw an opportunity to improve the facility for Missouri S&T’s current student-athletes.
Read More »Woehl receives 2014 Munir Award
Taylor Woehl, CerE’09, received the 2014 Zuhair A. Munir Best Dissertation Award from the University of California, Davis. Woehl earned his doctorate in chemical engineering in September 2013. His dissertation is titled “Direct Observations of Colloidal and Nanoparticle Behavior in the Presence of External Fields.”
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Melissa Elder: selfless actions, global impact
For Melissa Elder, Honduras is more than just another place on the map. It inspired her career path and her research focus. It’s also her mother’s homeland.
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Steve Parks: ‘failure is just feedback’
Steve Parks, EMgt’82, wants Missouri S&T students to discover who they are much earlier than he did. One of the first graduates of S&T’s Minority Engineering Program, Parks says he felt like an outsider when he came to the university. At least two instructors told him that he wouldn’t graduate.
Read More »Doctoral student an ASTRO participant
Vaibhav Khane, MS NucE’07, MS ChE’12, PhD ChE’14, recently spent seven months working on models for a new low-enriched uranium core for Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s High Flux Isotope Reactor as part of its Advanced Short-Term Research Opportunity (ASTRO) Program. Khane used multi-physics codes to model designs to replace the reactor’s current highly enriched uranium […]
Read More »Fond memories of the Quad
Jamie (Johnson) Farrell, ECE’01, recently shared a story of how she met her husband, Shannon, when she lived in Kelly Hall.
Read More »From engineer to movie producer
After a 38-year career in mechanical engineering, John Weekley, ME’74, sold his process control company, PROCONEX, in 2011 to pursue a career in the film industry as a movie producer.
Read More »Long-lost civilization sparks book
A newspaper article about an archaeological dig in Chesterfield, Mo., gave Ellen M. (Monti) Meyer, CSci’77, the idea for her first novel, Chronicle of the Mound Builders: An Angela Hunter Mystery.
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