The Obama for America campaign stop at Missouri S&T on Wednesday brought plenty of media attention to the campus and Rolla, as well as several media mentions of the new name. For a roundup of the media coverage that mentions Missouri S&T, visit the Missouri S&T online news clip site, http://del.icio.us/missourisandt/obama.
Recently in Missouri S&T in the News Category
Missouri S&T graduate student Parthiv Shah and his advisor, Dr. Elizabeth Cudney, were covered by the Malaysia Sun for their research to help predict future food shortages. Read the full story here.
Springfield, Mo., NBC affiliate KY3 interviewed Missouri S&T plumber Roy Snelson yesterday about his unique method of travel to work. Check out the story and video.
The Chicago Tribune picked up the story quoting Missouri S&T's resident hammock expert, Jim Bogan, Curators' Teaching Professor of art, languages and philosophy. This story also appeared in the Los Angeles Times. Read the full story here.
Missouri S&T has been in the news a lot lately. In terms of national visibility, the biggest bang (so to speak) comes from Time magazine, which will feature a brief about the camp in its June 30 edition, on newsstands soon.
Other recent news items:
- The sway of hammocks, quoting James Bogan and originally published in the Los Angeles Times, is repeated in Florida's Sun Sentinel newspaper. "In 1996, James Bogan, a professor at the Missouri University of Science and Technology, poet and frequent traveler to Brazil, wrote that even today, residents of the Amazon call their hammocks 'old mother,' a reference to the way hammocks seem to embrace and envelop sleepers in comforting arms."
- Copyright quiz limits students' music file sharing is the Newsweek pickup of an Associated Press story that has been covered by many news organizations across the nation.
- Across Missouri: Rolla man rides horse to save gas, about how Missouri S&T plumber Roy Snelson cuts down on his fuel bill, has been covered by The Kansas City Star and other media across the state.
Missouri S&T graduate Bob Kruse, EE'81, a General Motors in charge of hybrids and electric vehicles, was featured earlier this week on one of NBC Nightly News' "Running on Empty" segments about rising fuel costs. The segment focused on GM's development of alternative-fuel vehicles and included an interview with Kruse, who is executive director for Global Vehicle Engineering, Hybrids, Electric Vehicles and Batteries. View the segment online.
Jim Bogan, Curators' Teaching Professor of art, languages and philosophy, is not only the resident hammock expert at Missouri S&T (he made a movie about them). He's also one of the nation's most knowledgeable people when it comes discussing the swinging lounge. The Los Angeles Times has taken notice, and quotes Bogan extensively in a recent tribute to the hammock, Centuries later, the hammock is still swinging. "The hammock lives on, Bogan said by phone from his home in Rolla, Mo., 'because no one's ever invented anything better. And no one ever will.'"
Missouri S&T's Dr. J. David Rogers was interviewed by a New York Times reporter for a follow-up story in the International Herald Tribune about structural damage in the aftermath of the recent earthquake in China:
A dam can fail in slow motion, he said. "If they do have a leak, this thing could fail two weeks from now."
Read the full story here.
Karl Lutzen was interview for an Inside Higher Ed story about Missouri S&T's successs at minimizing copyright infringement (with respect to downloading copyrighted materials):
Karl F. Lutzen, a systems security analyst at the university, chalks it up to Missouri S&T’s unusual method of regulating students’ network usage: In order to download (or upload) files on any peer-to-peer network whatsoever, all on-campus users have to pass an online quiz on copyright infringement.
Read the full story here.
And Dr. David Summers was interviewed for a recent KY-3 story on ethanol.
Missouri S&T environmental engineering research Glenn Morrison is the author of the cover article for the latest issue of the journal Environmental Science and Technology. Morrison's article, Interfacial Chemistry in Indoor Environments, discusses the state of indoor ozone research. Read more on the Visions research blog.
Missouri S&T's earthquake experts have been busy analyzing last week's shake-up in the Midwest. Follow the coverage at Visions, S&T's research blog.
Missouri S&T's printing and mail services office was the subject of a recent magazine article highlighting the office's partnership with the University of Missouri printing service while keeping offset work in the in-plant arena to help fund its future growth. The article, In-plant Partnership, New Color Printer for Missouri University, was published in the latest issue of In-Plant Graphics magazine and is featured on the magazine's main website.
Dr. K. Krishnamurthy, vice provost for research, recently spoke about Missouri S&T's hydrogen-powered busses in Springfield:
"Part of the project is to find out the cost of using hydrogen as a fuel," he said. "It is going to be expensive for a while, but our goal is to reach a cost of between $1.75 and $4.75 per gallon of gasoline equivalent."
Read the full story in the Springfield News-Leader.
