Missouri S&T’s new Applied Research Center expansion is moving forward and will be completed in January 2027. The renovation and expansion of what used to be the Engineering Research Lab was made possible through the support of the Kummer Missouri S&T Foundation and state funding. The updated facility will foster interdisciplinary collaboration through S&T’s network of research centers. The spaces will be open to faculty, staff and students across all disciplines. 

The top floor of the ARC expansion will be home to CATALYS&T ARC, a dedicated hub for commercializing S&T technologies, extending the CATALYS&T incubator system at the Technology Development Center and the Missouri Protoplex, and supporting the Kummer mandate to enhance economic activity. 

This “innovation suite” includes offices, a conference room and four labs equipped with chemical hoods, lab benches and service lines to support a range of research activities — providing faculty, staff and students with the resources they need to bring research ideas to market.

The Kummer Foundation also supported the construction of the cleanroom facility on the ground floor of the ARC expansion, along with some of the processing and characterization equipment that will be located there. These capabilities will not only advance S&T research into nano- and microdevices and materials, but will also support the new semiconductor engineering program that begins this semester.

For further information about Kummer-supported programming in the ARC, contact Dr. Richard Brow, executive director of operations for the Kummer Institute and Curators’ Distinguished Professor of materials science and engineering.