Five Missouri S&T students placed second in the national finals of the Metcalf and Eddy Academic Design Contest. For the competition, the Missouri S&T team developed plans to upgrade an existing wastewater treatment facility in order to extend the life of the plant and meet newly implemented effluent standards.

If you’re using internet resources that send email to your @umr.edu address – such as Facebook, MySpace, Yahoo – you will have to log into each individual account and update your email address to the new @mst.edu address to receive mail from these sites after July 31.

Forty new transfer students and their guests will be on campus beginning at 10:30 a.m. Friday, June 27, for Transfer Advising Day. Students will meet with advisors, register for classes, and get ready for their first Missouri S&T semester this fall.

Services for Dr. Harry “Hank" Sauer, professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at Missouri S&T, who passed away June 17, are as follows: Visitation will be held from 5-7 p.m. Friday, June 20, at Null & Son Funeral Home, 1010 Kingshighway in Rolla. A Rosary service will begin at 5 p.m. The Mass of Christian […]

The Missouri S&T Staff Council and Retirees are sponsoring a "Salute a Veteran" blood drive from 11:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Tuesday, June 24, in St. Pat’s A & B in the Havener Center. Donors will receive a commemorative t-shirt and may dedicate donations to a current or former U.S. Armed Forces member. Bring in […]

Counseling and Disability Support Services and Student Health Services invite the S&T community to attend the health and wellness educator candidate presentations/open forums from 11 a.m. to noon Friday, June 27, Monday, June 30 and Tuesday, July 1 in the Havener Center. Each candidate will make a brief wellness-related presentation and will be available for […]

Congratulations to Ganesh Kumar Venayagamoorthy, associate professor of electrical and computer engineering, for achieving senior member status of the International Neural Network Society (INNS). Venayagamoorthy was one of 38 individuals recognized for significant contributions to the field.

Ed Finnell, senior inventory clerk for procurement, is retiring after 30 years of service to the university. The department will host a reception for Finnell from 2-4 p.m. Friday, June 20, in the Carver/Turner Room of the Havener Center. Please come by and wish him a happy retirement.

Congratulations to Dr. Petra DeWitt of the history department, winner of the third annual We Love Your Class award. The freshman engineering students nominated 23 instructors from nine departments. Other top nominees were Dr. Yinfa Ma, Dr. Ron Bieniek, Dr. Harvest Collier and Dr. W.J. Charatonik.

A memorial garden is planned to commemorate former chancellor Gary Thomas’s significant contribution to Missouri S&T. Dr. Thomas was an avid gardener and hired the university’s first landscape architect. The garden will be located between the Havener Center and Toomey Hall – two buildings he helped bring to our campus. Dr. Thomas said that when […]