Accomplishments
A shot above the rest: Owen Fraser wins national title, keeps 4.0 GPA
Missouri S&T now has a national champion in shot put: Owen Fraser. Fraser is the first national champion in the shot put and first indoor national champion in S&T program history with a throw of 19.25 meters during the NCAA Division II Indoor Championships in March.
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S&T PetroBowl team wins North American championship
Petroleum engineering students from Missouri S&T have proven they are the best in North America when it comes to trivia related to their major. The Missouri S&T PetroBowl team won the 2026 Society of Petroleum Engineers North America Student Symposium PetroBowl championship, held Feb. 28 at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge.
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Missouri S&T students exhibit research to state legislators
Nine undergraduate students from Missouri S&T traveled to Jefferson City on March 12 to participate in Undergraduate Research Day at the Missouri State Capitol. The event, which is designed to inform Missouri’s lawmakers about research at Missouri universities, welcomes undergraduate students from all four University of Missouri System campuses.
Read More »Research paper examines AI adoption in organ procurement
Amaneh Babaee, a Ph.D. student in engineering management, along with Dr. Daniel Shank, associate professor of psychological science, and Dr. Casey Canfield, associate professor of engineering management and systems engineering, published a paper in Digital Health examining artificial intelligence adoption by organ procurement professionals.
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Hacking heroes: Students earn multiple hackathon wins
A trio of computer science students from Missouri S&T have earned top honors in several hackathon-style events over the past six months — most recently at the Midwest Blockathon hosted earlier this month by the University of Kansas Blockchain Institute.
Read More »Reed publishes essay in ‘Pittsburgh Review of Books’
Dr. Ross Channing Reed, lecturer in philosophy, published an essay in Pittsburgh Review of Books titled “The overweening pride of the masters of the universe.”
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S&T students advance to health challenge semi-finals
Three teams of Missouri S&T students and alumni have advanced to the semi-finals of the Global Health Innovation Grand Challenge hosted by the Carle Illinois College of Medicine.
Read More »Historian appears as expert on History Channel series
Dr. Larry Gragg, Curators’ Distinguished Teaching Professor Emeritus of history and university historian, appeared as an expert on three consecutive episodes of History’s Greatest Mysteries that aired March 9.
Read More »Faculty and student publish wind tunnel modeling research
Dr. Davide Viganò, assistant professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, and Noah Cain, a senior in aerospace engineering, published “Improved modeling of blow-down supersonic wind tunnels” in The Aeronautical Journal.
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Working paper explores origins of Linear B characters
Posted by Kimber Crull on April 7, 2026
Dr. Gerald Cohen, professor of Russian and German, published “Reflections on Linear B (part 14) – Sign 76 (with two parallel wavy lines pronounced /ra/); possible derivation from the river traveled nightly by the sun god Ra” in Comments on Etymology in February.
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