Accomplishments
Pickerill on track to lead national association
Dr. Heath Pickerill, assistant teaching professor in civil, architectural and environmental engineering and director of Missouri’s Local Technical Assistant Program (LTAP), was elected to the president’s track of the National Local Technical Assistance Program Association (NLTAPA) at the group’s annual conference held recently in Seattle.
Read More »Betz earns recertification as financial aid administrator
In 2019, Bridgette Betz, director of student financial assistance at Missouri S&T, earned the FAAC designation through the Certified Financial Aid Administrator Program by the National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators. She was one of the first 75 financial aid administrators in the United States to earn this designation.
Read More »In the news
Dr. Mehrzad Boroujerdi, dean of the College of Arts, Sciences, and Education, discussed the political relationship of the World Cup match between Iran and the U.S. in Haartez’s story “Political Football: U.S. and Iran Prepare for Historic World Cup Match.”
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ECE team wins award in hydropower optimization
A team from electrical and computer engineering led by Dr. Rui Bo, assistant professor, won $1,000 in phase one of the Hydropower Operations Optimization Prize.
Read More »Huang presents at National Taiwan Normal University
Dr. Yue-Wern Huang, professor of biological sciences, was invited to visit the College of Science of National Taiwan Normal University (NTNU) on June 16-17 to give a scientific presentation as well as interact with faculty and students for possible graduate studies and research collaboration at Missouri S&T.
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S&T ranked a top five university for engineering
Missouri S&T is ranked fifth in the nation for students interested in engineering and is ranked first in Missouri, according to Money’s “Best Colleges for Engineering Majors.”
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S&T team takes third in international competition
The Mars Rover Design Team at Missouri S&T was among the top finishers in the annual University Rover Challenge, an international competition held at the Mars Desert Research Station in Hanksville, Utah. The Missouri S&T team came in third overall in the event, which was won by a team from the University of Michigan.
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McManus receives Army Historical Foundation award
Dr. John C. McManus, Curators’ Distinguished Professor of history and political science at Missouri S&T, has received the Army Historical Foundation’s Distinguished Writing Award in the category of Operational/Battle History for his book Island Infernos: The US Army’s Pacific War Odyssey, 1944.
Read More »Paper by chemistry researchers published in ‘Inorganic Chemistry’
Dr. Vadym Mochalin, an associate professor of chemistry and materials science and engineering, and Dr. Shuohan Huang, a doctoral graduate in chemistry, recently published a paper titled “Combination of High pH and an Antioxidant Improves Chemical Stability of Two-Dimensional Transition-Metal Carbides and Carbonitrides (#MXenes) in Aqueous Colloidal Solutions”.
Read More »Mochalin presented lecture at International Ceramics Congress
Dr. Vadym Mochalin, associate professor of chemistry and materials science and engineering, presented an invited lecture, titled “MXene Chemistry: Fundamentals and Applications” at the15th International Ceramics Congress in Perugia, Italy, on June 24.
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