Lamb selected to officiate national basketball tournament
Tyler Lamb, a senior in aerospace engineering, is one of four students selected as all-tournament officials at the Region IV NIRSA Basketball Tournament at Texas A&M in March. NIRSA was formerly an abbreviation for National Intramural-Recreational Sports Association.
Read More »Philosopher publishes on systemic terror in everyday life
The International Journal of Philosophical Practice published an article by Ross Channing Reed in its Fall 2017 issue. Reed is a lecturer of arts, languages and philosophy. His paper is titled “Depression, Anxiety, Powerlessness and Irrational Belief in Unlimited Individual Possibility as a Consequence of Ubiquitous Systemic Terror.”
Read More »What happens in Vegas … gets published
Dr. Larry Gragg penned a chapter titled “Avoid Advertising the Obvious: Gambling and the Chamber of Commerce Promotion of Las Vegas in the 1950s” for the book All In. Gragg is a Curators’ Distinguished Teaching Professor emeritus of history. The book is a collection of essays that explores five aspects of American gambling history: crime, advertising, politics, religion and identity.
Read More »Seven S&T staff selected for leadership development program
The University of Missouri System’s 2018 participants in the Dr. Elson S. Floyd Administrative Leadership Development Program (ALDP) have been selected. Participants include administrative staff members at the four UM System campuses, the University of Missouri System and the University of Missouri Health System. The ALDP supports an annual cohort of 30-35 administrative leaders. Missouri S&T participants in the 2018 cohort are:
Read More »Nesbitt named ‘Missouri Mother of the Year’
American Mothers Inc. named Joan Nesbitt Missouri Mother of the Year. Nesbitt is the vice chancellor for University Advancement at S&T. Along with honorees from each state, District of Columbia and Puerto Rico, Nesbitt will be honored at the American Mothers National Convention April 22-24 in Washington, D.C.
Read More »Oerther elected vice chair of Phelps County Extension Council
Dr. Daniel Oerther, professor of environmental health engineering, has been elected to a three-year term on the Phelps County Extension Council. His term as vice chair began in March and will run through February 2019.
Read More »S&T student, professor highlighted in UM System newsletter
Eli Rychtarczyk, a junior in minor engineering, and Dr. Jessica Cundiff, assistant professor of psychological science, are featured in the March issue of the University of Missouri System newsletter, Campus Highlights.
Read More »In the News: NSBE convention, MBA education, Rolla mural, smart rocks
- The Pittsburgh Courier News staff recently published photos of attendees at the National Society of Black Engineers’ 44th annual convention in Pittsburgh March 21-25. Among those pictured are Keelen Jones, a freshman engineering student at Missouri S&T, with MU engineering students Raphael Hutchins and Marlon Taylor.
Diversity, inclusion mini-grants available for faculty
The Missouri S&T Chancellor’s Committee for Diversity and Inclusion invites faculty to submit proposals for diversity and inclusion mini-grants. These grants will provide faculty with funding to develop appropriate ways to introduce diversity and inclusion elements into existing courses. Up to six awards of $2,500 are available for courses and projects that offer new or substantially redesigned units or significant activities that discuss or promote diversity and inclusion.
Read More »Smart living candidate to present seminar April 4
Dr. Venkata Sriram Siddhardh Nadendla will present “Towards the Design of Cyber-Physical-Human Systems from Security and Behavioral Viewpoints,” at 10 a.m. Wednesday, April 4, in Room 209 Computer Science Building. Nadendla is a postdoctoral research associate at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a smart living faculty candidate at S&T.
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