Diana Ahmad
Talk goes to the prairie dogs
All are invited to the next Research on Tap lecture at 6 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 23, in the loft of Public House Brewing Co. in Rolla. Dr. Diana Ahmad, Curators’ Distinguished Teaching Professor of history, will give a talk titled “Prairie Dogs: Symbols of a Growing Nation.”
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Scoundrel or gentleman? Ahmad publishes on Navy captain
Dr. Diana Ahmad’s article, “Scoundrel or Gentleman: The Reign of Captain Benjamin Franklin Tilley, U.S.N., on American Samoa, 1900-1901,” was published in the Spring 2018 issue of The Nautilus. Ahmad gives an account of Tilley’s time in American Samoa, which was not the typical story of Western interactions with Pacific Islanders.
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Ahmad to discuss history, S&T in Japan
Dr. Diana Ahmad, Curators’ Distinguished Teaching Professor of history, has been invited to teach university classes for one week in July at the Hachinohe Institute of Technology (HIT) in Hachinohe, Japan.
Read More »‘We Love Your Class Award’ goes to Winiarz
Freshmen engineering students recently cast their votes for their favorite teacher. Dr. Jeffrey Winiarz, associate professor of chemistry, received the Freshman Engineering Program’s “We Love Your Class” award for the 2017-18 academic year. Other nominees, listed in alphabetical order, include:
Read More »In the News: TV tower collapse, career skills, civil rights activist, Benton mural, naked mountain man
- When a television tower in Webster County collapsed on April 19, reporters at the Springfield News-Leader sought the structural engineering expertise of Dr. John Myers. The article, 1,980-foot TV Tower Collapse in Webster County; 1 Dead, Several Injured, Officials Say, was published April 19 and updated April 20. Myers is a professor of civil engineering and associate dean of the College of Engineering and Computing. Read More »
S&T faculty receive grants for affordable, open educational resources
Six Missouri S&T faculty are working to help students save money on textbooks with grants from the University of Missouri System. The grants are provided through the UM System Affordable & Open Educational Resources (A&OER) initiative. The program encourages faculty experimentation and innovation in finding new, better and less costly ways to deliver learning materials to students. The grants are awarded for three levels of costs and cost savings. The levels and S&T faculty recipients are:
Read More »In the news: 500-year storm, Guam, HKN, probiotics helping trees, startups
- Robert Holmes, adjunct professor of civil, architectural and environmental engineering and national flood hazard coordinator for U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), discusses the data behind Hurricane Harvey with the Houston Chronicle. The article, “Havey has been called a 500-year storm. Here’s what that means,” was published Aug. 30. Read More »
Ahmad speaks at conference in Great Britain
Dr. Diana Ahmad, Curators’ Distinguished Teaching Professor of history and political science, presented “Prairie Dogs: The Animals of Manifest Destiny,” at the third Global Conference on the Animal and Human Bond at Mansfield College, Oxford, Great Britain, in September.
Read More »Ahmad publishes article in ‘Nevada in the West’
Dr. Diana Ahmad, Curators’ Teaching Professor of history and political science, has had an article published in the magazine Nevada in the West. Ahmad’s article, titled “Mollie Forshay: Not as Guilty As Many Might Hope,” is in volume seven, number two; pages 18-23.
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