Eight Missouri S&T faculty were honored with the 2017-18 Sustained Excellence in Outstanding Teaching Award at S&T’s faculty awards banquet on Dec. 4.
Read More »Dr. Petra DeWitt’s article, “Faith and Country: How Jews Found Unity in World War I” was recently published in Gateway, the magazine of the Missouri Historical Society. The article looks at how patriotism helped bridge ethnic and religious divides in the St. Louis Jewish community.
Read More »Dr. Petra DeWitt, assistant professor of history and political science, presented a talk about the Central Powers during World War I at the National World War I Museum in Kansas City on Oct. 6.
Read More »Petra DeWitt’s article, “Heroines on the Home Front: World War I and the Council of National Defense’s Woman’s Committee, Missouri Division,” is featured in the April issue of the Missouri Historical Review.
Read More »Join the College of Arts, Sciences, and Business for the next Research on Tap lecture at 4:30 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 24, on the second-floor loft of Public House Brewing Co. in Rolla. Dr. Petra DeWitt, an assistant professor of history, will present “Courage, Duty, Patriotism: The Missouri Home Guard during the Great War.”
Read More »The University of Missouri Research Board recently awarded grants to seven Missouri S&T faculty members in the College of Arts, Sciences, and Business. The 12-month grants provide seed money for research initiatives in the categories of humanities, fine arts, social sciences and behavioral sciences. The recipients and their projects are:
Read More »Forty-one faculty members have received the Outstanding Teaching Award for 2016-17. The winners were recognized at a ceremony in November. The Outstanding Teaching Award is given each year to faculty members by the Outstanding Teaching Award committee, which bases its selections on student evaluations.
Read More »Dr. Petra deWitt, assistant professor of history and political science, will present “Courage, Duty, Patriotism: The Missouri Home Guard during the Great War” at 11 a.m. Thursday, Nov. 16, at Mineral Area College’s C.H. Cozean Library in Park Hills, Missouri.
Read More »Twenty-four Missouri S&T faculty members were honored for excellence and achievement in research, service and teaching during an awards ceremony Feb. 21 on campus. Each award winner received a monetary stipend funded by industry and alumni contributions. View photos from the event on Missouri S&T’s Flickr account. The 2016 Faculty Excellence Award was presented to:
Read More »Dr. Petra DeWitt, an assistant professor of history and political science, published a peer-reviewed article titled “ ‘Clear and Present Danger’: The Legacy of the 1917 Espionage Act in the United States,” in Vol. 42, Issue 2, Summer 2016, of Historical Reflections/Reflexions Historiques. The journal publishes articles in English and French and is committed to interdisciplinary studies as well as comparative approaches.
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