A collection of the student, alumni, faculty and staff experiences
The group learns about the Battle of the Somme. Photos submitted
Fifteen students and two professors from Missouri S&T recently returned from three weeks spent abroad where they experienced French culture and witnessed the lingering effects of two world wars on the country. While there, they shared photos and blogged about their trip on the new Miners Abroad website.
S&T graduate Harry Laswell’s company sells a device that pairs two fundamental human inventions, the lever and the wheel, to help eliminate repetitive injuries for wheelchair users. Photos by Terry Barner
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The word “widget” often refers to a hypothetical or imaginary device. But Missouri S&T graduate Harry Laswell can easily describe the real-world benefit of his company’s mechanical doohickey.
Samantha Kempker spent a semester studying abroad in Greece last spring. Photos submitted
While studying abroad in Greece in the spring of 2012, Samantha Kempker visited the Oracle at Delphi, took a day trip to the ancient city-state of Sparta, feasted on genuine gyros, and visited the Lions Gate in Macedonia and the Temple of Poseidon. She rode on public transportation for the first time in her life, and she stayed in the same apartments that housed the 2004 U.S. Olympic team. She studied about 30 minutes from the center of that spring’s unrest in the Greek capital of Athens.
Michael Bouchard has a 15-year plan for personal success. Photo by B.A. Rupert
Do you know where you will be five years from now? How about 10 years from now? Michael Bouchard does. He has a 15-year plan for personal success and has carefully outlined every step required to get him there.
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Nikia Chapman after her first-place win in the women’s drag race last year in Toole, Utah. Photos by Bob Phelan
Stats: sophomore in geological engineering from Columbia, Mo.
Member of: Spelunking Club and Human-Powered Vehicle Team [Read more…]
Brian Peterson helped push the Miners to a record 10-1 season. Photo by B.A. Rupert
Brian Peterson’s dedication to football — and to Missouri S&T — helped push the Miners to a record 10-1 season and landed him on the Capital One Academic All-America team. He is only the 19th Miner in the history of the football program to be selected for this honor.
From left: Milana Taylor, Kathryn Hendricks and Mandy Grogg became the Army ROTC Stonehenge Battalion’s first all-female chain of command. Photos submitted
When Milana Taylor, Kathryn Hendricks and Mandy Grogg were appointed to lead the university’s Army ROTC Stonehenge Battalion last fall, the trio became the battalion’s first all-female chain of command. [Read more…]
Rebecca Mosley and James Veerkamp broadcast their radio show “First Invent the Universe” on KMNR. Photo by B.A. Rupert
Ph.D. student Casey Slaughter leads an all-student mine rescue team. Photo by B.A. Rupert
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The only sound in the darkened mine tunnel is water dripping off limestone walls. A lone injured miner lay motionless on the gravel floor. Five lights pierce the darkness as muffled voices announce the arrival of the rescue team.
Wan Yang (left) with Xiaorong Luo of the Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, at a site where they study sedimentary rocks in the Tarim Basin. Photo submitted
For most of the past decade, Wan Yang has spent his summers camping and hiking in the Bogda Mountains in northwest China, collecting rock samples that predate dinosaurs by millions of years. His goal? To better understand the Earth’s climate history and gain clues about future climate change. [Read more…]
Solar House project manager Emily Vandivert participated in the making of S&T’s video for the 2013 Climate Leadership Awards.
Missouri S&T’s Solar Village is one of the most innovative energy-saving programs on any college campus. That complex of four solar-powered homes — combined with S&T’s geothermal energy initiative — is the reason Missouri S&T is one of five Ph.D.-granting universities nominated for the 2013 Climate Leadership Awards.
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