Gary White: Water warrior

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S&T grad Gary White visits with children in Tigray, Ethiopia. Photos courtesy of Water.org

In 1984, Gary White traveled to Guatemala with a student organization that he had established for students who wanted to volunteer for development projects around the world.

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Standard bearer

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Zack Gronek was one of the top pitchers in the GLVC last season. Photo by B.A. Rupert

Zack Gronek hopes to parlay his team’s success as well as his own into a memorable 2012 season for the Miner baseball team.

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Some cool kids get a kick out of robots

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Miriah Anderson in the lab with one of the S&T Robotics Team robots. Photo by B.A. Rupert

Miriah Anderson likes robots.

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Lelia Thompson Flagg: Breaking barriers

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Lelia Thompson Flagg was the first African American to graduate from Missouri S&T. Photo by B.A. Rupert

Lelia Thompson Flagg was not the first African American student to enroll at this university. But she was the first to graduate, receiving her bachelor of science degree in civil engineering from the Missouri School of Mines (as S&T was then known) in 1960.

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Grace Ella Harper

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Grace Ella Harper, Missouri S&T student, laying pipe in Honduras with Engineers Without Borders. Photo submitted

Grace Ella Harper, graduate student in environmental engineering

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Brice Curtin

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Brice Curtin, Missouri S&T student. Photo by B.A. Rupert

Brice Curtin, senior in chemistry

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Alex Bertels

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Alex Bertels, Missouri S&T student. Photo by B.A. Rupert

Alex Bertels: junior in computer science

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Christopher Allen

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Christopher Allen (center front) with fellow military personnel. Photo submitted

Christopher Allen, senior in civil engineering

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Steve Sullivan: making magic

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S&T graduate Steve Sullivan with some characters he helped create. Photo by Steve Jennings

Entertainment Weekly called Davy Jones from the Pirates of the Caribbean one of the most convincing computer-generated characters in film history. The technology used to create that character and many others was developed with the assistance of S&T grad Steve Sullivan, winner of three Academy Awards.

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S&T researcher takes on Fight Club

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Olivia Burgess studies utopian and dystopian themes in Chuck Palahniuk’s novel. Photo by B. A. Rupert

The first rule of Fight Club, according to Olivia Burgess, is that we are driven by our own personal utopian ideas, regardless if they end up creating dystopia.

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Courtside lifesavers

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Athletic trainers Samantha Welter (left) and Elizabeth Sisemore with the automated external defibrillator. Photo by B.A. Rupert

When athletic trainers go through certification to administer cardiopulmonary resuscitation or use an automated external defibrillator (AED), they rarely think they will actually have to use that training in real life.

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