ROLLA, Missouri, April 11 -- Missouri University of Science and Technology issued the following news: Drs. Lana Alagha and Guang Xu have been appointed Robert H. Quenon Associate Professors of Mining Engineering at Missouri S&T. Alagha has been a member of the Missouri S&T faculty since 2012, when she was hired as an assistant professor and the first full-time female mining engineering faculty member in the history of the department. In 2018, she was promoted to associate professor. Her Queno  more

ROLLA, Missouri, April 11 (TNSres) -- Missouri University of Science and Technology issued the following news: By Greg Edwards What do Missouri S&T researchers do when they want to study the impact of tractor-trailers colliding into bridges? They bring the collisions to the university's campus with a massive setup that, at first glance, looks like a red roller coaster. Over the past few years, a team of researchers led by Dr. Mohamed ElGawady, a professor of civil engineering and Kaplan Facu  more

ROLLA, Missouri, April 11 (TNSres) -- Missouri University of Science and Technology issued the following news: By Velvet Hasner Undergraduate students from Missouri University of Science and Technology traveled to Jefferson City, Missouri, on April 4 to participate in the annual Undergraduate Research Day at the Capitol. The event, which is designed to inform Missouri's lawmakers about research at Missouri universities, welcomes undergraduate students from all four University of Missouri Syst  more

WEST PLAINS, Missouri, April 11 -- Missouri State University's West Plains Campus issued the following news release: Nicklaus Martin, a 2015 graduate of Missouri State University-West Plains and sound designer with Source Sound, Inc., in Springfield, will give the keynote address at the campus' 2024 commencement ceremony. The event begins at 2 p.m. Saturday, May 11, in the West Plains Civic Center arena. The Thayer native will discuss the useful things he learned about navigating life as a yo  more

JEFFERSON CITY, Missouri, April 11 -- Gov. Michael Parson, R-Missouri, issued the following news release on April 10, 2024: Today, Governor Mike Parson announced that the Missouri Department of Public Safety has approved 70 grants totaling $5 million to law enforcement, fire service, and EMS providers in class three counties across the state for new equipment to allow first responders to better respond to emergencies and provide additional protection as they do their jobs. Grant funded equipm  more

MARYVILLE, Missouri, April 11 -- Northwest Missouri State University issued the following news release: Belen Vanegas, a student employee in Northwest Missouri State University's Office of Title IX and Equity, was selected as the Midwest Association of Student Employment Administrators' (MASEA) Diversity and Inclusion Student Employee of the Year runner-up. Vanegas, a senior business management and financial management major from Ecuador, is employed in Northwest's proctoring center. The Univ  more

ST. LOUIS, Missouri, April 11 (TNSres) -- The Washington University St. Louis School of Medicine issued the following news release: * * * Using AI to help doctors read mammograms reduces follow-up testing without missing cancer cases, simulation shows * * * Using artificial intelligence (AI) to supplement radiologists' evaluations of mammograms may improve breast-cancer screening by reducing false positives without missing cases of cancer, according to a study by researchers at Washington Un  more

COLUMBIA, Missouri, April 11 -- The University of Missouri issued the following news release: In 2021, the University of Missouri launched MizzouForward, the boldest investment in the university's 185-year history. The goals of the 10-year, $1.5 billion initiative include: * Enriching students' educational experiences * Hiring 150 new faculty to Mizzou * Boosting research productivity * Strengthening the state's economy * Upgrading infrastructure on Mizzou's campus One of the earliest inv  more