elevate S&T
The research and programs funded by the Kummer gift is strengthening the connections between academic expertise and real-world know-how in support of discoveries critical to our region’s ability to thrive.
Below are a few stories highlighting how the gift is elevating Missouri S&T from FY24.
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Sustainability in pursuit of the big‑picture vantage point
Read more: Sustainability in pursuit of the big‑picture vantage pointOne way the Kummer Institute Center for Resource Sustainability is having an impact is fairly obvious. Over the last year, led by the center director Shelley Minteer, who joined S&T last fall, it’s brought in three industry contracts and three federal grants totaling more than $1 million in funding for research on a range of…
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Empowering Missouri manufacturers to compete across the globe
Read more: Empowering Missouri manufacturers to compete across the globeThe Kummer Institute Center for Advanced Manufacturing, working with two other schools in the state, is embarking on a mission to help Missouri manufacturers become and stay globally competitive by educating their future employees — engineering and technical students — in advanced manufacturing technology and modern production equipment. The project, Bridging the Manufacturing Critical Skills…
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Planting seeds for societal impact
Read more: Planting seeds for societal impactMeeting a big challenge with a big solution, such as impending climate disaster, by accelerating research, development and deployment of breakthrough and highly scalable carbon-negative technologies across massive industrial sectors. Or mitigating the risk of fire often associated with the batteries that power electric vehicles. These are just a couple of the innovations that could…
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An academic entrepreneur
Read more: An academic entrepreneurJames D. Sterling brings a fairly traditional portfolio of academic credentials to his role as vice provost and founding dean of the Kummer College. But he’s also an entrepreneur, and he sees no reason the two should be mutually exclusive. “I’m an academic entrepreneur,” says Sterling, who began his role June 1. The Kummer College…
