Student Impact

Creating value for students Rachel Kohman explains Kummer Student Programs by describing the impact it has on student success. “We connect the dots across campus, bridge the work from different departments and translate it into a value-add for S&T students,” says Kohman. “Rather than just making new things, we lean into the incredible work already…

Conleigh Hardin, a senior in civil engineering from Austin, Texas, attended a large high school but was in a program with fewer than 200 students. She liked the scaled down, personal feeling of it, and when it was time to decide on a college, she chose Missouri S&T for its size relative to the huge…

When Gracie Boyer was a child, one of the many questions she asked her father, a diesel mechanic, was how their refrigerator worked. After he explained, she had several follow-up questions, including: How would it function if the external temperature was dramatically higher due to the world being on fire? Could an appliance maintain a…

I&E Fellow seizes opportunity to contribute knowledge to the scientific community After completing his Ph.D. in industrial chemistry in Nigeria, his home country, Ugochukwu Ewuzie worked as a laboratory scientist for a global energy company. Spending his days working on synthetic fuels and waste created by various refining processes, Ewuzie began to wonder not just…