Miner Stories

Harvest Collier speaks at commencement

Harvest Collier on student success

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Harvest Collier, a professor of chemistry, served several years in the early 21st century as vice provost…

Mun Choi speaking on stage

First impressions: UM System President Mun Choi

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Mun Choi, who has served as president of the University of Missouri System since 2017…

Jack Carney Speaking to the Board of Curators

Jack Carney on the 2008 name change

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John F. “Jack” Carney, who served as chancellor at S&T between 2005 and 2011, explains his reasons for…

Joe Miner with Jerry Bayless

Memories from “Mr. Miner,” Jerry Bayless

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After earning a bachelor’s degree in civil engineering in 1959, Jerry Bayless began teaching in the department…

Wharton makes KC Chiefs’ roster

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Former Missouri S&T defensive lineman Tershawn Wharton, who earned All-America honors while a Miner, made the 2020 opening day roster for the National Football League’s Kansas City Chiefs. Wharton, who signed with the Chiefs as an undrafted free agent shortly after the NFL Draft concluded in April 2020, was a part of the team’s 53-man…

Contributing to a Nobel Prize

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Dr. Clyde Cowan, ChemE’40, was posthumously recognized for his part in research that earned the 1995 Nobel Prize in physics. Cowan was a co-discoverer of the neutrino, along with prize winner Dr. Frederick Reines. In 1956, the two researchers discovered the nearly massless subatomic particles called neutrinos. But the role neutrinos served was still unconfirmed…

Abby (Pittroff) and Ryan Riess

Abby (Pittroff) and Ryan Riess

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Student athletes Abby (Pittroff) and Ryan Riess met in August 2002 outside the campus’s Rayle Cafeteria. “I thought to myself, ‘he’s so tall and handsome,’” she says. “I like to give him grief today that he blew me off that day and said, ‘I gotta go to my chem lab,’ but he doesn’t quite remember…

Madison (Moore) and Scottie Thomas

Madison (Moore) and Scottie Thomas

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Madison (Moore) and Scottie Thomas attended the same high school, and even took a French class together, but they didn’t become a couple until his freshman year at S&T. While students at S&T, both spent a lot of time in the Havener Center and served on the Student Council at Missouri S&T. In fact, both…

Jennifer (Hoffman) and Terrence Sison

Jennifer (Hoffman) and Terrence Sison

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Jennifer (Hoffman) and Terrence Sison attended the same high school but didn’t know each other until they met at S&T in 2006.  Active members of Engineers Without Borders, they both went to Bolivia in 2007 but worked on two separate project locations. Terrence worked up in the mountains, and Jennifer worked on a project in…

Will Annunziata and Rebecka Connor

Will Annunziata and Rebecka Connor

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Will Annunziata met Rebecka Connor in January 2016 while he was home on Christmas break from his first semester at S&T.  “Through mutual friends, we met up for our date out to Buffalo Wild Wings and to see a movie,” she says. “From there, I visited him on campus on weekends and met all of…