For members of the Missouri S&T Order of the Golden Shillelagh
November 2022
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Rolla Mayor Lou Magdits (left), OGS member Bill Kennedy (second from right) and Chancellor Mo Dehghani (right) joined the celebration honoring Tim and Kay Bradley.
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Arrival District Celebration highlights Tim Bradley Way, OGS donors
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Thanks to the philanthropy of OGS members Tim Bradley, Pet’77, and his wife, Kay, visitors to Missouri S&T who exit from I-44 will now access the campus via a new thoroughfare, Tim Bradley Way. The road will ultimately take them to a welcoming grand entrance in our new Arrival District, the largest project in the university’s history. To celebrate this historic milestone, Missouri S&T honored the Bradleys with a campus celebration parade on Friday, Oct. 21, during Homecoming Weekend. OGS member Bill Kennedy, an honorary life member of the Miner Alumni Association, drove the Bradleys and Rolla Mayor Lou Magdits in his classic Rolls-Royce, accompanied by the Miner Marching Band and S&T student design teams, culminating in a blast of confetti.
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Following the parade, Chancellor Mo Dehghani and other distinguished speakers expressed their gratitude to all the Arrival District donors in a recognition ceremony on the Havener Center lawn. Tim Bradley’s heartfelt reflections on the surety of the decision he and his wife made to support the project surely left a memorable impression on the crowd of dignitaries, alumni, project managers and university leaders, faculty and staff. We were delighted that OGS donors Mike Bytnar, ME’68, MS EMgt’73, and Tom Voss, EE’69 and his wife, Carol, were able to attend. Joyce Bytnar; Preston Carney, CE’02, MS CE’03, and his wife, Mandy; Gary Havener, Math’62; Jeff Sheets, ChE’80, and his wife, Pat, ChE’80; and Steve Suellentrop, PetE’74, MS PetE’75, and his wife, Betty, were also thanked for bringing the Arrival District to life through their investments in the project.
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OGS members honored as Homecoming Legends
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Each Homecoming, the Miner Alumni Association recognizes a select group of alumni for outstanding achievements and service to their community, their professions and the world.
The 2022 awardees included three OGS members who were honored at the annual Homecoming Legends Luncheon, themed “Miner Masters” based on the international LEGO Masters reality television show. Congratulations to all!
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Carey Bottom, Chem’72, MS Chem’75, PhD Chem’79, received the Alumni Achievement Award.
Karen Squires Foelsch, CSci’89, received the Frank H. Mackaman Alumni Volunteer Service Award.
Linda Wright, ChE’88, received the Alumni Merit Award.
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OGS members Christine and Ashok Midha. Ashok is a professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at S&T.
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Family’s STEM legacy inspires engineering scholarship fund
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OGS members Ashok Midha, professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at Missouri S&T, and his wife, Christine, have established a scholarship with his sister, Asha Marwaha, and her husband, Raj Marwaha.
The mechanical and aerospace engineering scholarship honors Ashok and Asha’s parents, Soshil Chander and Kaushalya Devi Midha, who raised six children in India. Their five sons and one daughter all earned advanced STEM degrees in India, Germany and the U.S.
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Dr. Asha Marwaha and her husband, Dr. Raj Marwaha, joined with the Midhas to establish a scholarship honoring Ashok and Asha’s parents.
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“My father earned a degree in mechanical engineering while facing many adversities,” says Ashok, “and he always expected his children to earn degrees higher than his own.”
Beyond funding the S&T education of future engineers, Ashok and Christine also kept his parents’ passion for higher education alive on the home front. Their three sons, Raj, Sanjeev and Prem, ME’07, all earned undergraduate degrees in mechanical engineering, as well as advanced degrees in engineering and business.
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With $1 million base, Kummer Inspiration Program doubles scholarship donations
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Based on a $1,050,000 investment from the Kummer Institute Foundation, the Kummer Inspiration Program was established to match donations of at least $25,000, giving donors the chance to double the impact of their gift. Half of the fund will be used to support S&T students at a critical time in their academic journey — between their first and second year, the time they are most likely to leave college. The remainder will be used to match donations for ranked and endowed faculty positions.
The scholarship portion of the fund has met its $1 million goal. We are deeply grateful to Ken Jinkerson, ChE’75, MS ChE’77, and his wife, Beverly, who are the first OGS members to establish a scholarship through this program.
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Mark your calendar and plan to join OGS at The Chase Park Plaza Royal Sonesta in St. Louis' Central West End district.
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We’ll share details soon for what promises to be a weekend filled with Shillelagh spirit! For questions, please contact Sarah Jones at jonessarah@mst.edu or 573-341-6359.
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New “Solving for Tomorrow” theme highlights S&T’s future-focused offerings
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In September, our university’s marketing and communications department rolled out a refreshed version of the Missouri S&T brand. The “Solving for Tomorrow” theme highlights S&T’s uncommon mix of creative and disciplined educational programs that prepare students to discover solutions for an increasingly complex world.
You’ll notice the theme on S&T’s upgraded website, billboards and marketing materials. The future-focused theme also supports S&T’s goals to attain a Top 100 university ranking from U.S. News & World Report and an R1 Carnegie Classification for very high research activity, as well as to increase enrollment.
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Students Garrett McEntire, Brady Davis, Maxwell Ryan and Natasha Cox attended the conference.
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Mars Rover Design Team members author first-place paper
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S&T electrical and computer engineering students Maxwell Ryan, Anthony Robles, Grant Brinker, Daelon Shockley and Natasha Cox, all members of the Mars Rover Design Team, co-authored a case study that received the First Place Undergraduate Student Paper Award at the recent International Telemetering Conference in Scottsdale, Ariz.
Their paper, “Science System for a Prototype Mars Rover,” describes how S&T’s Prometheus rover, which finished third in the world at the 2022 University Rover Challenge, performed scientific tests in an environment analogous to Mars by electronically gathering and analyzing data from soil samples, chemical sensor arrays and geologic formations.
“All these experiential learning experiences at S&T have given us a direct hand to change the world,” says Max Ryan, the team’s student CEO.
Thanks to the sponsorship of electrical and computer engineering, four members of the Mars Rover Design Team attended the conference accompanied by faculty advisor and associate professor Kurt Kosbar.
If you would like to become involved with the team, email MarsRover@mst.edu.
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S&T team competes against professionals in mine rescue competition
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The Missouri Mine Rescue Association joined S&T to host its 40th Annual Mine Rescue Competition on campus in late September. Faced with a variety of challenges from different aspects of mine rescue, students responded to simulated underground emergencies, performed equipment checks, and demonstrated their first aid skills.
S&T’s team, the only student team in the contest, placed third in the BG-4 Benchman test, in which they checked a breathing apparatus for potentially dangerous faults. All other teams were made up of mining industry professionals.
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