Dear alumni, students, faculty and staff:

Happy New Year!  I'm energized and excited, and hope we will collaborate to make a positive impact for Kummer College in 2025.

I want to acknowledge a few 2024 success stories that are highlighted below. Congratulations to all of our December graduates, including Dr. Ademola Adesokan as our first graduated I&E Doctoral Fellow. Congratulations to Dr. Mahelet Fikru, Dr. Hanqing “Chevy” Fang, Dr. Nobuyuki Fukawa and Dr. Cecil Chua for recognition of their recent outstanding achievements. I admit that I was intrigued to learn the definition of "ubichronic time" that Dr. Chua explains in his recent work.  

My first semester at S&T was a whirlwind in getting to know the wonderful people and their unique roles, skills and perspectives. You have helped me to understand the infrastructure and many organizational units constituting our ecosystem. I've been very impressed with the myriad of connections with alumni and corporate and government partnerships. Our faculty are not only impressive scholars, but they are caring mentors and effective team members who help manage relationships with campus peers, employers of our graduates and their scholarly societies and associations. 

Thanks to all who have welcomed me aboard. I look forward to working to accentuate our strengths, and to lead the growth of new connections that are innovative, entrepreneurial and will help all S&T stakeholders contribute to economic development.   

In December, the Kummer College celebrated the graduation of undergraduate, master's degree and Ph.D. students, including our first Kummer Innovation and Entrepreneurship Doctoral Fellow graduate, Dr. Ademola Adesokan, and a group of our Kummer Vanguard Scholars. Congratulations to all the graduates! We can't wait to see what your future holds. 

"The Kummer I&E Doctoral Fellowship program is one of the best things that ever happened to me. I want to go into academia for a few years, then fully into entrepreneurship, which is where the program really helped me. A startup is the way! If you like your freedom to study what you love and if you want to make an impact, the Kummer I&E Fellowship program is the way to go."

—Dr. Ademola Adesokan, first I&E Fellow graduate

The master of business administration (MBA) program has been approved for STEM designation by the U.S. Department of Education. This will go into effect next fall. The designation will better align the program with the mission of the Kummer College to be technology focused while benefiting students.

From robotics to rockets, movies to history or biology to mining, Missouri S&T has a summer camp for any interest, and registration is open now. There are 29 camps for K-12 students to choose from this year, including six new camps.  

Congratulations to Dr. Mahelet Fikru, professor of economics, and Dr. Hanqing “Chevy” Fang, associate professor of business and information technology, for being listed as the most prolific contributors in their topics from 2019 to 2023 in Scopus, a multidisciplinary abstract and citation database.

Congratulations to Dr. Nobuyuki Fukawa, associate professor of marketing, for being awarded funding from the Academy of Marketing Science for a project, titled “Building a Customer-Centric Innovation Platform with the Digital Twin” project.

Congratulations to Dr. Cecil Chua, associate professor of business and information technology, for receiving the Operational Research Society’s Stafford Beer Medal for the best paper published in the European Journal of Information Systems (EJIS) during 2023. Chua’s paper is titled “Rethinking Time: Ubichronic Time and its Impact on Work."

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Kummer College of Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Economic Development

Missouri University of Science and Technology

Missouri S&T Rolla, MO 65409
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