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Solutions to big challenges worth exploring happen beyond the surface.
Our faculty and graduate researchers dive into the unknown to make life-changing discoveries and in the process become experts in fields that might not even exist yet, on Earth and beyond.
There’s a lot about 2020 that many of us would rather forget. Despite the challenges resulting from the coronavirus pandemic, Missouri S&T researchers advanced the frontiers of technical, scientific and scholarly discovery in many ways in 2020. Here are 20 examples.
Research highlights
$48.6MFunds awarded |
1,548Graduate students |
359Awards received |
48,480+Scholars' Mine publications |
Five year highlights
Proposal dollars requested
Total expenditures from sponsored research activities
2020 Fiscal Year Summary of sponsored programs
| Funds awarded |
$48.6M |
| Proposal dollars requested |
$229.5M |
| Awards received |
359 |
| Total expenditures from sponsored research activities |
$35.2M |
| Total expenditures from external sources |
$43.5M |
| Invention disclosures |
39 |
| Patent applications filed |
31 |
| Patents issued |
25 |
| Royalty income |
$650k |
Tens of thousands of people are on the kidney transplant waiting list. Less than a third of them will receive a kidney this year, and thousands of kidneys are discarded because matches are not made while the donor kidney is viable.
Steelmaking is among the most energy- and carbon-dioxide-intensive process in manufacturing. U.S. steel producers are challenged by narrow profit margins due to the cost of raw materials and associated energy costs. But researchers at Missouri S&T could soon help the steel industry overcome those challenges.
Missouri S&T has received a $1.5 million award from the National Science Foundation to develop a new, state-of-the-art, rotational microwave Missouri S&T has received a $1.5 million award from the National Science Foundation to develop a new, state-of-the-art, rotational microwave spectrometer.
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Published by the Office of the Vice Chancellor of Research and Graduate Studies, re:search highlights some of the groundbreaking discoveries and advances of Missouri S&T’s research programs through detailed features and narratives.
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