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MISSOURI S&T MAGAZINE MISSOURI S&T MAGAZINE FALL/WINTER 2019 VOL. 93 NO. 3 LEADING INTO THE FUTURE LEADING INTO LEADING INTO FALL/WINTER 2019 VOL. 93 NO. 3 2019 VOL. FALL/WINTER THE FUTURE MOHAMMAD DEHGHANI: S&T’S NINTH CHANCELLOR FC_FW 2019.indd 1 11/14/19 10:04 AM We know MINERS DIG DEEPER. Our mascot personifies that spirit. Always ready for work and never without the tools of his trade, Joe Miner represents the rugged individualism and frontier spirit that have guided Miners for nearly 150 years. This holiday season, Joe and the Miner Alumni Association join Miners everywhere in celebrating that spirit by thanking you for sharing it. mineralumni.com/give FALL/WINTER 19_Section1_ml.indd 1 11/14/19 9:53 AM AROUND THE PUCK Underground engineer We know 5 Nancy Matteoni is digging her way under St. Louis in her latest Parsons project. What happens in Vegas ... may 6 appear in print Larry Gragg examines the rise of tourism in Sin City in this book on Vegas culture. Eco-investigator 9 Robin Verble leads the Ozark Research Field Station. The beginning of life as 10 we know it Oxygen bound in minerals in a planet’s MINERS interior may have triggered new life. UM System funds four new 12 research centers They focus on materials, infrastructure and electrical power systems. MinerFest 2019 14 A few scenes from Homecoming. A summer at Stingray Bay 20 and beyond DIG DEEPER. Biology senior Vanessa Mahan has a passion for endangered animals. FEATURES Leading into the future 22 Meet Mohammad Dehghani, S&T’s ninth chancellor. BEYOND THE PUCK Alumni association to expand 36 event space Hasselmann property to expand. Class notes 37 Learn what your former classmates are up to. Missouri governor honors Akers 38 Former astronaut Tom Akers received the Missouri National Guard Meritorious Service Medal Ribbon. Memorials 43 We remember our classmates and friends. Investing in the intersection of CORRECTION 48 technology, arts and sciences Mike, ME’67, and Linda Evans. On page 21 of the Summer 2019 issue, Paul Lang’s degree information was listed incorrectly. It should be Paul Lang, MinE’83. We regret the error. MISSOURI S&T MAGAZINE 1 FALL/WINTER 19_Section1_ml.indd 1 11/14/19 9:57 AM $93 Cost of a chemistry text using AutoAccess, an S&T Store program that allows students to use digital course material through Canvas, S&T’s digital learning management system. MAGAZINE The chemistry book used to cost $330 and weigh almost 10 pounds. Missouri S&T Magazine is written, edited and designed by the staff of the Missouri S&T Marketing and Communications Department and the Miner Alumni Association. Missouri S&T’s rank among Missouri colleges for alumni salary CHANCELLOR ASSOCIATE ALUMNI $ Mohammad Dehghani EDITOR potential,1 according to 698,223 Logan Campbell Payscale.com. S&T is Record royalty income from patents on VICE CHANCELLOR FOR UNIVERSITY DESIGN AND ranked No. 48 nationally commercialized inventions and products ADVANCEMENT PRODUCTION for best universities for S&T earned in fiscal year 2019 — a 32% Joan Nesbitt Jake Otto Lindsay Stanford a bachelor’s degree. increase over the previous year’s income. MINER ALUMNI ASSOCIATION Lishia Stevens PRESIDENT STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER Stephen W. Rector, Tom Wagner PetE’72, MS PetE’73 CONTRIBUTORS EDITORS Terry Barner MISSOURI S&T BY THE NUMBERS Nancy Hatch (Alumni) Nancy Bowles Mary Helen Stoltz, Engl’95 Delia Croessmann (News & Features) Mindy Limback ASSOCIATE NEWS Sam O’Keefe EDITORS John Rodenberg Maridel Allinder Rudi Starek Andrew Careaga Peter Ehrhard, MS TComm’18 3.95 Sarah Potter Invitations S&T has Average GPA of this Missouri S&T Magazine (ISSN 1084-6948) is issued three received from the fall’s first-year students times per year (April, August, December) in the interest of the U.S. Department of graduates and former students of the Missouri School of Mines at Missouri S&T. With and Metallurgy, the University of Missouri-Rolla and Missouri Energy to compete in an average ACT score University of Science and Technology. Missouri S&T Magazine is published by the Miner Alumni Association, Missouri S&T, 1100 N. the Solar Decathlon — of 28.8, this group Pine St., Rolla, MO 65409-0650. more than any other is among the top Missouri S&T Magazine is printed by LSC Communications, university in the world. 10% in the nation. Liberty, Mo. Covers are printed on 114 lb. — 7 pt. Sterling White; interior pages are printed on 60 lb. Sterling White. Missouri S&T Magazine is printed using soy-based ink. U.S. Department of Transportation Send letters to: News & features: Darlene Ramsay Phone: 573-341-4328 grant to allow chemistry researcher Miner Alumni Association Fax: 573-341-6157 Phil Whitefield to characterize 1100 N. Pine St. Email: [email protected] aircraft emissions using conventional Rolla, MO 65409-0650 magazine.mst.edu Phone: 800-JO-MINER and sustainable alternative jet fuels Fax: 573-341-4706 in jet engines at cruising altitude. Email: [email protected] 2 AROUND THE PUCK FALL/WINTER 2019 FALL/WINTER 19_Section1_ml.indd 2 11/14/19 9:57 AM “I was a charter member of TO THE EDITOR the Campus Club, and was As usual, I enjoyed reading the Spring magazine, particularly the article on Dr. elected to a one-semester Stephen Roberts’ CASB programs designed to “prepare students for sustainable careers in a rapidly changing world.” term as secretary-treasurer. That article emphasized the importance of I learned to be a politician and to campaign. I “soft skills” like critical thinking, effectively endeavored to meet and befriend every member communicating, enthusiasm, commitment, Q&A of the club, thus establishing a voter base to elect problem solving and motivation. All of these me to office. I also worked 20 hours per week are being taught, and taught well, in our at the campus police headquarters manning outstanding Greek community. Did you have a the dispatch microphone, logging events and With the recent spate of hand-wringing duties, and contacting officers. I also answered over enrollment drop, it would seem that the phone and serviced walk-in traffic. I learned we should recognize the soft skill set as campus job? respect and appreciation for campus security no longer ancillary but an important and how to be an intermediary between the component of the educational experience at public and the university.” S&T. If you buy that premise, then the bit of As part of his research for including the outstanding Greek experiences the S&T 150th anniversary Russell J. Warchola, GGph’67 available at S&T as part of the promotional Billings, Mont. efforts of the university should follow. Yet, history book, Larry Gragg, in that same publication (other than in the Curators’ Distinguished obits) there was but one mention of the fraternity experience, and that was not from Teaching Professor “I bartended for Chancellor the editorial staff. There are opportunities here and, if you emeritus of history and Merl Baker when he had agree, then we can do better together. political science, asked if dinner parties and held Michael Kearney, EE’60 you had a job on campus, receptions in his home. Kirkwood, Mo. where you worked and Met many successful people (some graduates of what you learned from MSM) and observed how successful folks interact the experience. Here are a in this type of social situation. The money was I wanted to thank the department behind good and the education priceless.” Missouri S&T Magazine for the inspirational few of your answers: work communicated in the recent Battle Rich Freeman, CE’70, MS EMgt’75 for the Brain articles. Leland, N.C. Thanks to my Rolla learning, I spent 20 years as a successful chemical engineer earning patents for designing new bottles “I worked over two for Gatorade and testing new packaging “I was the second at Mallinckrodt, but brain trauma, sadly, years in the Cloud suddenly became part of my life in 2018. station manager During a vacation, I fell 30 feet down from Physics Research Lab. a hiking trail at Shenandoah National Park of MSM’s first radio on May 24 and suffered horrible brain, skull It was a fabulous job! station, KMSM-FM 89.7 and bone injuries, so I am still unable to resume working due to many medical issues. I learned so many things, from using (now KMNR). I still can read the magazine, however, machine tools to laying out circuit boards, and though I have never doubted great silk-screening and etching them, and then I worked on the staff of the radio station work is done at Rolla, until reading the populating the boards with parts to support 1963–67. Though I had inclinations in broadcast newest magazine, I had never once realized the research projects.