
Mizzou Engineer honored as ASME Rising Star
Hessam Yazdani, an associate professor of civil and environmental engineering at the University of Missouri, has been recognized by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) with a certificate acknowledging his distinguished achievements in engineering mechanics.

Giraldo-Londoño awarded Haythornthwaite Research Initiation Grant
Oliver Giraldo-Londoño received one of five Haythornthwaite Research Initiation Grants from the (ASME) Applied Mechanics Division.

Sensing animal intuition
Mizzou Engineer Jian Lin and doctoral student Morgan Miller are developing the next generation of sensors to improve horse welfare.

Mizzou Engineer receives AIChE Community Distinguished Service Award
Mizzou Engineering faculty member Reginald Rogers Jr. has been awarded the American Institute of Chemical Engineers Minority Affairs Community's Distinguished Service Award.

Mizzou Engineering faculty honored as Curators’ Distinguished Professors
Two Mizzou Engineering faculty members, Prasad Calyam and Baolin Deng, have been named Curators' Distinguished Professors.

Preparing neurodivergent learners for cybersecurity careers
Mizzou researchers are building a virtual reality platform to train individuals with autism and other neurodevelopment differences to work in cybersecurity.

Mizzou Engineering professor receives DARPA Young Faculty Award for autonomous systems research
Assistant Professor Mushuang Liu received Mizzou’s first Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Young Faculty Award (YFA) for her research into multi-agent reinforcement learning.

Hatching high-growth ventures
Faculty at leading research, land-grant institutions like the University of Missouri juggle many roles. They teach and mentor students, write grants, conduct research, publish their work and engage the public.

Rao receives ICDE Outstanding Reviewer Award
Praveen Rao Mizzou Engineering’s Praveen Rao has received a 2024 Outstanding Reviewer Award from the 40th Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE).

Jianlin “Jack” Cheng named 2023 AAAS Fellow
Jianlin “Jack” Cheng, a Curators’ Distinguished Professor in the College of Engineering and a NextGen Precision Health initiative researcher, was named a 2023 AAAS Fellow.