Feb. 24, 2025
Professor emeritus endows engineering scholarships
Professor Emeritus Vellore S. Gopalaratnam and his wife, Anantha, have established the Vellore and Anantha Gopalaratnam Civil Engineering Excellence Scholarship to support future generations of Mizzou Engineers.
Dec. 4, 2023
Community service proves life-changing for Mizzou Engineering STEM Scholars
Want to see engineering coursework come to life? Need a way to release stress and anxiety? Want to transform your life? Get involved in community service. That’s what a group of Mizzou Engineering students have learned as part of the STEM Scholars. The program, funded by the National Science Foundation, is a holistic scholarship that includes not only academic support but also one-on-one mentoring and volunteer opportunities. STEM Scholars have packaged food at The Food Bank, picked up trash along the Missouri River and, this fall, painted the interior of a house for Habitat for Humanity.
April 10, 2023
Fulbright enables Mizzou Engineer to analyze flood control in Netherlands
A Mizzou Engineer has received a prestigious Fulbright research fellowship. After completing her master’s in civil engineering this summer, Amber Spriggs will spend the upcoming academic year in the Netherlands conducting analysis on the country’s innovative flood management initiative.
Dec. 6, 2022
Gopalaratnam elected ASCE Fellow
Vellore Gopalaratnam, professor of civil and environmental engineering, has been elected a Fellow of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE).
Nov. 18, 2022
Logan Wittman: 2022 STEM Scholar
Funded by the National Science Foundation, Civil and Environmental (CEE) STEM Scholars are part of a national program to meet the need for well-trained civil engineers. Meet 2022 STEM Scholar inductee Logan Wittman.
Aug. 31, 2022
Mizzou Engineering welcomes STEM Scholars at meet and greet event
The 2022 and 2021 STEM Scholars. Mizzou Engineering has welcomed 12 aspiring civil engineers whose passion for the field helped earn them Scholarships in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM). At a Meet and Greet event Thursday, Aug. 25, the incoming class of STEM Scholars had the opportunity to hear from Dean Noah Manring, civil and environmental engineering department Chair Praveen Edara and Jim Spain, vice provost for undergraduate studies. Also on hand were partners from the Missouri Department of Transportation, HDR and Kiewit and the STEM Project Team. Funded by the National Science Foundation, the Mizzou Engineering…