Nanotechnology analysis carried out at Missouri S&T. Picture by Tom Wagner/Missouri S&T
Rolla, MO, Jan. 26, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Powered by a $300 million present to strengthen entrepreneurship and innovation within the STEM fields, Missouri College of Science and Know-how has established a brand new Ph.D. fellowship program for innovation-minded college students interested by pursuing a doctoral diploma in science, expertise, engineering or arithmetic.
The brand new Kummer Innovation and Entrepreneurship (I&E) Doctoral Fellows Program offers 12-month stipends and tuition remission for as much as 4 years to certified college students pursuing a Ph.D. at Missouri S&T. This system is open to full-time home and worldwide college students admitted to a STEM diploma program at Missouri S&T. The fellowship is restricted to 100 college students yearly, and college students might now apply for the autumn 2021 semester.
The Kummer I&E Doctoral Fellows Program is supported by way of a recent $300 million gift to Missouri S&T from June and Fred Kummer, profitable enterprise leaders from St. Louis. Fred Kummer is a 1955 civil engineering graduate of Missouri S&T and a profitable entrepreneur who based HBE Corp., a number one design-build firm that specialised in establishing medical facilities and different well being care services.
“June and Fred’s imaginative and prescient is to equip right now’s college students to develop into the innovators, inventors, entrepreneurs and leaders of the longer term,” says Dr. Mo Dehghani, chancellor of Missouri S&T. “We’re grateful to the Kummers for creating this fellowship for certified and deserving college students who wish to pursue a doctoral schooling at S&T, one of many nation’s main technological analysis universities.”
The Kummer program differs from many Ph.D. fellowships as a result of it’s designed to immerse college students within the ideas of innovation and entrepreneurship with the purpose of conducting analysis that may profit society in sensible, utilized methods, Dehghani says.
“Our need, and June and Fred Kummer’s need, is to assist instill an entrepreneurial mindset in our greatest and brightest doctoral college students,” he says.
College students interested by changing into a Kummer I&E Doctoral Fellow for the inaugural fall 2021 class ought to apply by Feb. 19. A range committee will evaluation all certified candidates, and college students chosen for this system can be notified by April 12.
For extra details about this system, go to KummerInstitute.mst.edu/FellowsProgram.
About Missouri College of Science and Know-how
Based in 1870 because the College of Missouri Faculty of Mines and Metallurgy, Missouri College of Science and Know-how (Missouri S&T) is a STEM-focused analysis college of over 7,600 college students and a part of the four-campus College of Missouri System. Positioned in Rolla, Missouri, Missouri S&T provides 99 totally different diploma applications in 40 areas of research, together with engineering, the sciences, enterprise and data expertise, schooling, the humanities, and the liberal arts. Missouri S&T is thought globally and is very ranked for offering a powerful return on tuition funding, distinctive profession alternatives for graduates, and an emphasis on utilized, hands-on studying by way of scholar design groups and cooperative schooling and internship alternatives. Missouri S&T is the highest public engineering college of 2021 as ranked by School Factual. For extra details about Missouri S&T, go to www.mst.edu.
In regards to the Kummer Institute
Established by way of a $300 million present to Missouri College of Science and Know-how, the Kummer Institute for Pupil Success, Analysis and Financial Growth was established in October 2020 to rework Missouri S&T and the south-central Missouri area by cultivating management and technological innovation; nurturing an entrepreneurial mindset; fostering enlargement of academic-industry partnerships to instantly tackle rising wants of {industry}; and creating financial development for the area. The Kummer Institute fulfills the imaginative and prescient of June and Fred Kummer, longtime benefactors of Missouri S&T. Study extra at KummerInstitute.mst.edu.
Andrew Careaga Missouri College of Science and Know-how 573-341-4328 information@mst.edu
