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Three scouts crowd around a yellow box.

Ninth edition of Merit Badge Day largest ever

MU’s ninth-annual Merit Badge Day broke records as the largest in its history. Hosted by the College of Engineering, almost 800 scouts from six states came ready to learn and take on challenges.

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Building bridges in Botswana

Benjamin Steger and his fellow cadets in the U.S. Army ROTC Cadet Coalition Warfighter Program had been allowed passage into a federally protected tribal territory in Botswana to spend the night under the stars. That night, the tribe, with over 200 children eager to play with the cadets, decided to keep Steger and his companions engaged. Together, they played Frisbee, soccer, sang and showed each other dances, from traditional tribal dances to The Floss — a popular dance move in the U.S.

A young man in a Mizzou shirt stands in a courtyard.

MU’s Harmon seeks to pay research experience forward through new org

The ability to do engineering-related research in high school helped start Josh Harmon down the path toward becoming an engineer. Now a freshman at Mizzou Engineering, he’s working to pay it forward through a new student organization.

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Engineering, Business partner on Supply Chain Management graduate certificate

Mizzou Engineering’s Industrial & Manufacturing Systems Engineering Department and Trulaske College of Business’ Department of Marketing recently teamed up on an undergraduate Global Supply Chain Management certificate. Now, they’re expanding it to the graduate level.

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College celebrates latest Dean’s, MEP fellowship recipients

The College of Engineering celebrated its newest recipients of the Dean’s Engineering Excellence Fellowship and the Multicultural Engineering Program Graduate Fellowship with a luncheon recently.

Janae Bradley holding the Dr. Donald M. Suggs Dissertation Support Fellowship plaque.

Mizzou Engineering’s Bradley earns esteemed graduate fellowship

Fifth-year Biomedical, Biological & Chemical Engineering doctoral candidate Janae Bradley recently earned the 2019 Dr. Donald M. Suggs Dissertation Support Fellowship.

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Career Fair 2019: Repetition pays off for Scanlan

There’s a reason why Scanlan has attended eight career fairs: The exposure is invaluable. Employers "are seeing hundreds, if not thousands, of applications. You can’t let them stumble upon you. You really have to be like, ‘No, I’m the one you’re hiring,’” he said.

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Career Fair: Employers reach more than 1,000 Mizzou Engineers

More than 200 companies spoke at length with more than 1,000 students at the 2019 Mizzou Engineering Career Fair on Tuesday. Some were new to this particular event, some longtime participants — and all received a deluge of students eager to show off their skills and resumes in search of a job, co-op or internship.

Students cluster around the Mizzou Engineering Study Abroad booth at the study abroad fair.

Mizzou Engineering goes global for International Week

The College of Engineering welcomed international students with open arms and encouraged others to take their college experiences global as a part of last week’s International Week.

Students pose for a photo on the shore of a lake.

Camp COE helps Mizzou Engineers build sense of community

The concept of Camp COE — the first-ever Mizzou Engineering camp for freshmen, international and first-year graduate and transfer students — was to build a community students could grow with throughout their careers at MU. Year one was a rousing success.