Demonstrating speed, precision, and adaptability in autonomous vehicle technology, a team of students from the Benjamin M. Statler College of Engineering and Mineral Resources placed third overall at the 28th RoboRacer Autonomous Racing Competition, held during the 2026 IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium in Detroit, Michigan.
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The College of Applied Human Sciences Master of Arts in Literacy Education program is being recognized as a Board of Governors Program of Excellence, a designation which reflects achievement of the highest academic standards.
The Carlson Senior Mine Design Competition pushes mining engineering students to take everything they’ve learned in the classroom and apply it to a full-scale, real-world mine planning project.
Ajay Aluri, an associate professor at the John Chambers College of Business and Economics and founding director of the Nemacolin Hospitality Innovation and Technology Lab, has been recognized as one of the 2026 IHI Global 100 Most Influential Educators in Hospitality and Tourism by the International Hospitality Institute.
Ember Morrissey, Edward Brzostek, and Aldo Romero are recipients of a U.S. Department of Energy Genesis Mission grant that will be used to develop an artificial intelligence platform that could transform scientists’ ability to predict and engineer microbial communities.
Earlier this year, graduate students from the Benjamin M. Statler College of Engineering and Mineral Resources spent a day at North Elementary School, helping fourth and fifth graders build and code their own Lego Milo robots.