Such an honor to get to travel with these young people and watch them shine. The future is in good hands! #MissouriSandT #sandtcase #sandtcec #SandTKummerCollege

Excited to be back in Taiwan for the Global Summit of Innovation and Engineering in Medicine. Proud of the 3 student teams participating. #MissouriSandT #SandTBioSci

First full day in Taipei for the Missouri S&T Global Health Innovation Challenge teams. Great visit to H2U company to learn about their business and to practice the pitches. Great conversations and valuable insight. Big Thank You to H2U for their generous hospitality.

S&T students advance to Global Health Innovation Grand Challenge semi-finals Three teams of Missouri University of Science and Technology students and alumni have advanced to the semi-finals of the Global Health Innovation Grand Challenge hosted by the Carle Illinois College o...

An interdisciplinary team of biology, engineering,, and computer science majors are heading to Taiwan to participate in the Global Health Innovation Challenge competition. Follow along to keep up-to-date on their progress.

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Proud of the students from the lab who were able to present their research at the #SolvingForTomorrow research symposium. #MissouriS&TBiology #MissouriS&T #MissouriS&TCASE

Tulip time! Our hardworking landscaping crews keeping campus beautiful. Get out of your office and enjoy the scenery. #MissouriS&T

Nice turnout to greet our National Champion and record setting track and field team All-Americans! #MinerSports #MissouriS&T #MinerPride!

Beautiful day for a parade!

Lots of great #bioluminescent #AgarArt from the #BestEverAgarArt event on Tuesday. Stay tuned for photos of the chromoprotein art.

Always fun when students take me up on my offer to bring friends to class for my annual St. Pat's lecture. Hopefully fun was had by all and we all learned a little something about shamrocks ☘️ and beer 🍺 #MissouriSandT #sandtcase

To say this is disruptive to student learning is an understatement. My response is to add a fun to the learning and encourage students to bring friends to class. I get a good turnout. Started doing this on the day before recess after being here a few years. I have done it ever since ~ 20 yrs. 2/2

A little back story. We are an engineering university (80%) and 118 years ago declared St. Patrick the patron saint of engineers. Every year we get a spring recess (Thurs and Fri off) and a spring break a week later! The week of recess is full of activities and every year is the Best Ever. 1/2

Nice turnout for the #BestEverAgarArt event. Here are a couple photos of some of the participants and all the awesome #BioluminescentArt they created. The #ChromoproteinArt will be ready next week. #MissouriS&T #MissouriS&TBiology #MissouriS&TCollegeofArts,SciencesandEducation

Hey Rolla. It's time for the #BestEverAgarArt event. Stop by 126 Schrenk Hall today any time between 5:15 pm and 7 pm to create your own living art.

Check out my website for examples of the kind of artwork YOU can make: sites.mst.edu/djwesten/aga...

Hey Missouri S&T friends and colleagues. Are you curious about the science behind some of our Saint Pat's traditions? You are welcome to stop by my microbiology class tomorrow (March 11) at 9 am in 104 Engineering Management as we talk about the #MicrobiologyOfStPatsTraditions. All are welcome.

Unfortunately no darker green that I've found.

Time for the #BestEverAgarArt event. Stop by Schrenk Hall 128 on Tuesday, March 10, between 5 pm and 7 pm to create a living masterpiece.

What is #AgarArt? Painting with colorful, pigmented bacteria or with bioluminescent bacteria or both!

Check out earlier events

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It's March! Time to get your GREEN on! #MissouriSandT #GIANTmicrobes #BestEverStPats

Big win for #Miners_WBB as they sweep Drury! #MinerSports.

Busy week of #Outreach activities at #MissouriS&T . Two sessions of #InfectionConnection with middle school students for #EngineeringDay on Thursday and #SyntheticBiology activities with nearly 60 #PreCollegeInitiative students on Friday. Good fun with great discussions.

It's #ScienceOlympiad time at Missouri S&T Good luck to all the teams and, most important, have fun!

Took advantage of a lovely day to take the microbiology students outside to do cellular respiration. Didn't take photos today but here is a photo from a previous year and a video of them in action. (Thankful students put up with me :-)

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Bonus video youtu.be/J0OilT7Mq48

The calm before the storm. It's #CareerFair day at Missouri S&T. #HireMiners!

Lovely day at @mobotgarden.bsky.social checking out the #Orchid exhibit and strolling the grounds.

Happy Valentine's Day. Say it with Microbes! :-) 🦠😆

Photoshop :-). Seriously, I move them to room temp after 24 hours and wait a week for some of the colors to fully mature before I take photos. I have a set up with a ring light and black lights and use my phone. I do a little touching up with Photoshop if I have time.

All strains of E. coli initially developed by an iGEM team. Each with a different chromoprotein plasmid. I bought mine from Addgene. A bit pricey but worth it. I've gotten a lot of use out of them over the past few years. sites.mst.edu/djwesten/aga... Working on a public event in a couple months.

Fun GIFs with some of the #AgarArt with fluorescent features. #MissouriS&T #MissouriS&TBiology

Beautiful #AgarArt by #BioSci3319 Microbiology students #MissouriS&T #MissouriS&TBiology

A fun week of #AgarArt activities at Missouri S&T almost 50 masterpieces from Microbiology lab students and PLTW teachers. Visit my website to check out more of their great work!
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