Miner Master Mentors

The Miner Master Mentors (M3) program provides confidential mentoring by a cadre of accomplished and respected Missouri S&T faculty.  Established to enhance a culture of mentorship on campus, Master Mentors are available as a resource to all tenure-track, tenured, non-tenure track, and contingent faculty beyond their S&T departmental resources. The Master Mentors have a collective breadth of expertise to provide meaningful and accurate advice and information regarding all aspects of faculty professional development, such as:

  • Research
  • Teaching
  • Service & Leadership
  • Promotion and Tenure 
  • Non-Tenure Track Faculty Affairs
  • Service Learning
  • Early Career Challenges

This program is completely voluntary and confidential for mentees, who initiate and seek out mentors based on their needs. Contact the Master Mentors listed below to start a conversation. Miner Master Mentors are happy to meet with you face-to-face or via Zoom, whichever you prefer.
Dr. Bill Fahrenholtz

Curators' Distinguished Professor of Ceramic Engineering

(573) 341-6343 | billf@mst.edu |

130 Straumanis-James Hall

Specializations
  • research and scholarship
  • early-career faculty concerns
  • graduate student advising
Dr. Stephen Gao

Curators’ Distinguished Teaching Professor, Geology and Geophysics

(573) 341-6676 | sgao@mst.edu |

B-35 McNutt

Specializations
  • leadership
  • promotion and tenure
  • non-tenure-track faculty affairs
  • graduate student advising
  • teaching
  • other topics
Dr. Merilee Krueger

Teaching Professor of Psychology

(573) 341-7244 | krueger@mst.edu |

112 Humanities and Social Sciences

Specializations
  • teaching
  • service
  • promotion and tenure
  • non-tenure-track faculty affairs
Dr. Christi Patton Luks

Teaching Professor in the Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering

(573) 341-7641 | luksc@mst.edu |

210N Bertelsmeyer Hall

Specializations
  • teaching
  • service
  • ntt promotion
  • non-tenure-track affairs
Dr. Melanie Mormile

Professor of Biological Sciences and Professor of Geological Sciences and Engineering

(573) 341-6346 | mmormile@mst.edu |

M2 Schrenk

Specializations
  • research and scholarship
  • service
  • leadership
  • promotion and tenure.
Dr. Joan Schuman

Associate Teaching Professor, Engineering Management and Systems Engineering

(573) 341-6112 | schumanj@mst.edu |

207 Engineering Management

Specializations
  • teaching
  • service
  • non-tenure track faculty affairs
  • service learning
  • or scholarship of teaching