Angela Lueking, professor of energy and mineral engineering and chemical engineering, joined Missouri University of Science and Technology (S&T) as associate dean of research in the College of Engineering and Computing on August 1, 2018. Lueking was a Penn State faculty member since 2003. She taught graduate and undergraduate courses in the both the Department of Chemical Engineering and the John and Willie Leone Family Department of Energy and Mineral Engineering. While at Penn State her research focused on improving absorption, catalysis, and environmental separations of hydrogen and carbon. In 2012 she was selected for a Marie Curie International Incoming Fellowship allowing her to broaden her research as a visiting scholar at the University of Crete in Greece. Immediately prior to joining S&T, she served a two-year appointment as a program director for the National Science Foundation.