Month: September 2003
Researchers, students help clean up Nebraska site
A UMR researcher and several students are helping find new ways to clean up contaminated groundwater at a former munitions site near Mead, Neb., by recycling the water through a special type of well.
Read More »UMR researchers make stronger, more efficient metal by making it flow like chewing gum
Researchers at the University of Missouri-Rolla are patenting a process that makes metal stronger, more efficient and more cost effective — by making it flow like chewing gum. The result could be manufacturing improvements for the aircraft industry.
Read More »UMR’s Greg Gelles to serve as dean of college in Oman
Dr. Greg Gelles, chair and professor of economics and finance at the University of Missouri-Rolla, has been named dean of Mazoon College in Muscat, Oman. Gelles will take over for Dr. Juma S. Al Ghailani, the school’s founding dean, for a two-year term.
Read More »Flachsbart named chair of UMR information science & technology
Dr. Barry Flachsbart, a former adjunct professor at the University of Missouri-Rolla’s Engineering Education Center (EEC) in St. Louis, has been named professor and chair of the information science and technology department in UMR’s School of Management and Information Systems. The appointment took effect Sept. 1.
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