Month: March 2007
Students prepare for 99th St. Pat’s celebration
This week on the campus of the University of Missouri-Rolla, students are busy chasing imaginary snakes with big sticks called shillelaghs. Next week, several traditional events will be held in anticipation of St. Patrick’s Day.
Read More »Honorary Knights of St. Patrick named
Eight individuals have been named Honorary Knights of St. Patrick for 2007 by the University of Missouri-Rolla committee that helps organize St. Pat’s events in Rolla.
Read More »University of Missouri Board of Curators schedules presidential search open forums
On Tuesday, March 20, the University of Missouri Board of Curators will travel to the University of Missouri-Rolla to hold a public forum to discuss the search for the UM System’s next president. The board is seeking a successor to President Elson S. Floyd, who is departing this spring to assume the presidency of Washington […]
Read More »UMR announces winners of Leila Thompson Flagg Art Contest
The University of Missouri-Rolla is pleased to announce the names of the elementary and middle school students who took top awards in its 2007 Leila Thompson Flagg Art Contest. Ninety entries, from nine schools throughout the state, were judged in the contest and were on display during February in the Havener Center lobby.
Read More »Jim Driscoll takes center stage
When civil engineering student Jim Driscoll began studying at UMR, the first club he joined was not a technical design group, but rather an assembly of stage performers.
Read More »Peaslee named UMR’s first Iverson Chair of Steelmaking Technology
Dr. Kent Peaslee, Curators’ Teaching Professor of metallurgical engineering at the University of Missouri-Rolla, has been named the F. Kenneth Iverson Chair of Steelmaking Technology at UMR.
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