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Education bill provides funding to complete UMR project
Missouri lawmakers’ passage of legislation to fund capital improvement projects for higher education across the state means a long-delayed construction project on the University of Missouri-Rolla campus can proceed on schedule.
Read More »UMR Lunar Miners to take giant leap with robot
A new design team at the University of Missouri-Rolla will compete for a total of $250,000 on May 12 by putting its autonomous robot in a head-to-head competition against seven other excavators from the United States and Canada.
Read More »UMR to award Chancellor Medal to commencement speaker
The University of Missouri-Rolla will award the UMR Chancellor Medal to its commencement speaker, Dr. Calvin Cobb, during graduation ceremonies Saturday, May 12, at UMR’s Gale Bullman Multi-Purpose Building.
Read More »UMR named Missouri’s first NSA-designated university for cyber-security education
UMR students will soon be eligible for new scholarships and grants related to securing the nation’s information systems, thanks to the university’s designation as a National Center of Academic Excellence in Information Assurance Education (CAEIAE).
Read More »UMR to award honorary professional degrees
The University of Missouri-Rolla will award nine honorary professional degrees during its spring commencement Saturday, May 12.
Read More »UMR team hopes to fly high in Texas
Members of the 2007 Advanced Aero Vehicle Group at the University of Missouri-Rolla are flying their remote-controlled aircraft in the Society of Automotive Engineers’ Aero Design Competition May 4-6 in Fort Worth, Texas.
Read More »Peaslee receives Governor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching
Dr. Kent Peaslee, Curators’ Teaching Professor of metallurgical engineering at the University of Missouri-Rolla and the F. Kenneth Iverson Chair of Steelmaking Technology at UMR, has won the 2007 Governor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching.
Read More »UMR helicopter design team navigates to first-place win
A multidisciplinary team of students from the University of Missouri-Rolla recently beat out Georgia Tech and the University of Alabama-Huntsville to capture a first-place finish with their small unmanned helicopter. The national competition was sponsored by the Redstone Chapter of the American Helicopter Society.
Read More »UMR Jazz Band, Combo to perform May 4
The University of Missouri-Rolla Jazz Band and UMR Jazz Combo will perform in concert Friday, May 4, to mark the end of the current semester. The performance begins at 8 p.m. in Leach Theatre of Castleman Hall, 10th and Main streets, Rolla.
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